 In early September 2012 , unidentified vandals drew a " feminist caricature " of Saint Nino on Qvashveti Church in Tbilisi , Georgia , accompanied by the English @-@ language words " Free Pussy Riot ! " On September 16 , Yuri Pyotrovsky , a 62 @-@ year @-@ old St. Petersburg native residing in Germany , poured ink over an icon in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in support of Pussy Riot . He was charged under the article of the Criminal Code for hooliganism . Maria Alyokhina explicitly condemned cutting down crosses and splashing ink on icons during her unsuccessful appeal against her sentence on October 10 . 
