The prison sentence handed down last week against three members of Pussy Riot, a group of activists opposed to President Vladimir Putin, will restrict a lot more than the personal freedoms of the young women convicted. Judge Marina Syrova sentenced them to two years in prison for offending the faithful of the Orthodox Church by performing a crude anti-Putin song near the altar of a Moscow cathedral in February. While many were offended by the gesture, the judge’s verdict has put the state’s seal of approval on the righteous anger of one community, and that anger is proving hard to control.
But according to a Russian source something different is going down Russian Orthodox to Form Party | Russia | RIA Novosti:
Autocratic Russia and the Union of Orthodox Citizens are planning to register an “Orthodox” political party, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday.
The organization’s founders said they see Russia as a monarchy with a special role for the Russian Orthodox Church and the patriarch of Moscow and all Russia as the country’s spiritual leader.
Does that mean Putin is going to leave his own political party, and join this new one?
2 comments:
Putin keeps creating new parties to pretend like there is difference of opinion within the country. Yet all those parties always vote the way Putin needs. This system has been in place for 20 years now and it's not likely to change any time soon.
I was speaking with my Russian friend on Friday and he said the first analysis is certainly correct but this one of a new party is intriguing.
Shall send him your link.
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