Nadeschda Andrejewna Tolokonnikowa

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Nadeschda Andrejewna Tolokonnikowa ( Russian: Наде́жда Андре́евна Толоко́нникова ; born November 7, 1989 in Norilsk , Soviet Union ) is a Russian political activist and performance artist . She gained international fame as a member of Pussy Riot .

Life

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova grew up with her paternal grandmother in Moscow from the age of four, who particularly influenced her political stance. As a child she was very shy and introverted. After her imprisonment and conviction in public, she was fully supported by her father Andrej, with whom she has a very close relationship. He visited her while she was in custody and brought her a portrait of Our Lady : “She was important to me because my father and I have always maintained a strong tradition in our family: Whenever we go to church together, we have an icon bought, which we particularly liked. Over time, a real collection of icons has come together in our home. If you will, that's where my spiritual roots lie. "

Tolokonnikova and Verilov at a rally in June 2007

Tolokonnikova studied philosophy at Moscow's Lomonosov University . She is the mother of a daughter (* 2008) and was married to the artist and political activist Pyotr Wersilow , whom she met at the beginning of her studies. In response to allegations that she and her husband neglected their daughter because of their political actions and took them to demonstrations, Tolokonnikova replied in an interview: “You would never ask a man such a question ... Behind this is a deeply paternalistic view. Attempts are still being made to reduce women to their private lives, to husbands and children, home and hearth. Certainly every professionally active woman makes compromises with her children. As a political activist, it is no different for me than for business women, of whom, thank God, there are more and more in Russia. Or with a minister. And last but not least, we are fighting for changes so that our children can live in a better Russia one day. "

On December 30, 2021, Tolokonnikova was placed on the list of " foreign agents ".

Artist collective Woina

Tolokonnikowa was a member of the Voina collective from 2007 to 2011 , with which she took part in numerous public, mostly anti-government actions. She and other activists tried, among other things, to interrupt the trial of the then director of the Sakharov Center , Yuri Samodurov, by performing a satirical song in the courtroom. In the spring of 2008, one day before the election of Dmitri Medvedev , Tolokonnikova was pregnant with her husband and other Voina members in a performance in the Biological Museum in Moscow - "Fuck in support of the bear's successor," commented two activists on the protest on a hand-painted poster. "Bärchen" is a corruption of the name Medvedev in Russian. Photos and videos of the action dominated the Russian blogger websites. The Scientific Council of the Philosophical Faculty of Lomonosov University publicly distanced itself. She was involved, among other things, in actions on the day of the October Revolution in November 2008 and in early 2009 in the action "A present for Luzhkov", in which symbolically secured on climbing harnesses, some Uzbek guest workers and gays were symbolically hung in a Russian supermarket as a reaction on the anti-gay statements made by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the murders of guest workers from Central Asia. In 2011 Tolokonnikova took part in an action in which she and other Voina activists overpowered policewomen on duty and forced them to kiss. "We want to make people think," said Tolokonnikova in an interview in 2009, "we want to desacralize the regime," added her husband.

Pussy Riot

Tolokonnikova in Moscow in early February 2012

Tolokonnikova has been an active member of Pussy Riot since October 2011 . In the run-up to the 2012 Russian presidential election, she took part in performance actions critical of Putin. The group attracted worldwide attention with the so-called “punk prayer” against the Russian patriarch Kyrill I and Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2012 in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. The preparations for the “punk prayer” and the trial in the Russian-American documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and the Russian independent production Pussy vs. Putin as well as in the feature film The Moscow Trials were documented .

Arrest and conviction

Tolokonnikova in June 2012

Because of this action, Tolokonnikova was taken into custody along with Maria Aliochina and Yekaterina Samuzewitsch . The three activists were charged with gross violation of public order ( hooliganism ) under Section 213 of the Russian Criminal Code. Tolokonnikova and Alyochina went on a two-week hunger strike after their lawyers were given very limited access to the case file .

