Members of which pop group were jailed in Russia after performing an anti Putin song in Moscow Cathedral?
"in 1997. In his 2002 interview with ""Izvestia"", Metropolitan Kirill called the allegations about his profiteering a political campaign against him. Alexander Pochinok who was the minister of taxes and levies (1999-2000), said in 2009 that Kirill had no involvement in the violations. Three female members of the feminist group Pussy Riot were arrested in March 2012 for performing a song in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow during which they called on the Virgin Mary to ""chase Putin out"". The women were arrested for hooliganism and were later sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The song contained swear words"
"years in a penal colony on August 17, 2012. The judge stated that they had ""crudely undermined the social order"" with their protest, showing a ""complete lack of respect"" for believers. Mark Feygin, a lawyer for the trio, stated that they would appeal the verdict, but that ""Under no circumstances will the girls ask for a pardon [from Putin] … They will not beg and humiliate themselves before such a bastard"". Tolokonnikova stated that ""Our imprisonment serves as a clear and unambiguous sign that freedom is being taken away from the entire country."" Both supporters and critics of the band"
"Maria Alyokhina Maria Vladimirovna ""Masha"" Alyokhina (; born June 6, 1988) is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. On August 17, 2012, she was convicted of ""hooliganism motivated by religious hatred"" for a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. She has been recognized as a political prisoner by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience due to ""the severity of the response of the Russian authorities."" At the time of her arrest, Alyokhina was"
"a performance that the band called a ""punk prayer"" inside Moscow's famous Christ the Savior Cathedral on February 21, 2012. In the performance, band members asked for the Virgin Mary to protect Russia against Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected as Russia's president a few days later. Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova said that during their prison sentences, they were subjected to numerous abuses. Tolokonnikova described ""slave-like conditions"", including working 16-hour days sewing police uniforms, and prisoners who suffered such severe frostbite that they had to have fingers and feet amputated. In an open letter she said, ""The convicts are always on the"
"The group gained global notoriety when five members of the group staged a performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21, 2012. The group's actions were condemned as sacrilegious by the Orthodox clergy and eventually stopped by church security officials. The women said their protest was directed at the Orthodox Church leaders' support for Putin during his election campaign. On March 3, 2012, two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested on March 16. Denied bail, they were held in custody until"
"demonstrated at their sentencing hearing. Opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, who was protesting in support of the band, was detained by police. Former world chess champion and long standing opposition member Garry Kasparov, who tried to attend the reading of the verdict, was arrested and beaten. Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin described the verdict as ""yet another blow to the court system and citizens' trust in it"", harming the country's international image. Putin responded that religious organizations should be protected, because ""the country has very grave memories of the initial period of Soviet rule, when a huge number of priests suffered."
"had turned it into a music video entitled ""Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!"". The women said their protest was directed at the Orthodox Church leader's support for Putin during his election campaign. On 3 March, two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested on 16 March. Denied bail, they were held in custody until their trial began in late July. On 17 August, the three members were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, and each was sentenced to two years"
"and video ""Bad Apples"". The song is a statement against corruption in the criminal justice system. On February 26, 2012 a criminal case was opened against the band members who had participated in the Moscow cathedral performance on February 21. On March 3, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, two alleged members of Pussy Riot, were arrested by the Russian authorities and accused of hooliganism. Both women at first denied being members of the group and started a hunger strike in protest against being held in jail away from their young children. The defendants were held without bail. On March 16,"
"battery. Yekaterina Samutsevich Yekaterina Stanislavovna Samutsevich (; born 9 August 1982) is a Russian political activist. She was a member of the anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. On 17 August 2012, she was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years imprisonment. She has been recognized as a political prisoner by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience due to ""the severity of the response of the Russian authorities."" She was released on a suspended sentence by"
"protest inside the Moscow Cathedral. On 17 August, Tolokonnikova and two other members were sentenced to two years' imprisonment for 'hooliganism'. Subsequent to their arrest and imprisonment Verzilov became a prominent representative and spokesperson for Pussy Riot. He lobbied the singer Madonna for support prior to her 2012 Moscow concert. On 14 September 2012, Verzilov was interviewed by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi for the ""HARDtalk"" programme. In September that year, Verzilov accepted the LennonOno grant for peace from Yoko Ono, on behalf of Pussy Riot, at a ceremony in New York. However, in October 2012, the jailed Pussy Riot members"
"Yekaterina Samutsevich Yekaterina Stanislavovna Samutsevich (; born 9 August 1982) is a Russian political activist. She was a member of the anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. On 17 August 2012, she was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years imprisonment. She has been recognized as a political prisoner by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience due to ""the severity of the response of the Russian authorities."" She was released on a suspended sentence by a"
"being held among the prisoners. Political activists Alexey Navalny and Ilya Yashin had been arrested one week earlier at a mass protest against the results of the State Duma elections. Pussy Riot played their song ""Smert tyurme, svobodu protestu"" (""Death To Prison, Freedom To Protests""), a pun on the Soviet World War II slogan Smert fasizmu, svobodu narodu (""Death to fascism, freedom to the people""), and were applauded by the prisoners watching from inside the bars of the jail cell windows. On January 20, 2012, in what the Associated Press described as their ""breakthrough performance"", eight members of the group"
