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Vandal of Moscow Icons Released from Jail

March 20, 2013 Featured News

MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a man that vandalized icons in Russia’s largest Orthodox cathedral to a year of limited freedom, but released him for time served. The court found St. Petersburg resident Yury Piotrovsky guilty of “vandalism incited by religious hatred” for pouring ink on two icons [...]

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Femen act in the cathedral – French politicians in fury – similarities to Pussy Riot

February 20, 2013 Featured News

Dmitry Babich 20/2/13 Here is another example of the European double standards: in France the very same politicians who recently admired the Pussy Riot act in the Christ the Savior Cathedral now criticize the Femen activists for their act in the Notre Dame Cathedral. New details of the disgraceful act performed in the Notre Dame [...]

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Church should have more control over Russian life: Putin

February 2, 2013 Featured News

Thomas Grove – 1/2/13 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Friday the Orthodox Church should be given more say over family life, education and the armed forces in Russia, as he celebrated the leadership of its head Patriarch Kirill. Faith runs deep in Russia after the fall of the officially atheist Soviet Union and [...]

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Depardieu criticizes Pussy Riot and Russian opposition

January 15, 2013 News
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Moscow, January 14, Interfax – Actor Gerard Depardieu, who has recently received the Russian citizenship, expressed his attitude to members of the Pussy Riot group, convicted for “punk prayer” in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, and to the Russian opposition. “Imagine, if those girls came to for instance in mosque, they would not leave it [...]

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Pussy Riot singer had staged anti-Semitic action, Putin tells Merkel

November 20, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, November 16, Interfax – President Vladimir Putin said that a singer of the Pussy Riot punk group had staged an anti-Semitic provocation before the punk group’s scandalous performance at the Christ the Savior Cathedral. “We do hear what our partners say. But do they hear what is going on being so far away? Mrs. [...]

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Over 40% of Russians suspect mastermind behind Pussy Riot performance – poll

October 29, 2012 News

Moscow, October 29, Interfax – Russians are not unanimous about possible masterminds behind the Pussy Riot punk band’s scandalous performance at the Moscow Christ the Savior Cathedral in February 2012, the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) said in commenting on a poll held in 43 constituents of the Russian Federation. 41% of the respondents [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI agrees with Russian Church on Pussy Riot

October 20, 2012 News

Moscow, October 17, Interfax – Pope Benedict XVI agrees with the Moscow Patriarchate’s evaluation of the stunt carried out by the punk group Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The issue was addressed in the meeting between Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, with [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church asks for clemency for three jailed members of Pussy Riot

October 3, 2012 Featured News

  Associated Press 3/10/2012 MOSCOW — The Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday asked for clemency for three jailed members of the rock band Pussy Riot if they repent for their “punk prayer” for deliverance from President Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s main cathedral, a statement that came a day before an appeal hearing and appeared to [...]

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Pussy Riot shines in EU despite orgies, blasphemy and hooliganism

September 28, 2012 Featured News

28/9/2012 The EU parliament nominated a controversial punk band whose members were recently sentenced to two years in prison for “inciting religious hatred” for a human rights prize, sparking intense condemnation from Russian officials. On Tuesday, deputies of the European Parliament nominated Pussy Riot – the punk band that used Christ the Savior Cathedral as [...]

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Orthodox church activists protest at Pussy Riot exhibition

September 21, 2012 News

21/9/2012 Nine people have been detained after Orthodox church activists in Russia disrupted the opening of an art exhibition devoted to the controversial punk band, Pussy Riot. Three members of the group were jailed in August for their protest performance in Moscow’s Orthodox cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of President Putin. [...]

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Crosses torn down and Pussy Riot slogans on a church in Georgia

September 17, 2012 Featured News

Nina Achmatova 17/9/2012 Episodes of intolerance continue in the wake of sentencing of the Russian feminist punk band. Orthodox Church debate whether this is due to a anti-clerical campaign or break down in relationship with society. Moscow (AsiaNews) – Crosses torn down in Russia and graffiti on the walls of churches in Georgia. Anti-clerical acts [...]

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The New Soviet League of Militant Godless

September 13, 2012 Featured News

13/9/2012 Philip Jenkins It sounds like a scriptwriter’s dream. Here we have Russia, a vastly powerful country with a floundering democracy, facing the imminent threat of tyranny. That danger is personified by Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man who looks like, well, a former KGB man, as imagined by John Le Carré. Standing in his [...]

