Pussy Riot’s former lawyer will defend the captured Ukrainian pilot who now sits in a Russian jail. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock.
Mark Feygin, the lawyer who came to prominence defending members of the Russian opposition, seems to have picked a new cause—and it may have political consequences that eclipse even the effects of the Pussy Riot trial. On July 11, he proclaimed that he would be the new defense lawyer for Nadezhda Savchenko, the Ukrainian air-force pilot captured by separatists in Ukraine and now detained in Russia.
Итак, я защищаю Надежду Савченко. С сегодняшнего дня.
— Mark Feygin (@mark_feygin) July 11, 2014
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Source: Global Voices
