caption birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
mark feygin samara , russia russian yes 3 june 1971 state duma deputy , defense of pussy riot mark feygin
 mark feygin lawyer , politician
mark feygin

mark feygin -lrb- born 3 june 1971 -rrb- is a russian lawyer and politician .
he served from january 1994 to december 1995 as a deputy of the state duma and was the vice mayor of samara .
in 2011 and 2012 , feygin was active in opposition to president vladimir putin , and announced that he was forming an opposition party .
in 2012 , feygin served as one of three lawyers for pussy riot , a punk band arrested for an unauthorized performance in moscow 's cathedral of christ the savior .
the band 's trial became an international `` cause célèbre '' during their trial on charges of hooliganism .
on 1 october 2012 , an appellate hearing was postponed in the moscow city court after band member yekaterina samutsevich informed a panel of three judges that she wished to terminate the representation of her defense attorneys , stating , `` my position in the criminal case does not coincide with their position . ''
samutsevich 's new lawyer , irina khrunova , argued that her client had not in fact committed the acts of hooliganism in the church as she was prevented from accessing the soleas by church security .
the court appeared to accept this argument , and released samutsevich on two years probation .
however , the judges rejected the appeals of nadezhda tolokonnikova and maria alyokhina , upholding their convictions and sentences .
on 19 november , feygin and the two other lawyers for pussy riot withdrew from the case prior to tolokonnikova 's appeal , stating that they felt the court would be more likely to grant it if they were no longer a part of the defense .
samutsevich criticized the original legal team for allegedly using the trial for personal publicity rather than securing the release of the defendants .
on 21 november , samutsevich 's lawyer told the press that samutsevich was considering requesting that feygin and the other original lawyers be disbarred for failing to return her passport and other belongings .
feygin responded via twitter that samutsevich was part of a `` defamation campaign organized by the authorities '' , while another member of the legal team , violeta volkova , responded that the claims were `` part of an agreement that allowed her to break free of the case '' .
on 21 january 2013 , feygin , volkova , and nicholas polozov filed suit against khrunova and `` kommersant '' for defamation .
this suit was rejected by the tverskoi district court on 20 august 2013 .
feygin also defended leonid razvozzhayev , an opposition political aide who accused russian authorities of having kidnapped him from kiev , ukraine to face terrorism charges .
since 11 june 2014 feygin also defends nadiya savchenko , an ukrainian air-force pilot who was captured by pro-russian insurgents during the 2014 insurgency in donbass -lrb- in eastern ukraine -rrb- and who is charged and held in russia with the killing of two russian journalists .