"by the Russian judicial system."" According to BBC Monitoring, in the European and American press there was ""almost universal condemnation"" of the two-year sentence imposed on the three members of the group. While many newspaper editorials and opinion columns were critical of the performance in the Cathedral, very few thought a two-year prison sentence was an appropriate punishment, arguing that the action should have been treated as a public order crime and punished by a fine or community service. Simon Jenkins of ""The Guardian"" argued the West was being hypocritical, in that excessively harsh prison terms were by no means"
"March 2018 the Russian authorities forbad the biggest gay website Gay.ru because of ""propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships"". According to a survey conducted in June 2013 by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), at least 90% of those surveyed were in favor of the law. Some of Russia's biggest stars, including Dima Bilan, Philipp Kirkorov and Nikolay Baskov, voiced their opposition to the laws. Other stars such as Valeriya support the anti-gay laws. In February 2012, the feminist protest band Pussy Riot put on a controversial performance within Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior to protest the Orthodox Church's"
"trial while 36 percent supported it; the rest being undecided. Putin stated that while he saw ""nothing good"" about the band's protest, ""Nonetheless, I don't think that they should be judged so harshly for this."" The defendants pleaded not guilty, saying that they had not meant their protest to be offensive. ""We sang part of the refrain 'Holy shit',"" Tolokonnikova said in court. ""I am sorry if I offended anyone with this. It is an idiomatic expression, related to the previous verse — about the fusion of Moscow patriarchy and the government. 'Holy shit' is our evaluation of the situation"
"three unidentified women planned to perform a song called ""Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland"" as Pussy Riot during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The action was supposed to be concerned with the prisoners in the Bolotnaya Square case, corrupt Olympic officials, the plight of the arrested environmentalist and suppressed freedoms in Russia. On February 18, 2014, they were detained in Sochi together with a group of 12-15 people including Yevgeny Feldman, a Novaya Gazeta journalist. The authorities explained that the arrest was in connection with a theft at a hotel in Sochi. In a few hours"
"February 21, 2012, as part of a protest movement against the re-election of Vladimir Putin, five women from the group entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. There was no church service in session at the time, and only a few people were in the cathedral. Removing their winter clothes, they put on colorful balaclavas, walked up the steps leading to the altar, and began to jump around, punching the air. After less than a minute, they were escorted outside the building by guards. Film of the performance was later combined with footage"
"of the performance quickly went viral and generated a flurry of interest from the Russian press. Later that month the group re-emerged, with several members playing ""Kropotkin Vodka"" on the roof of an automobile display unit in a luxury-store district and in the windows of fashion boutiques, while another member discharged a fire extinguisher into the air. The song took its title from Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin, and metaphorically concerned the assassination of ""Kremlin bastards"" by fatal poisoning. On December 14, 2011, the group performed atop a garage beside the Moscow Detention Center No. 1 prison, where opposition activists were"
"political support of President Vladimir Putin, which included his stance on LGBT rights in Russia. Weeks after the performance, three members of the band were arrested and charged with ""hooliganism motivated by religious hatred"", which then sparked a global protest movement against the trio's arrest. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, responding to questions raised in the international community about the implications of the new law on the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi said the controversy over Russia's anti-gay propaganda law is an ""invented problem"" created by the Western media and that the law does not discriminate against anyone."
"Russian Federation (Moscow), faculty of ""Strategic Management"". In 2002 - the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Feygin is the author of more than 20 scientific publications in the theme of municipal law and a number of monographs - The constitutional foundations of local government in the Russian Federation, The codification of the laws on local government in the Russian Federation, textbook State power and local self-government. 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"
"unknown in Western countries. Some in the media also raised concerns that a place of worship is not an appropriate venue for any form of protest, and that Pussy Riot's cause did not morally justify their actions. The Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI expressed his solidarity with the position of the Russian Orthodox Church on the ""acts of vandalism"" at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and expressed surprise at the reaction of some media organizations to those events. On June 30, 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a bill imposing jail terms and fines for insulting people's religious feelings, which some"
"moral damages, claiming that a Pussy Riot video had caused her headaches and increased blood pressure. The claim was rejected by the Kuntsevo District Court in Moscow on September 7, 2012. Similar claims by Berdsk resident Yuri Zadoy and Novosibirsk resident Ivan Krasnitsky were dismissed by the same court on October 3, as was a subsequent appeal by Ruzankina to the Moscow City Court on February 18, 2013. In early November 2012 prosecutors applied under anti-extremism legislation to Zamoskvoretsky District Court to ban several Pussy Riot videos, including the video of the group's performance in the Cathedral of Christ the"
"Pussy Riot Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has had a variable membership of approximately 11 women ranging in age from about 20 to 33 (). The group staged unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in public places, performances that were filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet. The collective's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom the group considered to be a dictator, and his policies. These themes also encompassed Putin's links to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church."
