The members of the notorious punk band Pussy Riot staged their action at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior themselves. No one masterminded the infamous act, Ekaterina Samutsevich stated after her release Wednesday. “Our act at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior had no instigators,” she said in an interview with Interfax.
Samutsevich explained that the band was working on the do-it-all-yourself principle. Meanwhile, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who are still jailed, wrote a letter, which stated that an activist of art group “Voina” Pyotr Verzilov “quasi-fraudulently occupied the activities of Pussy Riot.”
“All the participants are authors of the band. We have no instigators, no organizers and no producers,” Samutsevich told Interfax. She stated that the band did not receive any money from anyone for its acts.
Previously, there were a number of theories proposed about those standing behind the activities of the notorious band. In September, for example, it was said that the act at the Moscow cathedral was organized by disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Ekaterina Samutsevich told Interfax that she would be helping her two friends, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who remained behind bars. “I will try to raise money for the girls and bring them food and other things,” she said.