Here’s your chance to ask Yekaterina “Katia” Samutsevich — one of the three members of Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot who were jailed on “hooliganism” charges for performing a “punk prayer” against Vladimir Putin on the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral — anything you want.
Katia, 30, was released last October after switching lawyers and arguing that she was tackled by a security guard before participating in the performance so didn’t actually dance in front of the altar — that’s the oh-so-blasphemous move that really offended Orthodox higher-ups, so they say. She’s still on probation. Her two co-defendants, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, are currently toiling away in prison camps; they’ve been incarcerated for over a year. No one has been able to contact them lately, according to Rob Lieber, an organizer with FreePussyRiot.org.