Just when you were sure that punk rock really was dead after all... https://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/yekaterina-samutsevich-closing-statement/ Samutsevich's main thesis is that they were targetted for a show trial for disrupting Putin's co-option of the Russian Orthodox Church, which plays a key role in his authoritarian - we should say, tsarist - revanchism in the absence of the erstwhile Soviet governing ideology. Apparently the head of the Russian Orthodox Church is widely thought to have been a KGB asset during the Soviet period when Putin was himself a KGB officer.
The trial was about..... Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial So the title is on target.
The individual from whom you have included the quote is the person responsible for undermining cultural values and by dragging the church into a political war. Yekaterian Samutsevich would have been prosecuted had she pulled the stunt off in any other country, maybe less severely so.
What cultural values? Russia is a dying society. It has one of the highest murder rates (but can't blame it on multi-culturalism like the USA), massive tobacco rates, no respect for human rights, an economy dependent fully on Petrol, zero-contributions in industry beyond foreign companies coming in to set up shop, massive crime rates, a mob-run cleptocracy and a population that is shrinking because of high mortality rates and low fertility rates. The west can offset low birth rates by being attractive places to live. What's Russia got? Oh. Right, it's got Draqon to defend it. And not very well. Prove it. I'll happily give you 24 hours. ~String
Church-sanctioned authoritarianism, apparently. It's also a bit ridiculous of him to blame Pussy Riot for "dragging the church into a political war" when their whole action was premised on the fact of the church being not only intertwined with the state, but actively politicized as a pillar of Putinism. Don't forget the alcoholism!
Now, do I really need to explain it when I say things were better under the U.S.S.R? God damn Gorbachev and Yeltsin!
