Mark Feygin

On 20 April 2018 the Moscow City Court upheld the previous court's decision with one correction: in Mark Feygin's public retraction, he does not have to say "Shariy is not a pedophile", however he must state "Shariy is not under investigation for pedophilia"

On 24 April 2018 the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers stripped Mark Feygin of his attorney status. He has been allowed to reinstate it after a period of one year by passing a bar exam or by successfully appealing the Chamber's decision. The ruling was based on Feygin's "inappropriate statements" (foul language) made towards Anatoly Shariy's lawyer Stalina Gurevich and Shariy himself . The court agreed with the plaintiff that Mark Feygin used foul language via his Twitter account to address a lawyer colleague and her client. Mark Feygin stated he will be filing an appeal.

On 13 July 2017 during a live broadcast of the show "My Truth" on the "Moscow Talking" radio channel, Feygin stated "He (Anatoly Shariy) is under investigation for pedophilia, I think there are people looking into it. So this guy, hopefully, sooner or later will be held accountable." On 18 July 2017 lawyers representing Anatoly Shariy filed a defamation lawsuit against Feygin in the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow and the Investigative Committee of Russia. Shariy asked to retract the accusation, requested a criminal investigation and demanded a public apology. Feygin refused to apologize saying "Never. Let this lawsuit be dealt with, are there any problems? I don't see a problem. (...) In regards to this matter, there are court decisions in Ukraine, so I think there's absolutely no point to react to it".

On 25 October 2017 the Khamovniki District Court of Moscow ruled in favor of Anatoly Shariy by ordering Mark Feygin to retract his statements on the same radio show within 10 days and make a payment of 66,000 rubles (approx US$1000) in court fees. Mark Feygin's lawyer filed an appeal.

This wasn't the first time Mark Feygin's attorney status was debated in court. Ilya Novikov, an attorney who defended Nadiya Savchenko together with Mark Feygin, filed a complaint to the Moscow Chamber of Lawyers, asking for Feygin's disbarment by claiming that "Feygin violates the code of professional ethics of lawyers by speaking obscenely in social media." On 9 August 2017 the Chamber made a decision to give out warnings to both Feygin and Novikov. Novikov claims that on the way out of the courthouse, Feygin headbutted him in the elevator.

Since 11 June 2014 Feygin also defended Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian air-force pilot who was captured by pro-Russian insurgents during the 2014 insurgency in Donbass (in eastern Ukraine) and who was detained in Russia and charged with the killing of two Russian journalists.

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. Samutsevich criticized the original legal team for allegedly using the trial for personal publicity rather than securing the release of the defendants. 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. This suit was rejected by the Tverskoi District Court on 20 August 2013.

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. The band's trial became an international cause célèbre during their trial on charges of hooliganism. 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." 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.

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

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. In 1996 he was also the editor in chief of the daily newspaper "CHISLA" published in Samara.

Mark Zakharovich Feygin (Russian: Ма́рк Заха́рович Фе́йгин ; born 3 June 1971) is a former Russian lawyer and politician. He served from January 1994 to December 1995 as a deputy of the State Duma and was the vice mayor of Samara. In 2011 and 2012, Feygin was active in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, and announced that he was forming an opposition party. Mark Feygin was disbarred on 24 April 2018.