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Russian punk band were doing devil's work, says leader of Orthodox church
Patriarch Kirill condemns calls for leniency after P*ssy Riot performed unsanctioned show in Moscow's main cathedral

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Howard Amos in Moscow
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 March 2012 17.40 BST
A feminist punk band who staged an unsanctioned performance in Moscow's principal cathedral were doing the work of the devil, according to the head of the Russian Orthodox church.
Patriarch Kirill said that "the devil laughed at us" when Pussy Riot performed their song Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Expel Putin! in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour less than a fortnight before presidential elections.
Three alleged members of P*ssy Riot, who wear colourful balaclavas to hide their identities, have been arrested since the "punk prayer." They remain in prison awaiting trial on hooliganism charges and deny taking part in the 21 February show. All face sentences of up to seven years.
Patriarch Kirill appeared annoyed by calls for leniency. There were people who sought to "justify and downplay this sacrilege", he said. "My heart breaks from bitterness that amongst these people there are those who call themselves Orthodox."
Some members of the Orthodox church initiated an open letter to the patriarch earlier this month, calling on him to "maintain a Christian attitude" and for all criminal charges against the accused to be dropped.
Two of the three imprisoned women, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, have young children and were arrested the day before Vladimir Putin won a third term as president in a vote marred by fraud allegations.
While he avoided mentioning P*ssy Riot by name, Patriarch Kiril said the group's members "believe in the strength of propaganda, in the strength of lies and slander, in the strength of the internet, in the strength of the media [and] in the strength of money and arms".
Other songs played publicly by the band, which is closely linked to Russia's opposition movement, have included "Putin Pissed Himself", "Death to Prison, Freedom to Protest", and "* the Sexist, * Putin's Henchman."
Vladimir Putin's press secretary has said that the president-in-waiting reacted "negatively" when told about Pussy Riot's cathedral performance.

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Balloon riot, arrests as blaspheming band Pussy Riot in dock (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Russia Today - Published: 19 April, 2012, 18:16
http://rt.com/news/protests-pussy-riot-court-463/
Around a hundred protesters and even more police have gathered at a Moscow court that is hearing the case of feminist punk band Pussy Riot, notorious for performing a blasphemous song in a cathedral. Some 20 demonstrators have been detained.
Three members of the group were charged with hooliganism after bursting into Moscow’s main Christ the Savior Cathedral in February. At the altar, the band yelled out the song “Holy s**t”, which criticized the Church and government. Two other members, who also took part, have not been detained.
The unauthorized demo held by Pussy Riot supporters outside the court turned into an improvised performance as protesters arrived in costumes with balloons and musical instruments, and prepared to sing and recite poetry.
The keenest Pussy Riot supporters tried to repeat the famed notorious look of the punk band members. Some cut holes in colorful hats, turning them into masks; others wore similar vivid dresses with bright tights. Several enthusiastic activists even threw flares at police, and were promptly detained.
Representatives of the Orthodox believers’ community also turned out to condemn the band’s actions and demand punishment. Kommersant FM says after some of the protesters were arrested, the rest moved to a nearby park to continue what they called their "court festival".
Thursday’s hearing will determine whether the young women will remain in detention, as investigators request more time to work on the case. Earlier, the court sanctioned the detention of the three members until April 24.
The case has split public opinion in Russia, as some demand the girls face the gravest possible sentence for blaspheming against the Orthodox Church and offending believers’ feelings, while others call the band members “prisoners of conscience” and demand their immediate release.
Amnesty International, the Helsinki group and other human rights organizations have spoken out in support of the band, saying the accusation of criminal offense was “too serious, and the reaction of the authorities unduly harsh.” According to the latest opinion poll, almost a half of Russians consider the event hooliganism, and 21 per cent say it was blasphemous.
Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Irina Loktina face up to seven years in prison if found guilty.
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http://rt.com/news/protests-pussy-riot-court-463/

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FUNNY! Haven't seen this on the BBC!
Well quite clearly the jury were right and this was primarily an attack on the Orthodox Church and not Vladimir Putin
No wonder Pussy Riot the headline grabber have distanced themselves from it.

Pussy Riot topless protest: FEMEN activist takes chainsaw to cross

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MP says cross cutting ‘Satanist’ pro-Pussy Riot stunt
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Published: 27 August, 2012, 16:55
http://rt.com/politics/felling-crosses-consequence-pussy-642/


A worship cross, dedicated to the memory of victims of political repressions in Arkhangelsk, cut down by unidentified vandals. (RIA Novosti / RIA Novosti)

An MP of the ruling United Russia party labels the recent incidents of several Orthodox crosses being cut down in Russia as “true Satanism”. He says it is a direct consequence of the scandal over the “punk prayer” by now jailed band Pussy Riot.

