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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Nadezhda
Tolokonnikova</span></b></div>
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style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align:
baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Closing Statement </span></b></p>
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margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align:
baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">8 August 2012, </span><span
style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-weight:
bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Khamovnichesky
Courthouse, Moscow</span></b></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Essentially, </span></b><b
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman';
font-size: medium; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; "><b style="font-size: medium;
font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 16px;
vertical-align: baseline; ">it is not three singers from
Pussy Riot who are on trial here. If that were the case,
what’s happening would be totally insignificant. It is
the entire state system of the Russian Federation which
is on trial and which, unfortunately for itself,
thoroughly enjoys advertising its cruelty towards human
beings, its indifference to their honour and dignity,
the very worst that has happened in Russian history to
date. To my deepest regret, this mock trial is close to
the standards of the Stalinist troikas. Thus, we have
our investigator, lawyer and judge. And then, what’s
more, what all three of them do and say and decide is
determined by a political demand for repression. Who is
to blame for the performance at the Cathedral of Christ
the Saviour and for our being put on trial after the
concert? The authoritarian political system is to blame.
What Pussy Riot does is oppositional art or politics
that draws upon the forms art has established. In any
event, it is a form of civil action in circumstances
where basic human rights, civil and political freedoms
are suppressed by the corporate state system.</span></b></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Since the turn of the millennium
many people, relentlessly and methodically flayed alive by
the systematic destruction of liberties, have rebelled.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">We were looking for authentic
genuineness and simplicity and we found them in the holy
foolishness of our punk performances. Passion, openness and
naivety are superior to hypocrisy, cunning and a contrived
decency that conceals crimes. The state’s leaders stand with
saintly expressions in church but, in their deceit, their
sins are far greater than ours. We’ve put on our political
punk concerts because the Russian state system is dominated
by rigidity, closedness and caste and the policies pursued
serve only narrow corporate interests to the extent that
even the air of Russia makes us ill.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">We are absolutely not happy
with—and have been forced into acting and living politically
by—the use of coercive, strong-arm measures to handle social
processes, a situation in which the most important political
institutions are the disciplinary structures of the state -
the security agencies, the army, the police, the special
forces and the accompanying means of ensuring political
stability: prisons, preventive detention and mechanisms to
closely control public behaviour. Nor are we happy with the
enforced civic passivity of the bulk of the population or
the complete domination of executive structures over the
legislature and judiciary. Moreover, we are genuinely
angered by the fear-based and scandalously low standard of
political culture, which is constantly and knowingly
maintained by the state system and its accomplices. Look at
what Patriarch Kirill has to say: “The Orthodox don’t go to
rallies.” We are angered by the appalling weakness of
horizontal relationships within society. We don’t like the
way in which the state system easily manipulates public
opinion through its tight control of the overwhelming
majority of media outlets. A perfect example is the
unprecedentedly shameless campaign against Pussy Riot, based
on the distortion of facts and words, which has appeared in
nearly all the Russian media, apart from the few independent
media there are in this political system.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Even so, I can now state—despite
the fact that we currently have an authoritarian political
situation—that I am seeing this political system collapse to
a certain extent when it comes to the three members of Pussy
Riot, because what the system was counting on, unfortunately
for that system, has not come to pass. Russia as a whole
does not condemn us. Every day more and more people believe
us and believe in us, and think we should be free rather
than behind bars. I can see this from the people I meet. I
meet people who represent the system, who work for the
relevant agencies. I see people who are in prison. And every
day there are more and more people who support us, who hope
for our success and especially for our release, who say our
political act was justified. People tell us, “To start with,
we weren’t sure you could have done this,” but every day
there are more and more people who say, “Time is proving to
us that your political gesture was correct. You have exposed
the cancer in this political system and dealt a blow to a
nest of vipers who then turned on you.” These people are
trying to make life easier for us in whatever way they can
and we are very grateful to them for that...</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">We are grateful to all those who,
free themselves, speak out in our support. There are a vast
number, I know. I know that a huge number of Orthodox people
are standing up for us. They are praying for us outside the
courtroom, for the members of Pussy Riot who are
incarcerated. We’ve seen the little booklets Orthodox people
are handing out with prayers for those in prison. This alone
shows that there isn’t a unified social group of Orthodox
believers as the prosecution is trying to assert. No such
thing exists. More and more believers are starting to defend
Pussy Riot. They don’t think what we did deserves even five
months in detention, much less the three years in prison the
prosecutor would like. And every day, more and more people
realize that if this political system has ganged up to this
extent against three girls for a 30-second performance in
the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, it means the system is
afraid of the truth and afraid of our sincerity and
directness. We haven’t dissembled, not for a second, not for
a minute during this trial, but the other side is
dissembling too much and people can sense it. People can
sense the truth. Truth really does have some kind of
ontological, existential superiority over lies and this is
written in the Bible, in the Old Testament, in particular.
