Mark Feygin

In 1995 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Samara State University. He was one of the leaders of the democratic movement in Samara, co-chairman of the regional organization of the movement Democratic Russia.

In 1993-1996 Feygin served as the Deputy of the State Duma from the fraction of Vybor Rossii, one of the authors and developers of the first edition of the Federal Law About General Principles of Local Government in Russian Federation. In 1995 he took a part in parliamentary groups participated in humanitarian missions during the combat operations in the North Caucasus. As such he travelled to Chechnya to negotiate the release of 2 Russian captives from Chechen captivity. Negotiations ended with the release of one captive, while second was found to be dead.{{Cite web |date=2012-09-03 |title=Марк Фейгин: "Чтобы изменить российскую судебную систему, надо пригласить в судьи швейцарцев" |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2012/09/03/119/ |accessdate=2023-04-30 |website=fontanka.ru - новости Санкт-Петербурга |language=ru}} In 1996 he was also the editor in chief of the daily newspaper "CHISLA" published in Samara.{{Cite news|script-title=ru:Биография Фейгина Марка|language=ru|trans-title=Biography of mark Feygin|url=http://www.obeschania.ru/persons/fejgin-mark|publisher=obeschania.ru|accessdate=7 July 2018|date=8 October 2015|archivedate=4 October 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004113908/http://www.obeschania.ru/persons/fejgin-mark|url-status=dead}}

In 2000 he graduated from the Institute of Business Administration, Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, faculty of "Strategic Management". In 2002 - the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

On 24 April 2018, the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers stripped Mark Feygin of his attorney status for the inappropriate language in his comments on Twitter about Anatoly Shariy and his lawyer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3613467|title=Марк Фейгин лишен адвокатского статуса|date=2018-04-24|access-date=2018-04-25}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aif.ru/society/marka_feygina_lishili_advokatskogo_statusa_za_necenzurnuyu_leksiku|title=Марка Фейгина лишили адвокатского статуса за нецензурную лексику|website=www.aif.ru|date=24 April 2018 |access-date=2018-04-25}} Feygin's appeal{{Cite news|url=https://www.unian.net/world/10094432-feygin-obzhaluet-reshenie-o-lishenii-ego-statusa-advokata.html|script-title=ru:Фейгин обжалует решение о лишении его статуса адвоката|access-date=2018-04-27|language=ru}} was denied.[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330064204/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3718294 Марк Фейгин не отсудил свой статус]

Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has gained a following on YouTube, hosting daily discussions with Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksii Arestovych on his channel. In October 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation declared Feygin a wanted fugitive, due to his pro-Ukrainian stance in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite news |title=МВД России объявило в розыск Марка Фейгина |url=https://meduza.io/news/2023/10/16/mvd-rossii-ob-yavilo-v-rozysk-marka-feygina |work=Meduza |date=16 October 2023 |page=ru}} In 2024 he was convicted in absentia for 11 years of corrective colony for "dissemination of knowingly false information about the Russian Army <...> motivated by political hatred".[https://epp.genproc.gov.ru/web/gprf/mass-media/news?item=96388117 Суд заочно вынес приговор по уголовному делу о распространении заведомо ложной информации о Вооруженных Силах Российской Федерации]

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.{{Cite news|title=Anti-Putin Pussy Riot band members get 2 years in prison |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/anti-putin-pussy-riot-band-members-jailed-for-2-years-1.1180933 |publisher=CBC.ca |access-date=17 August 2012 |date=17 August 2012 |archive-date=29 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029215006/http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/08/17/pussy-riot-verdict-moscow-russia.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/samutsevich-threatens-past-pussy-riot-lawyers/471694.html |title=Samutsevich Threatens Past Pussy Riot Lawyers |author=Natalya Krainova |date=21 November 2012 |work=The Moscow Times |accessdate=21 November 2012 |archivedate=21 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121193229/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/samutsevich-threatens-past-pussy-riot-lawyers/471694.html |url-status=live }} The band's trial became an international cause célèbre during their trial on charges of hooliganism.{{cite news |url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/50dd210a-db1a-11e1-8074-00144feab49a.html |title= The Pussy Riot act |work=Financial Times|date = 31 July 2012 |accessdate=1 August 2012}} {{registration required}} 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."{{Cite news |title=Moscow Court Postpones Pussy Riot Hearing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/world/europe/pussy-riot-hearing-is-postponed-by-moscow-court.html?hp |author=David M. Herszenhorn |work=The New York Times |date=1 October 2012 |accessdate=31 October 2012 |archivedate=5 October 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005080906/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/world/europe/pussy-riot-hearing-is-postponed-by-moscow-court.html?hp&_r=0 |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/russian-court-releases-pussy-riot-member/1523761.html |title=Russia Frees One Punk Rocker, Keeps Two in Jail |author=James Brooke |date=10 October 2012 |publisher=Voice of America |access-date=1 November 2012 |archive-date=12 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112152102/http://www.voanews.com/content/russian-court-releases-pussy-riot-member/1523761.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/10/10/a_4807253.shtml |title=One of three Pussy Riot band members freed |date=10 October 2012 |publisher=gazeta.ru |accessdate=1 November 2012 |archivedate=23 March 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323175405/http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/10/10/a_4807253.shtml |url-status=live }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121119/265424973.html |title=Pussy Riot attorneys terminate agreement with band members |date=19 November 2012 |publisher=RAPSI |accessdate=18 November 2012 |archivedate=17 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517130919/http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20121119/265424973.html |url-status=live }} Samutsevich criticized the original legal team for allegedly using the trial for personal publicity rather than securing the release of the defendants.{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/11/what-pussy-riots-new-path-freedom-looks/59243/# |title=What Pussy Riot's New Path to Freedom Looks Like |author=David Wagner |date=21 November 2012 |work=The Atlantic |accessdate=21 November 2012 |archivedate=16 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516100430/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/11/what-pussy-riots-new-path-freedom-looks/59243/ |url-status=live }} 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 Nikolay Polozov filed suit against Khrunova and Kommersant for defamation.{{cite web|url=https://lenta.ru/news/2013/01/21/isk/ |title=Бывшие адвокаты Pussy Riot подали иск к "Коммерсанту" и Хруновой |language=Russian |date=21 January 2013 |publisher=Lenta |accessdate=21 January 2013 |archivedate=23 January 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123221534/http://lenta.ru/news/2013/01/21/isk |url-status=live }} This suit was rejected by the Tverskoy District Court on 20 August 2013.{{cite web |url=https://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20130820/268604552.html |title=Former Pussy Riot lawyers' defamation suit rejected |date=20 August 2013 |publisher=RAPSI |accessdate=13 September 2013}}

Feygin also defended Leonid Razvozzhayev, an opposition political aide who accused Russian authorities of having kidnapped him from Kyiv, Ukraine to face terrorism charges.{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-33812182.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117152505/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-33812182.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2018 |title=Russia accused of kidnapping |author=Kathy Lally |date=26 October 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher= |accessdate=18 November 2012}}

Since 11 June 2014, Feygin also defended Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian air-force pilot who was captured by pro-Russian separatists during the war in Donbas (in eastern Ukraine) and who was detained in Russia and charged with the killing of two Russian journalists.[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28232966 Ukraine conflict: Russia charges pilot over deaths], BBC News (9 July 2014)
[http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/russia-charges-ukrainian-pilot-savchenko-over-journalists-deaths-n151501 Russia Charges Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko Over Journalists' Deaths], NBC News (9 July 2014){{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/11/7031687 Defender "Pussy Riot" became a lawyer pilots Nadiya], Ukrayinska Pravda (11 July 2014)

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