“This is true Satanism! When some obsessed scum are destroying the symbols of Orthodox Christianity and even the most outspoken liberals cannot talk of “civil position” or “free arts” here. This is direct instigation of religious hatred,” Aleksey Zhuravlev said.

Zhuravlev is a member of the Lower House Defense Committee and chairman of the Congress of Russian Communities – an organization protecting the rights of ethnic Russians abroad.

“It is necessary to find this Satanist scum and give them a show trial under the Article 282. A show trial! This should become a lesson to the rest,” the parliamentarian holds. The article of the Russian Criminal Code lists instigation of hatred as a crime and orders punishment of up to five years in prison.

The politician added that in his view the members of Pussy Riot got a very lenient sentence for their “punk prayer”.

“My comrades and I from the Congress of Russian Communities insisted that the suspects should be tried under Article 282, as they openly insulted the dignity of millions of Orthodox Christians,” he said.

“The situation is very serious, we need resolute measures to counter this army of darkness that is hiding behind the mask of opposition and liberalism until their time comes,” Zhuravlev concluded.

Deputy head of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party Yaroslav Nilov told the press that those who insult Christianity will be punished by fate and society only needs to show that this is inevitable.

“The incidents of desecration of religious symbols and temples have become frequent in recent times. The incidents with felling of crosses are of the most dangerous kind. This outspoken behavior is often presented by mass media as a funny flash mob and the aggrieved party is painted in uninteresting colors and this only adds to the aggression, the social conflict and to the number of provocations,” Nilov stated in a press release.

The MP urged journalists to treat the situation seriously and to inform the public about the sad fate of those who committed acts of religious vandalism.

“When the media report about vandalism they should also give examples from our history about the fate of those who dropped church bells, felled crosses and demolished churches. A lot of those who committed acts of sacrilege often got retribution really fast – accidents happened to them, some of them died suddenly and some lost their relatives,” the letter reads.

“Vivid reporters’ stories with such historical parallels would cool some hot heads and bring down the number of provocations,” the politician wrote.

The reaction came as unidentified people chopped down and cut into pieces three Orthodox crosses near the village of Smelovsky in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals, and one cross in North Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region. Police have started a search for the vandals, but so far have not achieved any results.

At the same time, the leader of the local Cossack community said that the Cossacks will do their best to find the hooligans and hand them over to law enforcers. He also said that the crosses will be restored and guard posts will be put near the holy symbols.

The incident took place about a week after the Ukrainian feminist group Femen cut a memorial cross in central Kiev with a chainsaw as a sign of protest in support of the members of Pussy Riot.

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Colossal article comparing London & Washington's sense of justice in the Pussy Riot case to that of Bradley Manning & Julian Assange

Putin Is Demonized While Democracy Fails In Amerika ~ Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/30/putin-is-demonized-while-de mocracy-fails-in-amerika-paul-craig-roberts/

The latest “rights group” to jump on Russia’s President Putin about Pussy Riot is RootsAction. Following the propaganda line that Washington has established, RootsAction’s appeal for money and petition signers states that the three Russian women were sentenced to two years in prison “for the ‘crime’ of performing a song against Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in a Moscow church.”

This statement is a propagandistic misrepresentation of the offense for which the women were tried and convicted.

I have expressed my sympathies for the convicted women, and as a member of Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union, I support human rights.

But I do not support the use of human rights organizations in behalf of Washington’s propaganda.

If Putin or some other official has the power to commute the sentences, I hope he uses it. But I do not think that the concerted Western propaganda campaign against Putin encourages that result. Twice as many Russians support the sentence than oppose it.

If the sentence is commuted in response to the Western propaganda campaign against Putin, Russian nationalists will depict Putin as a weak leader unable to stand up to Western intimidation. The more internal dissension there is in Russia, the easier for Washington to marginalize the country and kick it out of Washington’s path to the overthrow of Syria and Iran by brutal human-rights-violating violence, such as Washington has applied to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

The State Department, the EU, and human rights groups are sufficiently politically astute to be aware of this fact. Yet, the propaganda continues.

As Putin has said, “we know what Comrade Wolf is up to.” But what about the human rights organizations? What are they up to? Have they been incorporated into Washington’s propaganda machine, like the Western media, or are they latching on to Pussy Riot as a visibility and fundraising issue for themselves?

Do-good organizations hurt for money, because compassion for others is not in abundant supply. Pussy Riot is a fundraising opportunity. If the Russian government succumbs to the propaganda, it provides an opportunity for human rights organizations to tout their influence. In other words, human rights organizations have independent reasons to align with Washington’s propaganda. Their alignment does not necessarily mean that they are conscious tools of Washington.

