Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Толоконникова Надежда Андреевна 1989 г.р.) is artist of the group Pussy Riot, known with explicit protest against hypocrisy of edro and personally, against that of  Vladimir Putin.

In 2012, for their protests, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were jailed; the formal reason for the jailing is hooliganism; in such a way the judge Marina Syrova had qualified their Punk-moleben in the orthodox commercial center XXC in Moscow.

Jailing of artists caused avalanche of publications with critics of Kiril Gundiaev, Vladimir Putin, and officials performed the criminal investigation; the court is qualified as political.

Position of leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church (РПЦ) with respect to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and her colleagues is qualified as similar to that of the medieval Inquisition and that of the top priest Caiafas mentioned in the Bible. This similarity is considered in the parody Kaiafa and Gundiaev (in Russian) .

December 2012, for her explicit civil position, together with Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is listed among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers." .

Keywords
Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 2012.08.08.Last talks at the Pussy Riot trial, XXC, Russia, Панк-молебен