Municipal deputy and Pussy Riot member Lyusya Stein left Russia. The “We Can Explain” telegram channel is about this.
reports She made this decision in connection with the outbreak of war with Ukraine. “I’m tired of the repressions against me and my loved ones, but I was ready to endure it, but on February 24 everything changed. After the start of the war, I felt physically ill being in Moscow, where there was a complete feeling that a swastika was about to appear on your forehead,” “We Can Explain” quotes her as saying.
The telegram channel also writes that another Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, who is serving a sentence of restriction of freedom, cut off her electronic bracelet. “I have experienced a range of strong emotions in the form of anger, disappointment and pain at what is being done to my country and what is being done to other countries in the name of my country. I took the electronic bracelet and cut it off, after which I notified the inspector. A receipt was taken from me with an obligation to compensate for the cost of the bracelet after the inspector announced this cost to me,” she said. Because of this act, the Federal Penitentiary Service threatened the girl with a replacement sentence for a real term. On April 5, the prosecutor's office filed a corresponding petition with the court.
it became known - In 2021 and was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary matter”. They were found guilty of attempting to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) in connection with calls to go to a rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny. Lyusya Stein Maria Alyokhina - “Sanitation Case” The case was opened after the January 2021 protests in support of Alexei Navalny. According to the Moscow authorities, the rally was attended by 20 people under surveillance by the Social Monitoring system due to infection or contact with coronavirus patients. Charges were brought against those who, according to the investigation, called for participation in the protests, as well as Dani Akel, who, allegedly responding to these calls, came to the rally, despite the fact that he was sick with COVID-19. In addition to Akel, 10 oppositionists were involved in the case—later one of them, municipal deputy Konstantin Jankauskas, was charged. The sentences were , , , , , , , , and . filmed Tribute to Akel Lyubov Sobol Kira Yarmysh Nikolay Lyaskin Oleg Navalny Oleg Stepanov Lyusa Stein Dmitry Baranovsky Maria Alekhina Anastasia Vasilyeva