You can bet your last dollar that Washington, which dismisses as “collateral damage” the hundreds of thousands of women, children, and village elders murdered in Washington’s wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria, is not concerned with the three Pussy Riot women’s 2-year prison sentence.

Washington has kept the American hero, Bradley Manning in prison for two years without a trial. Washington claims the power, strictly prohibited by the US Constitution, that “scrap of paper,” to hold US citizens indefinitely in prison without due process of law and to murder them on suspicion alone without due process of law. Does any sentient person really believe that such a government gives a hoot about a two-year prison sentence for three Russian women?

The Western media is silent about the collapse of the United States into tyranny. But, on cue from Washington, the Western media is loud about the dire plight of Pussy Riot.

For example, this from the UK’s The Week with First Post: “Beyond Pussy Riot: slow death of freedom in Putin’s Russia.” Louisa Loveluck introduces her report: “The Russian government’s distaste for freedom of expression has been in the headlines recently thanks to the trial and subsequent imprisonment of three members of punk collective Pussy Riot. But the persecution of these women forms only a small part of a much broader crackdown on civil liberties in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”

Has Putin, like the Amerikan presidents Bush and Obama, declared that he has the power to throw Russian citizens in a dungeon for life without ever presenting evidence in a court? No, he has not.

Has Putin, like the Amerikan president Obama, declared that he has the power to assassinate Russian citizens without due process of law? No, he has not.

Has Putin, like the Amerikan president Obama, declared that he has the legal authority to invade any country of which he disapproves and to overthrow its government? No, he has not.

So why is the UK’s Louisa Loveluck going on about a two-year prison sentence in Russia when the UK government, in defiance of international law and in obedience to its Amerikan master, refuses safe passage to Ecuador for Julian Assange, who has been granted political asylum? Even “authoritarian” China grants safe passage to those granted asylum.

The hypocrisy of the West, including the rank hypocrisy of human rights organizations, is nauseating. It makes one ashamed.

Julian Assange faces life imprisonment in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London because the puppet UK government is helping Washington make an example of what happens to journalists who dare to publish the truth about Washington’s mendacity and war crimes.

Is Washington paying Louisa Loveluck’s salary or is she, along with the First Post, simply terrified of Washington’s power? Or are Ms. Loveluck and the First Post simply going with the flow and avoiding criticism by not differing from the propaganda line?

No one will investigate, so we will never know.

Meanwhile in “freedom and democracy” america, at their Tampa, Florida, nominating convention, the Republican Party showed its true colors. It is a Brownshirt Party.

The tyrannical Republican machine refused to allow Ron Paul’s name to be mentioned or his delegate count to be presented.

Reports from the Republican nomination convention read like reports of Stalin’s takeover of the Communist Party or the Nazi takeover of the German state. Rules adopted at the convention eliminate any grass roots input. The Republican politburo is supreme. The party is subservient, and the members’ voices are eliminated. Mimicking Lenin, the Republicans declared that Republican rule “means neither more nor less than unlimited power, resting directly on force, not limited by anything, not restricted by any laws, nor any absolute rules. Nothing else but that.”

As Mother Jones reported, Ron Paul supporters shouted from the convention floor, “* You, Tyrants!” http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/ron-paul-supporters-rebel-conv ention-floor-*-you-tyrants

The Republicans are the party of “freedom and democracy.” The Republicans are the party most controlled by the neoconservatives, who are strongly allied with Israel’s far right-wing government and are most hostile to the US Constitution. The Republicans are the party that gave us the PATRIOT Act, the first massive assault on the US Constitution. The Republicans are the party that gave us 9/11. The Republicans are the party that gave us the $3 trillion war against Iraq based on the Republican party’s lies about “weapons of mass destruction.” The Republicans are the party that gave us the $3 trillion war in Afghanistan based on lies about Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. The Republicans are the party that gave us the supremacy of the President over both the US Constitution and US statutory law; the executive branch is bound by neither according to the Republican Federalist Society members of the US Department of Justice (sic).

Obama is a despicable patsy, a front man for powerful private interests, and Democrats should be totally ashamed to have elevated such a cowardly lowlife. But as awful as Obama is, a vote for Republicans is a vote for Hitler or Stalin. Indeed, the election of Romney and Ryan would be worse than either.

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‘Pussy Riot’, the CIA and Cultural Terrorism
http://orientalreview.org/2012/08/22/on-pussy-riot-cia-and-cultural-te rrorism/

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Compared this band's musical ability to that of Joe Strummer & The Clash today
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