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The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is not the first church where the Pussy Riot group performed, two days before their punk-spring, the girls sang a song in the Epiphany Cathedral in Elokhov. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate on the relationship between the Church and the Society of Vsevolod Chaplin. "Two days before the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the participants of the famous group came to the Elokhov Cathedral and there, having deployed guitars, tried to play something. They were taken from there by the temple’s employees. The video depicting a well-known action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was mounted from the Elokhov Cathedral, it was there that the members of the group managed to deploy the guitars. People who know the Epiphany Cathedral, identified its interiors. In the video, ”Chaplin said, adding that all this“ once again proves that the action was prepared in advance. ”

The day before, the Council of Orthodox Public Associations made a statement "regarding the blasphemous action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior." It states that "a crime committed by Pussy Riot participants," must be convicted of all the severity of the law. "" We are united in condemning an impudent anti -Christian trick. We are one in the fact that we consider this “action” a crime that must be convicted throughout the severity of the law, ”the statement said.

“We do not understand those who call on the Holiness Patriarch, our brothers and sisters to“ forgive ”the blasphemy, call the state not to condemn and punish them. If the Primate of the Church forgives them today, will this lead to a ten -fold multiplication of blasphemous“ shares ”, to the fact that the Orthodox will be supplanted from public space, and the holy space of the temples will be made by the platform for muffles and the holy space rudeness of atheists? " - The authors of the application write.

“We hope that this exam will not end with the spiritual fall of our brothers and sisters. If they are not with the militant church, which is also the image of the Church of the triumphant, then they are not with Christ. In general, the current situation is a test of the viability of our people. If Russia suffers what happened, then it can be taken with their bare hands, then the people will no longer stand up for faith and the Fatherland,” the statement says.

Currently, three alleged Pussy Riot participants are charged with hooliganism in connection with punk-ground in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were detained until the end of April. They face up to seven years in prison.

Earlier, a group of Orthodox believers turned to the Patriarch with a request to "show a Christian attitude towards the Pussy Riot group and petition the court to close this criminal case." "We also ask you to make an appeal to all members of the Orthodox Church and give an example of a Christian reaction to the event that the event that has stopped the hatred and anger that the parishioners of the Orthodox Church during the days of the Great Lent are brought down on the heads of four girls," the open letter compiled by the well -known charitable Lida Moniava.

The Pussy Riot group previously explained the meaning of the action in the XXS in its blog: "Once peaceful hundred thousandth demonstrations do not give an immediate result, we will ask the Virgin to drive Putin as soon as possible before Easter." In January, the group arranged a spontaneous concert in the frontal place of Red Square with the song "Putin Zassal". The girls were detained by the FSO officers, later two participants in the action were fined 500 rubles.

On the Internet, personal data of the performance participants in the XXC and the threat of reprisal were published. The "revealing list" of the girls from the Pussy Riot group with photos and home addresses appeared on right -wing sites and on the blogs of activists. Publications were accompanied by calls for reprisal.