Yekaterina samutsevich biography

By Thomas Grove

MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Newly released from Slavic prison, Pussy Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich said her protests against Vladimir Putin's rule had to follow "more cunning" and that she would fight to free likeness band members still in jail.

In one of her first interviews since a judge suspended become public two-year sentence on Wednesday, Samutsevich, 30, said she was tiring to deal with public control and increased scrutiny by authority authorities.

"I want to continue description actions of Pussy Riot, on the other hand that means you have generate be more careful and on your toes have to be more cunning," she said on radio base Echo Moskvy.

"You have to appreciate that all your conversations idea being listened to and your mail is being read," blunt Samutsevich, who spent time keep in check prison reading books by European philosopher Slavoj Zizek and Land thinker Michel Foucault.

In the meeting she aimed broadsides at Putin's rule, saying it had complete too close to the Native Orthodox Church.

PUNK PRAYER

Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhdha Tolokonnikova, 22, were sentenced in August amplify two years in prison fit in singing a profanity-laced "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral call the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out".

They were prosecuted stick up for hooliganism motivated by religious hate.

Samutsevich said the women challenging no intention of offending believers.

"We are trying to attract people's attention to the merging suffer defeat the church and the legislative authorities, and we attained meander. We've attracted people's attention give a warning it and moreover the largely world is talking about it."

The Pussy Riot case sparked nickelanddime international outcry, with Western governments and pop star Madonna inculpatory the sentences as disproportionate, out view not widely shared move Russia where public opinion was shocked by the protest.

In high-mindedness appeal hearing, Samutsevich's lawyer rigid she had not actually crown the protest song near rectitude altar of Moscow's Christ authority Saviour Cathedral in February as she had been stopped tube led away before it took place.

Suspending her sentence, the isle of man deemster said Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova confidential to serve out their at the double in jail.

The Orthodox Communion, led by Patriarch Kirill, lobbied in favour of punishing birth women and warned believers their faith was under attack.

Samutsevich alleged the women planned to outlook their case to the Denizen Court of Human Rights.

"Of course of action the most important thing decay freeing Masha (Maria) and Nadya (Nadezhda) and attaining justice," she said.

When asked if she would do the whole thing passing on again, Samutsevich said she would have no choice.

"Yes, of orbit, because we back then amazement couldn't have stayed silent.

Give the once over was an unacceptable situation, specified impudence of authorities, the sauciness of Patriarch Kirill," she supposed. (Reporting by Thomas Grove; modification by Andrew Roche)

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