In July 2012, the investigation was ended and charges were brought. On 17 August 2012, they were convicted of "hooliganism from religious hatred," the three activists while on August 27, 2012 unsuccessfully calling men casting. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova stated in her closing statement:

“Basically, the three singers in the Pussy Riot group are not being negotiated in this process. If it were so, the events here would have absolutely no meaning. This is a negotiation of the entire state system of the Russian Federation, which, to its own misfortune, in its cruelty to the people, its indifference to their honor and dignity, likes to quote the worst that has ever happened in Russian history. This imitation of legal proceedings comes close to the pattern of the " court troics " of the Stalin era . "

Despite persistent solidarity rallies after the arrest and conviction, the majority of the Russian public saw the appearance of Pussy Riot in the Church of Christ the Redeemer negatively and the court verdict was largely approved.

On the other hand, protests from human rights organizations, politicians and artists took place worldwide against the court proceedings and the judgment, including an open letter from 100 internationally known artists on July 23, 2013 calling for the activists to be released.

Penal camps and hunger strikes

Tolokonnikova in Moscow in early August 2012

Tolokonnikova was sentenced to two years in prison in the IK-14 prison camp for women in Mordovia , around 500 kilometers away from her daughter who lives in Moscow. "I do not acknowledge my guilt and I will never acknowledge it", she will "fight to the end against her conviction and if necessary bring her case to the Supreme Court of the country [...] she has principles and will defend them", Tolokonnikova said after her April 2013 application for early release was rejected in the second instance at the end of July 2013.

After repeated assaults by fellow prisoners and guards, she went on another hunger strike on September 23, 2013, also to protest against the poor prison conditions for her and her fellow prisoners, as she explained in an open letter. According to Tolokonnikova, the imprisoned women are forced to work up to 17 hours a day. She complained several times and was threatened with death by the prison director. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch assesses Tolokonnikowas allegations as "extremely serious and worrying". After her health deteriorated massively, Tolokonnikova was transferred from the infirmary to the hospital attached to the detention center on September 29, 2013.

After being transferred back to the IK-14 prison camp, she resumed her hunger strike in early October 2013. The Russian prison authorities announced on October 18, 2013 that Tolokonnikova would be serving her two-year prison term until March 2014 in another prison camp because of her “complaints about threats from fellow prisoners and guards” . On November 2, 2013, on the occasion of a demonstration against the continued imprisonment of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in the IK-14 prison camp, Pyotr Verilov mentioned that he had not had any contact with his wife or her family for eleven days since they were transferred. On November 5, 2013, it became known that Tolokonnikowa was being housed in the IK-50 penal camp in the Siberian town of Nizhny Ingasch , more than 4,000 kilometers from her daughter . On November 7, 2013, her defense attorney applied to the Russian Supreme Court for immediate release: “We are demanding that the sentence be overturned,” Irina Chrounova is quoted as saying, “She herself does not know exactly where Tolokonnikova is ... There are no deadlines for the transfer of prisoners, so it can take a long time ”. Amnesty International had requested the day before that Tolokonnikova's family should be informed “immediately” of Tolokonnikova's location, “we fear that they have been sanctioned for complaining”. After Wersilow had last spoken to her six weeks ago, he was able to call his wife on November 14, 2013 and visit her in Nizhny Ingasch. Meanwhile, her daughter lived with her grandparents in Moscow.

Review of the court ruling

In early December 2013, the Supreme Court ordered the review of the sentences against the imprisonment of Maria Alyochina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. The “hatred” aspect mentioned in the judgment had not been sufficiently proven, ruled Russia's Supreme Court and referred the judgment back to the competent Moscow court. In addition, "neither the young age of the defendants, their family situation nor the non-violence of their actions were taken into account" - Aljochina and Tolokonnikova are mothers of small children, which would have meant a postponement under Russian law. “In addition, there is no valid motive for the indictment. Accordingly, the written version of the judgment did not agree with the judgment read out in the courtroom in August 2012. “For Tolokonnikova and Alyochina, the order of the Supreme Court was an important partial success after the judiciary had repeatedly been accused of politically controlled arbitrariness. Russian Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Petrovich Lukin , who lodged the complaint with the Supreme Court on behalf of the detained activists, and Pussy Riot's lawyers hoped for the women to be released soon.

