"Of course we're glad that she's no longer in Butyrka jail," the poet's grandmother, Sofia Vitukhnovskaya said in a telephone interview following her release.
"But this isn't freedom," she added.
Vitukhnovskaya, 22, was arrested last October for the illegal possession and sale of two grams of synthesized drugs for the total sum of $7 and 63,000 rubles (then worth about $21).
The poet, a member of the Russian Writers Union with two published volumes, had been working for Novoye Vremya magazine on an article on synthesized drugs and their use by Moscow's elite.
Her trial, in which some of Moscow's leading intellectuals have volunteered in her defense, has been underway since June.
If convicted, Vitukhnovskaya faces a minimum of six years in prison.
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