"and called Putin ""a man who is as far as can be from God's truth"". This performance led to the arrest and prosecution of three of their members. Pussy Riot released a single in August 2012 as the court case against three of their members drew to a close. It was called ""Putin zazhigayet kostry"" (""Putin Lights Up The Fires""), and had lyrics referring to issues around the case. Among other demands, the lyrics requested that ""Seven years [imprisonment] is not enough, give us eighteen!"" Pussy Riot released their first song and video in English in February 2015. ""I Can't"
"political views. But the band went on shocking and amusing the crowd. During the promotional tour for Computer Hitler album, Korrozia even employed world-famous politics and dictators impersonators for their extreme live shows. Pauk indicated his interest in politics when nominated himself for mayor of Moscow in 1993, and for mayor of Khimki in 2012 with a good sense of black humor as well. The band has long been associated with far-right political leanings; several of their songs have been banned and they are included in Russia's federal list of extremist materials in Russia for inciting inter-ethnic hatred. Korrozia's songs"
"peace"". The Christ the Savior Cathedral was destroyed in 1931 on the order of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (it was rebuilt in the 1990s), adding to the location's significance to believers. At the conclusion of the trial, a series of Levada Center polls showed that, of 1600 Russians surveyed in 45 cities nationwide, 42% also believed Pussy Riot had been arrested for insulting the shrines and beliefs of the Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, 29% saw it as a case of general hooliganism, while only 19% saw it as a political protest against Putin. Overall opinion was for the most part negative"
"2015, Moddi contributed to the album ""Fabler om en åpen kirke"" in support of the liberal forces within the Norwegian Church. He participated with the song ""Vær hilset, fru Bjerkås!"", a tribute to Ingrid Bjerkås, the first female priest in service in Norway. On his 17 November 2016 concert in Kirkenes, Moddi refrained from performing the song Punk Prayer by Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot, after the Russian Consulate General to Norway, Sergej Sjatunovskij-Byurno, warned that performing the song could mean up to six years in prison for the musicians of Arkhangelsk Chamber Orchesta who were backing Moddi on"
"Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova (; born 7 November 1989), nicknamed ""Nadya Tolokno"" (), is a Russian conceptual artist and political activist. She was a member of the Anarchist Feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the controversial street art group Voina. On 17 August 2012, she was convicted of ""hooliganism motivated by religious hatred"" after a performance in Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On 23 December 2013, she was released early with another Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina under a newly passed amnesty bill dedicated to the"
"shot at a different church, identified by Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin as the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo, to create a video clip for the song, which they entitled ""Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away"". The song, which they described as a punk ""moleben"" (supplicatory prayer), borrowed its opening melody and refrain from Sergei Rachmaninoff's """"Bogoroditse Devo, Raduisya"""" (Ave Maria), from the All Night Vigil. In the song, they invoked the name of the Virgin Mary, urging her to get rid of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and to ""become a feminist"", claiming that she would support"
"have seen as a response to the ""punk prayer"" performed by the Pussy Riot in a Moscow cathedral. In a ""Live TV""(Russian: ""Прямой Эфир"") show aired on September 30, 2013, by Rossiya 1 TV channel, Maria Alyokhina pledged to do no more shows at churches. ""We've paid attention to the fact that, as it turns out, since 2013 this has been a criminal offense, and we've repeatedly heard opinions from people whom we take seriously. This is basically the reason why we wouldn't go to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior again – or, unquestionably, to any other church for"
"May 6, 2012, Baronova was detained by police at the Zakonospassky monastery, where “she had asked a priest to say a prayer in support of her friends, the three jailed members of the Pussy Riot band.” Released within hours, she organized an instantaneous protest in Bolotnaya Square that devolved into “a police riot, mass detentions, and beatings.” Enraged at the brutality of police officers during the demonstration, she yelled at them: “You violated your oath just as badly as your tsar did!” Facing a line of soldiers, she recited to them Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees freedom"
"March"". Kolovrat (band) Kolovrat is a Russian Rock Against Communism/Thrash Metal band. This is a cult band among the Russian nationalists. The band was founded in 1994, in Moscow by and his friends. Originally called ""Russian ghetto"" (), they changed their name to Kolovrat in the autumn of 1997. The band's songs cover a wide variety of styles including rock, metal, Oi!, NSBM and ballads. The band is still around as of the mid-2010s On November 4, 2009, the band played openly for the first time in the center of Moscow, at the Bolotnaya Square as part of the yearly"
"men and women alike. In September 2012, HRF submitted a petition and legal report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women requesting that she send an allegation letter to the government of Pakistan regarding its failure to exercise due diligence in the case of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani human rights activist and victim of a violent gang rape in 2002. In February 2012, three members of Pussy Riot performed a ""Punk Prayer"" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow in protest of the Russian Orthodox Church, which openly endorsed Putin as he campaigned for presidential"