pardon

The Duma , advised on 17 December 2013 before the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi, on an amnesty for 25,000 Russian prisoners, which resulted in the Pussy Riot activists should be released regardless of the review of the judgment. The official reason for the amnesty was the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution on December 12th. At a press conference on December 19, 2013, Putin confirmed that the amnesty also applies to the imprisoned Pussy Riot members; How quickly this would be implemented was initially not known. Speaking of Pussy Riot, the Russian President said at the annual press conference: “I am not sorry that you ended up in a detention center, even if that is not a good thing. I feel sorry for them that they even committed this atrocity, which I believe demeans women. The amnesty is also not a review of the verdict, ”stressed Putin. "In theory, you can still come out today," said Irina Chrunova, the lawyer for Alyochina and Tolokonnikova, before Putin's announcement. The relatives of the two activists then traveled to the respective prison camps.

release

A few hours after Maria Aljochina, on the morning of December 23, 2013, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was also released. "It's not a humanitarian act, it's a PR trick," said Aljochina to the Russian television broadcaster Doschd with regard to the amnesty law. International experts see the amnesty on the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution as an attempt by Putin to "appease critics in the West" before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. "Russia is built on the model of a penal colony," Tolokonnikova told journalists shortly after her release Working with Aljochina primarily for the rights of prisoners imprisoned in Russia. Tolokonnikova told television that she saw in Aljochinas and her “release just a few months before the expiry of her prison sentence nothing more than a cosmetic measure by Putin before the Olympic Games in Sochi” and that she “called on the Europeans to boycott the Games, to be honest and not to sell yourself for Russian oil and gas . "

The question of rehabilitation based on the appeal supported by the Supreme Court and the rejection of the first-instance judgment remains open .

Winter Olympics in Sochi

Arrested on February 17, 2014

After Tolokonnikova had already called for a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Sochi when she was released , she announced on February 18, 2014 that she had been imprisoned together with Alyochina and a third activist in Sochi. we went for a walk in Sochi ... with the aim of staging a pussy riot protest. The song is titled: 'Putin will teach you to love your motherland'. "Aljochina also confirmed via Twitter that she had been arrested: when she was arrested in the early afternoon of February 17th, the security forces had used violence. During the course of February 18, the activists from the police station at the Olympic Park were released. The women are accused of theft , said Semyon Simonov, the head of the local branch of the human rights organization Memorial , who said he was present at the arrest. Evgeni Feldman, a journalist with the Novaya Gazeta newspaper , also confirmed the arrest. Three of the seven arrested were released on February 18, including Tolokonnikova and Alyochina, according to a reporter from the Agence France-Presse news agency . Evgeni Feldman confirmed his release and that of the other government critics via Twitter. Allegedly the allegation was made by a hotel; According to official sources, they were arrested in order to question them as a witness to a theft in the hotel where they were staying. Tolokonnikova had announced an action in Sochi via Twitter.

Assault by a militia belonging to the Russian security forces

On February 19, 2014, seven Pussy Riot members were assaulted by a militia from the Russian security forces while preparing to perform in the Sochi Olympic Park . About ten militiamen stopped the activists' attempt to perform a protest song in front of an Olympic poster in Sochi when five women and a man put on the ski hats typical of Pussy Riot actions and took out a guitar and a microphone. One officer used pepper spray and another lashed out with a "horse whip" . Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was beaten while lying on the ground by a militiaman with a so-called Kantschu according to published pictures ; one man involved in the performance had a blood-covered face after the assault, which was confirmed by a journalist from the Associated Press in addition to photographs and video recordings . Alyochina and Tolokonnikova were hospitalized and discharged the following day.

Governor Alexander Tkachev publicly commented on February 19, 2014: “The ideas of this group are not supported by the overwhelming majority of the population. Nevertheless, all guilty parties involved in this incident should be punished. ”He announced a careful investigation .

