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The chronicle of the absurd
From under the blocks, or eight days that shocked the world
Zoya Svetova
In the Khamovnichesky court, in the proceeding in the case, Pussy Riot was judged for a word. As in the 70-80s of the last century in the USSR. The right to dissent the right to restructure: the youngest of them, Nadia Tolokonnikova, was born when censorship was prohibited, she was 22, in the year of her birth, the 6th article of the USSR Constitution on the “leading and guiding role of the CPSU”. The eldest, Katya Samutsevich, 30: In the year of her birth, they still planted in full swing, but when she went to school, they already talked about repressions in the textbooks, and the natives of the KGB were still embarrassed by their belonging to Lubyanka. Masha Alekhina (she was 24) graduated from school in the year when Anna Politkovskaya was killed. Killed for a word. All three of the families of the Soviet intelligentsia, which the authorities scolded in the kitchens, but for which an individual protest was banned; For the parents of all three girls, their radicalism was a surprise, as well as a speech in court, which were not so much the last word of the defendants as bright, quite political manifestos. “This court is not just an evil grotesque mask, it is a“ face ”of a conversation with a person in our country” - this is from Alekhina’s speech. “Orthodox culture belongs not only to the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch and Putin, it may be on the side of the civilian rebellion and protest moods in Russia,” said Samutsevich. “We are freer than all these people who are sitting opposite us on the side of the prosecution, because we can say everything we want, and we say everything we want,” Tolokonnikova chopped, looking at her shys. 
The state prosecutor and the judge behaved in the best traditions of the Stalinist demonstration processes. The defendants were appealed to Socrates, Montaenya, Solzhenitsyn, Bukovsky, Actual Art. They quoted the Old and New Testament, explaining in detail why they did not like how Patriarch Kirill campaigned his flock to vote in the presidential election for Vladimir Putin. They appealed to world culture, the accusation - to theses of medieval documents like the Trull Cathedral of the VII century. "
The transformation of the defendants in the case of punk-grab in the XXS into a new person of opposition Russia was one of the main surprises of the process in the Hamovnican Court
“The transformation of the defendants in the case of punk-grab in the XXS into a new face of opposition Russia was one of the main surprises of the process in the Khamovnichesky court.
Over the 12 years of Putin’s reign, we were intensively inspired that the younger generation was represented exclusively by “ours” and “young guard”. And we did not notice how other young people rose from under the full growth. It was they, not hoping for the state, extinguished the fires in the summer of 2010, entered Sakharov and Bolotnaya in December 2011 and in May 2012, drove tons of humanitarian aid in Crimean in July 2012. They are not afraid of Putin, nor prison, nor Mordovian camps of Dubravlag. The whole world hears them-from the ministers of the British government to the Madonna pop star. Whether Putin heard them - we will find out on August 17, when the judge Syrov will be sentenced.
All eight days of The New Times led Twitter-broadcast from the courtroom: what was happening there, even struck the types of judicial reporters. What can we say about those who first ended up in Hamsud, such as journalist Andrei Loshak and playwright Elena Gremin - their reports in front of you.
The chronicle of the absurd
Z0.07.12. Prosecutor Nikiforov asks the victim of Sokologorskaya: "Is the word" feminism "rude?" The victim: "In the temple - yes."
07/31/12. Lawyer Volkova: "The defendants are not allowed to sleep or eat." The lawyer of the victims Pavlov: "In court, everyone is on equal terms."
1.08.12. When viewing the video, the witness of the accusation of acne became "physically bad." “Pussy Riot” is translated as “purulent revelry,” he said.
2.08.12. “In the ass culture, we go to the prosecutor’s office,” the judge of Syrov reads a sheet from the case file.
08/08/12. The judge refuses to call the defense witness-ITAR-TASS Photocor Dmitry Aleshkovsky, who was an eyewitness to Punk-Molebn in the XXH.
08/08/12. Lawyer Volkova: "I declare the seventh divert the judge." The lawyer of the victims Pavlov: “The process is delayed. I ask you to take measures of judicial response. ”
7.08.12. Orthodox entrepreneur Alexei Sobolev stands near the court: "This process turns Orthodox believers into Orthodox idiots."
08/08/12. The last word of the defendants. Masha Alekhina: "We are innocent - the whole world speaks of this."
Interviews from the pre -trial detention centerMaria Alekhina: "Our action raised the problems of fraining the Russian Orthodox Church and the special services"
Ekaterina Samutsevich: "I am engaged in political art"
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: "The process in our case reminds me of the trial of Socrates"