In the end, the ways of truth always triumph over the ways
of wickedness, guile and lies. And with each day that
passes, the ways of truth are more and more triumphant even
though we are still behind bars and are likely to be here a
lot longer yet.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Madonna performed yesterday (7
August). She appeared with “Pussy Riot” written on her back.
More and more people can see that we are being held here
unlawfully and on a completely false charge – I’m
overwhelmed by this. I am overwhelmed that truth really does
triumph over lies even though physically we are here in a
cage. We are freer than the people sitting opposite us for
the prosecution because we can say everything we like, and
we do, but those people sitting there say only what
political censorship allows them to say. They can’t speak
words like “punk prayer” or "Virgin Mary, Banish Putin!”
They can’t say the lines from our punk prayer that have to
do with the political system. Perhaps they think it wouldn’t
be a bad thing to send us to jail because we are rising up
against Putin and his system as well but they can’t say so
because that’s not allowed either. Their mouths are sewn
shut. Unfortunately, they are mere puppets. I hope they
realize this and also take the road to freedom, truth and
sincerity because these are superior to stasis, contrived
decency and hypocrisy. Stasis and the search for truth are
always in opposition to one another and, in this case, at
this trial, we can see people who are trying to find the
truth and people who are trying to enslave those who want to
find the truth.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Humans are beings who always make
mistakes. They are not perfect. They strive for wisdom but
never actually have it. That’s precisely why philosophy came
into being, precisely because philosophers are people who
love wisdom and strive for it, but never actually possess it
and it is what makes them act and think and, ultimately,
live the way they do. This is what made us go into the
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. I think that Christianity,
as I’ve understood it from studying the Old and New
Testaments, supports the search for truth and a constant
overcoming of the self, overcoming what you used to be. It
is not for nothing that Christ associated with prostitutes.
He said we should help those who stumble, saying, “I forgive
them” but for some reason I can’t see any of that at our
trial, which is taking place under the banner of
Christianity. I think the prosecutor is defying
Christianity. The lawyers want nothing to do with the
injured parties. Here’s how I understand this: Two days ago,
Lawyer Taratukhin made a speech in which he wanted everyone
to understand that he does not identify with the people he
is representing. This means he’s not ethically comfortable
representing people who want to send the three members of
Pussy Riot to jail. Why they want to do this, I don’t know.
Perhaps it is their right. The lawyer was embarrassed, the
shouts of “Shame! Executioners!” had got to him, which goes
to show that truth and goodness always triumph over lies and
evil.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">I think some higher powers are
guiding the speeches of the lawyers for the other side when,
time after time, they make mistakes in what they say and
call us the “injured parties”. Almost all the lawyers are
doing it, including Lawyer Pavlova who is very negatively
disposed towards us. Nevertheless, some higher powers are
causing her to say “the injured parties” about us rather
than the people she’s defending, us. I wouldn’t give people
labels. I don’t think there are winners or losers here,
injured parties or accused. We just need to make contact, to
establish a dialogue and a joint search for truth, to seek
wisdom together, to be philosophers together, rather than
stigmatizing and labelling people. This is one of the worst
things people can do and Christ condemned it.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">We have been subjected to abuse
during this trial. Who would have thought that one man and
the state system he controls would once again be capable of
entirely wanton evil? Who would have thought that history
and Stalin’s fairly recent Great Terror, in particular,
would teach us nothing at all? It makes you want to weep to
see how the methods of the medieval inquisition are brought
out by the law-enforcement and judicial system of the
Russian Federation, which is our country. Since the time of
our arrest, however, we can no longer weep. We’ve forgotten
how to cry. At our punk concerts we used to shout out in
desperation to the best of our abilities about the
iniquities of the authorities and now we’ve been robbed of
our voice.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Throughout this whole trial, they
have refused to hear us and I mean <i>hear us</i>, which
involves understanding and, moreover, thinking. I think
every individual should strive to attain wisdom, to be a
philosopher, not just people who happen to have studied
philosophy. That’s nothing. Formal education is nothing in
itself and Lawyer Pavlova is constantly trying to accuse us
of not being sufficiently well-educated. I think though that
the most important thing is the desire to know and to
understand, and that’s something people can do for
themselves outside of educational establishments.The
trappings of academic degrees don’t mean anything in this
instance. Someone can have a vast fund of knowledge and for
all that not be human. Pythagoras said that ‘the learning of
many things does not teach understanding’. Unfortunately,
that’s something we are forced to observe here. We’re just
part of the scenery, a bit of wildlife, just bodies brought
into the courtroom. If, after many days of asking, talking
and doing battle our petitions are examined, they are
inevitably rejected.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">The court, on the other hand—and
unfortunately for us and for our country—listens to the
prosecutor who repeatedly distorts our comments and
statements with impunity in a bid to neutralize them. There
is no attempt to conceal this breach in an adversarial
system. They even seem to be showing it off. On 30<sup>th</sup>
July, the first day of the trial, we presented our response
to the charges against us. Prior to that we were in prison,
in confinement. We can’t do anything there: we can’t make
statements, we can’t film, we don’t have Internet. We can’t
even give our lawyer any papers because that’s banned too.