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was "very concerned" about the attack, as IOC spokesman Mark Adams said on February 20, 2014. He stressed that information about the incident had been requested but that responsibility was not with the IOC. According to his information, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory has already apologized for the actions of the security forces. The fact that in the video of the protest song “Putin wants to teach you love for the motherland ” the activists can be seen in front of the Olympic rings aroused his displeasure: “It's a shame how the Olympic Games were abused as a political stage,” explained Adams, but also that this assessment refers to both sides .

Protest video from the Olympic city

The protest video from the Olympic city, entitled “Putin will teach you to love your homeland”, is highlighted with pictures of the group's actions in Sochi, including scenes of the attack. "Your treatment in Sochi is symptomatic of the suppression of dissidents in Russia," said Tolokonnikova at a press conference on February 20, 2014 in Sochi, "... the Olympic Games have turned the police state into a totalitarian regime with anticipatory arrests. The Olympic Games created an environment of massive human rights violations in Russia. We are forbidden to express our opinion here. ”The protests of the past week are part of an active boycott of the games. In the video they incorporated their experiences in Sochi: “Sochi cordoned off / Mount Olympus under observation / by rifles and masses of police officers”, is mentioned in the text. "Are you serious? Do the police in Russia really whip Pussy Riot for making music on the street, ” Madonna commented on Twitter about the actions of the security forces in Sochi.

Commitment to better prison conditions in Russian prisons

Tolokonnikova's experiences

Tolokonnikova described her experiences in the two penal camps in an interview after her pardon. She explained that in the camp she lived primarily with women from the majority of the population who were negative about her actions. “And when I explained our action to the women there, they were quickly on our side. The people of Russia can distinguish between truth and lies. Modern art has also always provoked negative reactions. We're not a $ 100 bill that everyone likes. On the contrary: it is the task of the modern artist to provoke and divide society ... I understand Russia much better now, simply because I was dealing there with women from social groups whom I would otherwise never have met. That's pretty important to a political activist like me. In addition, I have gained a great deal of inner calm, the serenity of a prisoner. ”Tolokonnikova described her treatment as“ terrible. Everything has been tried to break me and silence me. The worst and unbearable were the collective punishments. Because of a small gesture or when I asked the camp management to obey the law, a hundred people were assigned to the punishment battalion. Beatings were the order of the day there. I was treated better than others simply because the public attention was so high. With me, they also kept to the legally prescribed working hours of eight hours. The other women often had to work for up to 16 hours. ”Tolokonnikowa's approach to her commitment is based on her own experience:“ I do not lay claim to the ultimate truth here. But what would be needed would be: more sport, a larger selection of jobs, according to the talents and inclinations of the inmates, appropriate pay so that you can buy something without outside support. I only got 25 rubles a month for sewing uniforms day in and day out. That is 60 cents converted into euros. Had I not received parcels of groceries, I would have fared badly. It is also very important to ensure that prisoners do not kill fellow inmates. I also find educational measures important: Why shouldn't a theater troupe be guests in jail? "

Preparations

At a joint press conference in Moscow on December 27, 2013, Aljochina and Tolokonnikova confirmed that they wanted to work for better prison conditions in Russian prisons. From their own experience, they criticized the prison system in Russia and the cover-up of human rights violations and therefore further actions against Putin's government are being planned. “We met in Krasnoyarsk to talk about a new project,” Tolokonnikova replied to a question from the public. They want to finance their project through crowdfunding . When asked about Vladimir Putin, Tolokonnikova replied: "I would like Mikhail Khodorkovsky to hold this post." Khodorkovsky warned the activists in writing against hatred and resentment and congratulated them on their release: 21st century is unworthy, now is over. ”He had also indicated that he wanted to stand up for Russian prisoners. Shortly after her release, she told the Spiegel: “Our lives are very different. We only have one thing in common: warehouse experience. I hope that it will lead us Pussy Riot activists to do all we can to get innocent people released, to improve prison conditions and a more democratic political system in Russia. If Khodorkovsky wants to support our projects, please. We will definitely not ask him or anyone else for financial help. Of course, he has been in jail longer and under tougher conditions than me. Perhaps Mikhail Khodorkovsky would not be the worst president for our country either. "

Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina said they were planning to work with the well-known opposition blogger Alexei Navalny , who was running for the office of Moscow mayor. "We're not Pussy Riot right now," replied Tolokonnikova when asked about the future of Pussy Riot . "We have decided to get rid of [the brand] Pussy Riot".

