OZPP appealed to the prosecutor's office with another lawsuit against the management of the KhHS

August 6 2012, the Consumer Rights Protection Society (OZPP) applied to the prosecutor's office Moscow with the requirement to " attract officials of the metochion of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' to criminal responsibility for committing arbitrariness by unauthorized order premises belonging to the city of Moscow .

OZPP indicates that under the agreement on joint use of the premises of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (XXC), concluded between the Foundation XXC and the Metochion of the Patriarch February 1, 2006, 78 rooms were transferred to the Metochion, in the number of which does not include the premises of the upper temple, which remained in the property of the city of Moscow and in trust management of the XXC Foundation. religious organization Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, according to the OZPP, " legally registered rights to conduct religious ceremonies or the use of this premises for their own purposes is not has ”, and, accordingly, cannot establish its own rules.

« Russian The Federation is a secular state, and therefore no religious organization is not entitled to install in premises that do not belong to it, which are public place, own order of conduct, enter for visitors any restrictions or restrictions. Moreover, these actions of the religious organization Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' to establish own order of conduct, the introduction of prohibitions in a public place and restrictions based on the rules of the Trullian and Laocidian ecclesiastical cathedrals, should be qualified as arbitrariness (Article 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) ”, - said in the statement.

Sources

• Pussy Riot was sung on the part of the temple that does not belong to the Russian Orthodox Church // Official website of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights. 2012. 6 August.