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‘Orthodox Church beset by concerted attack’ – Patriarch Kirill

September 11, 2012 Featured News

10/9/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church and its values have been under an attack from those opposed to its post-Soviet revival, which is aimed at testing the depth of people’s faith, says the head of the Church, Patriarch Kirill. What has been happening in terms of aggression against the Church “is certainly not accidental,” he believes. [...]

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Who Is Chopping Down Russia’s Crosses?

September 7, 2012 Featured News

Claire Bigg 6/9/2012 Topuchaya’s 220 inhabitants never thought their tiny Siberian village would one day make headlines. Yet this week, news that a Russian Orthodox cross had been vandalized in this far-flung village in the mountainous Altai region spread through Russian media like wildfire. The incident, in which the free-standing wooden cross was toppled and [...]

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Russia must protect believers from Pussy Riot: Putin

September 7, 2012 Featured News

7/9/2012 MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia was obliged to protect feelings of religious believers in the case of jailed opposition punk rockers Pussy Riot, slamming their antics as an “orgy”. Last month’s jailing for two years of three Pussy Riot members for their impromptu anti-Putin performance in a Moscow cathedral aroused international [...]

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In desecration of crosses, Russia’s Orthodox church sees dark warning

August 30, 2012 News

By Fred Weir 30/8/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church said an antireligious campaign – in sympathy with Pussy Riot punk band – was under way after four large wooden crosses were destroyed over the weekend. The Russian Orthodox Church is warning of an organized antireligious campaign under way against Christians in Russia, after vandals in two [...]

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Vandals Take Chainsaws to Orthodox Crosses

August 27, 2012 Featured News

Alexander Bratersky 27/8/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church is calling for the punishment of vandals who used chainsaws to topple at least four wooden crosses in two regions over the weekend, prompting widespread outrage that some fear might lead to religious unrest. Unknown vandals cut down three wooden crosses in the Chelyabinsk region and one in [...]

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Media review: “Pussy Riot. The Unfortunate Dupes of Amerikan Hegemony”

August 27, 2012 Featured News

25/8/2012 My heart goes out to the three Russian women who comprise the Russian rock band, Pussy Riot. They were brutally deceived and used by the Washington-financed NGOs that have infiltrated Russia. Pussy Riot was sent on a mission that was clearly illegal under statutory law. You have to admire and to appreciate the spunk [...]

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Orthodox Church forgives Pussy Riot

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 Two top clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church said that it has forgiven the members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism and sent to prison for briefly taking over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin. Tikhon Shevkunov, who heads Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery and is [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church asks authorities to show mercy on Pussy Riot

August 18, 2012 Featured News

18/8/2012 Officials from Russia’s Orthodox Church have appealed to the country’s authorities to “show mercy” on the three members of Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in jail for a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral. ­“Casting no doubt on the legitimacy of the court’s decision, we appeal to the public authorities to show mercy, [...]

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Pussy Riot reveals rift in Russian Orthodox Church

August 16, 2012 News

16/8/2012 FP Staff MOSCOW (Reuters) – An anti-Kremlin protest by three women on the altar of Moscow’s main cathedral has united many Russian Orthodox believers in outrage, but their trial has exposed deep rifts over the Church’s role in politics. On her way out of the Church of the Resurrection in a leafy neighbourhood of [...]

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Pussy Riot action would be definitely regarded as a crime in any Western country – Italian sociologist

August 16, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, August 10, Interfax – Massimo Introvigne, an internationally well-known sociologist of religions, believes Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is a crime and manifestation of xenophobia. “Freedom of expression does not include the right to enter a cathedral and shout insults at religion, just as it does not include the [...]

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Church calls for Madonna ban for backing Pussy Riot

August 8, 2012 News

8/8/2012 Supporters of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church called on the authorities Tuesday to ban Madonna’s concerts after the US pop icon called for the release of three members of the Pussy Riot protest band. Madonna stepped into the controversy surrounding the three young women by saying on her arrival in Moscow that she hoped the [...]

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‘God Condemns Pussy Riot,’ Church Official Says

June 26, 2012 News

26/6/2012 Moscow Times Russian Orthodox church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin said God told him in a divine revelation that he condemns members of female punk band Pussy Riot for their scandalous performance in Christ the Savior Cathedral. “I am convinced that God condemns what they’ve done. I’m convinced that this sin will be punished in this [...]

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Some half of Russians believe Orthodox Church needs public protection – poll

May 30, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, May 28, Interfax – Over half of Russians polled by VTsIOM in late April reported being aware of the “prayer standings” held in Orthodox churches a month before. 2% of the respondents said they personally took part in them, 14% said they watched them on live television, and 37% said they learned about the [...]

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