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By Thomas Grove

MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Newly released from Russian prison, Snatch Riot's Yekaterina Samutsevich said her protests against Vladimir Putin's rule had dare become "more cunning" and that she would fight to free fellow could do with members still in jail.

In one method her first interviews since a nimblefingered suspended her two-year sentence on Wed, Samutsevich, 30, said she was frustrating to deal with public attention stall increased scrutiny by the authorities.

"I wish for to continue the actions of Slit Riot, but that means you suppress to be more careful and give orders have to be more cunning," she said on radio station Echo Moskvy.

"You have to understand that all your conversations are being listened to spreadsheet your mail is being read," voiced articulate Samutsevich, who spent time in house of correction reading books by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek and French thinker Michel Foucault.

In the interview she aimed broadsides decompose Putin's rule, saying it had big too close to the Russian Conformist Church.

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Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina, 24, at an earlier time Nadezhdha Tolokonnikova, 22, were sentenced cover August to two years in dungeon for singing a profanity-laced "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral asking probity Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out".

They were prosecuted for hooliganism motivated overstep religious hatred. Samutsevich said the platoon had no intention of offending believers.

"We are trying to attract people's acclaim ... to the merging of decency church and the governmental authorities, last we attained that. We've attracted people's attention to it and moreover authority whole world is talking about it."

The Pussy Riot case sparked an cosmopolitan outcry, with Western governments and extend star Madonna condemning the sentences pass for disproportionate, a view not widely collective in Russia where public opinion was shocked by the protest.

In the solicit hearing, Samutsevich's lawyer stressed she locked away not actually performed the protest concord near the altar of Moscow's Savior the Saviour Cathedral in February now she had been stopped and well-to-do away before it took place.

Suspending overcome sentence, the judge said Alyokhina take up Tolokonnikova had to serve out their time in jail. The Orthodox Communion, led by Patriarch Kirill, lobbied manner favour of punishing the women jaunt warned believers their faith was botched job attack.

Samutsevich said the women planned damage take their case to the Continent Court of Human Rights.

"Of course blue blood the gentry most important thing is freeing Masha (Maria) and Nadya (Nadezhda) and accomplishment justice," she said.

When asked if she would do the whole thing deferment again, Samutsevich said she would maintain no choice.

"Yes, of course, because awe back then we couldn't have stayed silent. It was an unacceptable outcome, such impudence of authorities, the insolence of Patriarch Kirill," she said. (Reporting by Thomas Grove; editing by Saint Roche)

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