Zone of Right (Sona prawa)

During their visit to Berlin, Tolokonnikowa and Aljochina visited the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on February 12, 2014 . Marieluise Beck , spokeswoman for Eastern European policy, had already seen her in August 2012 in the Khamovniki court in Moscow. Beck attended the pronouncement of the verdict and criticized the political character of the process.

Tolokonnikova's and Aljochina's non-governmental organization “Zone of Justice” intends to fight against the inhumane conditions and arbitrariness in the Russian penal system . The meeting in Berlin was primarily about how the suffering of imprisoned Russian women can be publicized . Marieluise Beck assured the two activists that the Greens in the Bundestag but also within the framework of the Council of Europe will make the prison conditions in the Russian penal system an issue .

“Zone of the Right” (Sona prawa) was chosen as the name because zone is the common word for penal colonies in Russia and because we want laws and human rights to be respected there. The bureaucrats in charge of our penal system should be guided by humanism, not the principle of the knuckle.

further activities

During the press conference of the annual film gala Cinema for Peace , Tolokonnikova mentioned a possible candidacy for the Moscow city parliament: “It's worth a try,” she replied on February 17, 2014, explaining that Yekaterina Samucevich did not participate in her human rights organization “ Zone des Right ”participate.

Following the presentation of the protest video in Sochi, the activists returned to Moscow to show solidarity with those on trial as the verdicts against the 27 demonstrators arrested after the riot the day before Putin was sworn in. With the protest in Sochi, they also wanted to draw attention to the Bolotnaya trials - Tolokonnikova described this as “the greatest disgrace in modern Russia”. During the protests against the verdict, Tolokonnikova and other participants were briefly detained in Moscow on February 24, 2014.

In Nizhny Novgorod , Aljochina and Tolokonnikova were victims of an attack by strangers on March 6, 2014, where they were splashed with green paint, showered with garbage and verbally abused. The attackers wore St. George's ribbons and are said to have called out to them to go to the United States. Tolokonnikova is said to have burned his face from the attack. On March 14, 2014, Alyochina and Tolokonnikova were again attacked with paint by unidentified men in a café. Aljochina let it be known: " They held my hair to inject something in the eye ." The two activists wanted to check in a prison camp in Mordovia whether the prisoners' rights were being respected.

At the large demonstration in Moscow against the policy of the Russian government in the Crimean crisis , Tolokonnikova said as one of the speakers on March 15, 2014: "History needs to be changed, truth and freedom are necessary."

The Norwegian news agency Norsk Telegrambyrå (NTB) mentioned the visit to a prison in Oslo and the performance of "Sona Prawa" at the literary festival in Lillehammer . Together with Alyochina, Tolokonnikova took part in the German screening of the documentary Pussy vs. Putin in Munich on March 23, 2014 . According to the organizers, the film by the Russian film collective Gogol's Wives stays closer to the activists than the documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer . The two activists were invited to the presentation of the film at the 37th International Film Festival in Gothenburg. Aljochina and Tolokonnikowa planned together with the two directors to present what they said was objective insider portrayal in Bergen, Norway. In the following months the two activists were invited to visit the USA and Great Britain to present the two films and "Sona Prawa".

On December 5, 2014, Aljochina and Tolokonnikowa, together with the Ukrainian author Jurij Andruchowytsch, received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Heinrich Böll Foundation . The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen announced in the press release: The award winners live and work in the post-imperial area of ​​the dissolved Soviet Union and oppose the attempt to restore old power relations in Ukraine and Russia and to abolish political freedoms. The conditions in the independent Ukraine are of course different from those in Russia, which under Putin is about to follow in the footsteps of the previous tsarist and Soviet regimes of violence .

Awards

Publications

  • Instructions for a revolution . Hanser, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-24774-1 .
  • Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj (with Slavoj Žižek). Verso, London, New York 2014.

Web links

Commons : Nadeschda Tolokonnikowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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