Our first chance to speak came on 30<sup>th</sup> July. The
document we’d written was read out by defence lawyer Volkova
because the court refused outright to let the defendants
speak. We called for contact and dialogue rather than
conflict and opposition. We reached out a hand to those who,
for some reason, assume we are their enemies. In response
they laughed at us and spat in our outstretched hands.
“You’re disingenuous,” they told us. But they needn’t have
bothered. Don’t judge others by your own standards. We were,
as always, sincere in saying exactly what we thought, out of
childish naïvety, sure, but we don’t regret anything we
said, even on that day. We are reviled but we do not intend
to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do
not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy
to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am
weak, then I am strong.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Listen to us rather than to Arkady
Mamontov talking about us. Don’t twist and distort
everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact
with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin’s and
the Patriarch’s. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the
end, words will shatter concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, “the
Word is more ancient than concrete. The Word is not to be
taken lightly. In just the same way, noble people will
suddenly spring up and their word will shatter concrete.”</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Katya, Masha and I are in jail but
I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated. Just as the
dissidents weren’t defeated. When they disappeared into
psychiatric hospitals and prisons, they passed judgement on
the country. The art of creating an image of an era knows no
winners or losers. The O<span
style="text-transform:uppercase;">beriu</span> poets
remained artists to the very end, impossible to explain or
understand. They were purged in 1937. Vvedensky wrote: “We
like what can’t be understood, What can’t be explained is
our friend.” According to the death certificate, Aleksandr
Vvedensky died on 20 December 1941. We don’t know the cause,
whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or a
bullet from a guard. It was somewhere on the railway line
between Voronezh and Kazan. Pussy Riot are Vvedensky’s
disciples and his heirs. His principle of ‘bad rhyme’ is our
own. He wrote: “It happens that two rhymes will come into
your head, a good one and a bad one and I choose the bad
one. It will be the right one.” What can’t be explained is
our friend. The elitist, sophisticated occupations of the <span
style="text-transform:uppercase;">Oberiu</span> poets,
their search for sense at the edge of meaning was ultimately
realized at the cost of their lives, swept away in the
senseless Great Terror that’s impossible to explain. At the
cost of their own lives, the <span
style="text-transform:uppercase;">Oberiu</span> poets
unintentionally demonstrated that their feeling of
meaninglessness and alogism as the raw nerve of the period
was correct, but at the same time led art into the realm of
history. The cost of taking part in creating history is
always staggeringly high for people, for their very lives.
