Mother of Maria Alekhina told The New Times about her daughter and her attitude to the process The programmist engineer Natalya Sergeevna Alekhina is very similar to her daughter: the same perky and at the same time a gentle smile, blue eyes. She does not miss a single court session.

On July 2, at his concert in Moscow, the group’s vocalist sang in the Pussy Riot mask, and at the end of the concert they sang We Care a Lot - “We are very preoccupied”

On August 2, he wrote to Radio Liberty: “I can forgive the church - to the rulers and the court - I advise you to let the girls, I wish to return home to parents and children soon.”

The “godfather” of Punk rock, on the T-shirt, which she held in her hands on August 2 during a concert in Oslo, was written: “Putin was wet. Freedom Pussy Riot. "

Today is exactly 5 months, as Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, arrested on March 3, are in prison and will sit there, according to the last court decision, until January 13, 2013 in 40 seconds of the protest in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Vladimir Putin, winner of the black belt in judo, visited the Olympic London on August 2. The last time in the British Isles he was 7 years ago This was even before the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, but after the disagreement with the charismatic British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who once friendly called Putin to his native Scotland.

On August 10, it would have turned 75 to Anatoly Sobchak, the first democratically elected mayor of Leningrad, to whom the city owes the return of its historical name-St. Petersburg. It was one of the most striking politicians of the late 1980s-the first half of the 1990s. Sobchak’s speeches at the congresses of people's deputies in the days of the USSR forever went down in history.

On August 3, he wrote on his Twitter: "Mr. Putin ... Pussy Riot ... Free them." And attached a video to his twitt with the performance of the group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

On his Twitter, which is read 4.6 million, he wrote on July 31: “I have to interrupt your twitter-free one to call you to do everything to help Pussy Riot”

On July 25, before the concert in Moscow: “The dissent is legitimate and is an integral right in any democracy, and modern politicians should be tolerant of this fact.”

In an interview with the BBC on August 1: “Three girls sing, and they are sent to prison ... I think any person who has some kind of philanthropy and common sense sees that the reaction to what they did is absurd and, possibly, God-hustle. Because if you look at the acts of Jesus, especially at how he kicked out changed from the temple, he would probably have expelled half of the Orthodox priests. ”

On July 29, he wrote to the girls in prison: “Nadia, Katya, Masha. You have the right to your own prayers - from the heart. I hope you will be released very, very soon. We all follow this. ”

On August 3, he wrote on his Twitter: "Mr. Putin ... Pussy Riot ... Free them." And attached a video to his twitt with the performance of the group in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

On July 26, in an interview with NTV, she said: "I am sorry that the girls are in prison."

As well as Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) and others-only 12 British rock and pop musicians on August 2, on the eve of the visit to London President Putin, published an open letter in English The Times, which said: “The right to dissent exists in any democratic state ... He threatens seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism based on religious hatred, which seems absurd to us, completely inconsistently. ” Pete Townsend Jarvis Cocker Neil Tennant