But that taking part is the very spice of human life. Being
poor while bestowing riches on many; having nothing but
possessing everything. It is believed that the OBERIU
dissidents are dead, but they live on. They are persecuted
but they do not die.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Do you remember why the young
Dostoyevsky was given the death sentence? All he had done
was to get carried away with socialist theories—and at the
Friday meetings of a friendly circle of free thinkers at
Petrashevsky’s, he became acquainted with works by Charles
Fourier and George Sand. At one of the last meetings, he
read out Belinsky’s letter to Gogol, which was packed,
according to the court, and, please note, “with childish
utterances against the Orthodox Church and the supreme
authorities”. After all his preparations for the death
penalty and ten dreadful, impossibly frightening minutes
waiting to die, as Dostoyevsky himself put it, the
announcement came that his sentence had been commuted to
four years hard labour followed by military service.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Socrates was accused of corrupting
youth through his philosophical discourses and of not
recognizing the gods of Athens. Socrates had a connection to
a divine inner voice and was by no means a theomachist,
something he often said himself. What did that matter,
however, when he had angered the influential people of the
city with his critical, dialectical and unprejudiced
thinking? Socrates was sentenced to death and, refusing to
run away, although he was given that option, he calmly drank
down a cup of hemlock and died.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Have you forgotten the
circumstances under which Stephen, follower of the Apostles,
ended his earthly life? “Then they secretly induced men to
say, ‘We have heard him speak blasphemous words against
Moses and against God.’ And they stirred up the people, the
elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and dragged
him away, and brought him before the Council. And they put
forward false witnesses who said, ‘This man incessantly
speaks against this holy place, and the Law.’” He was found
guilty and stoned to death.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">And I hope everyone remembers what
the Jews said to Christ: “We're stoning you not for any good
work, but for blasphemy.” And finally it would be well worth
remembering this description of Christ: “He is possessed of
a demon and out of his mind.”</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">I believe that if leaders, tsars,
elders, presidents and prime ministers, the people and the
judges really understood what “I desire mercy, not
sacrifice” meant, they would not condemn the innocent. Our
leaders are currently in a hurry only to condemn and not at
all to show mercy. Incidentally, we thank Dmitry
Anatolievich Medvedev for his latest wonderful aphorism. If
Medvedev gave his presidency the slogan: “Freedom is better
than non-freedom”, then, thanks to Medvedev’s felicitous
saying, Putin’s third term has a good chance of being known
by a new aphorism: “Prison is better than stoning.”</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">I would like you to think carefully
about the following reflection by Montaigne from his <i>Essays
</i>written in the 16<sup>th</sup> century. He wrote: “You
are holding your opinions in too high a regard if you burn
people alive for them.” Is it worth accusing people and
putting them in jail on the basis of totally unfounded
conjectures by the prosecution?</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Since in actual fact we never were,
and are not, motivated by religious hatred and hostility,
there is nothing left for our accusers to do other than to
draw on the aid of false witnesses. One of them, Motilda
Ivashchenko, was ashamed and didn’t show up in court. That
left false witness by [Vsevolod] Troitsky, [Igor] Ponkin and
Mrs [Vera] Abramenkova. And there is no evidence of any
hatred or enmity on our part other than this expert
examination. For this reason, if it is honourable and just,
the court must rule the evidence inadmissible because it is
not a strictly scientific or objective text but a filthy,
lying bit of paper from the medieval days of the
inquisition. There is no other evidence that can even
remotely suggest a motive.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">The prosecution is reluctant to
produce excerpts from the texts of Pussy Riot interviews
because they are primary evidence of this lack of motive.
For the umpteenth time, I will quote this excerpt. I think
it’s important. It was from an interview with “Russky
Reporter”, given the day after the concert at the Cathedral
of Christ the Saviour: “Our attitude toward religion, and
toward Orthodoxy in particular, is one of respect, and for
this very reason we are distressed that the great and
luminous Christian philosophy is being used so shabbily. We
are very angry that at this abuse of the sublime”. It still
makes us angry and we find it very painful to watch.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 16pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">The lack on our part of any show of
hatred or enmity has been attested by all the character
witnesses examined by the defence. In addition to all the
other character statements, I’d like you to consider the
findings of the investigation’s psychiatric and
psychological tests I had to undergo in detention. The
expert’s findings were as follows: the values to which I am
committed in my life are justice, mutual respect, humanity,
equality and freedom. That’s what the expert said, someone
who doesn’t know me and Investigator Ranchenko would
probably have very much liked him to write something
different. It would appear, however, that there are more
people who love and value the truth, and the Bible’s right
about that.</span></b></p>
<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new
roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Finally</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">I</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">’</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">d</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">like</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">to</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">quote</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">a</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">Pussy</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">Riot</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">song</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">because</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">strange</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">as</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">it</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">may</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">seem</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">all</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">our</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">songs</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">have</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">turned</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">out</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">to</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">be</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">prophetic</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">including</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">the</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">one</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">that</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">says</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">: “</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">The</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">KGB</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">chief</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">their</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">number</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">one</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">saint</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">will</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">escort</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">protestors</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">off</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">to</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">jail</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">” – that’s about us. </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">What</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">I’d like</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">to</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">quote</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">now</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">however</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">is</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">the</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">next</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">line</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">: “</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">Open</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">the</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">doors</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">off with the military insignia</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">, </span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">join</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">us</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">in</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">a</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">taste</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">of</span></span> <span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">freedom.</span></span><span
style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; "><span
style="font-size: 12pt; ">”<br>
<br>
</span></span></span>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;
line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; "><span
style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align:
baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span
style="color:#000000;">(Project team: Agnes Parker:
translation/Eja Werner: coordination</span>)</span></b></p>
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