Captured by the Orthodox

Putin punished Nadya Tolokonnikova, Masha Alekhina and Katya Samutsevich for a punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior with 2 years in prison. I see it this way and no other way. He punished him for infringing on his own libido, for “PutinZassal” on Red Square, for the Mother of God, who, according to the girls, should drive him away as soon as possible, but for some reason he is still delaying.

It is useless to hint to the authorities that this process is taking place within a secular state and we do not have an article for insulting the feelings of believers, and, therefore, there cannot be a crime in that action, no matter how much the prosecution would like to get it.

But only Pussy Riot’s lawyers dared to insist on this unforgivable insolence: Nikolai Polozov, Alexander Feigin and Violetta Volkova, as well as many citizens in solidarity with them, who do not want to see the fusion of state and church for the sake of common selfish interests. Throughout the past week, they came to the building of the Khamovnichesky Court, where the case was heard, to express their support for the arrested girls. On August 17, on the day the verdict was announced, these “atheists” naturally also came. But more about them later.

The work of the investigation and the prosecutor's office, of course, was complicated by the absence of at least formal signs of a crime, but in no case did it bother them. As a result, the valiant authorities still managed to bring charges of hooliganism committed by a group of people by prior conspiracy. I would even say that in this case a punk group of individuals.

The situation was much more complicated with the application of Art. 282. - incitement of religious hatred or enmity, but thanks to the expertise of a number of “authoritative experts on issues of blasphemy and blasphemy,” this problem was solved. Thus, we got full-fledged extremists, so dangerous that yesterday at the trial the girls were kept in a glass box, each handcuffed, surrounded by nine armed special forces and two guard dogs (!). Just footage from a film about the cannibal Lector, only the muzzles were not enough to create the full ambiance. Maybe the girls threatened to bite the law enforcement officers? For sure!

Russian judicial reality, to put it mildly, is upsetting in its readiness to replace established legal norms with non-existent ones in order to make a “correct” verdict. So, for example, this trial revealed to us what turns out to be the most important sources of modern law, such as the Council of Trullo in 691. Based on quotes from this church document from the time of the Roman dinosaurs, the prosecutor's office skillfully built the indictment. Candlesticks, housekeepers, altar boys (the latter even have their own website, “Altarniki.ru”, guess what?) became the protagonists of the bacchanalia that was going on within the walls of the Khamovnichesky court. Taking turns, they gave testimony, talking about the mental suffering the scandalous action of Pussy Riot caused them. A candlemaker named Sologorskaya, when asked by the lawyers: “What kind of psychological trauma did she receive because of the action in the KhHS?”, answered: “Very deep! I couldn’t count money normally, which interfered with the normal functioning of the temple.” A certain man was also invited as a witness, who was not present at all in the temple at the time of the action. A few days later, he watched a video uploaded to the Internet with the defendants dancing and felt acute mental pain, so he watched the video again. I think if he watched the video for the third time, he would involuntarily start singing along, becoming an ardent supporter of Pussy Riot, but...

Judge Marina Syrova shone with innovative proposals in the field of Russian jurisprudence. The verdict repeatedly mentioned: “By their act they insulted the feelings of believers, they insulted God...”. With Syrova’s light hand, the concept of “god” materialized. Now “god” is a legitimate subject of law, if that. At the same time, the court completely ignored the political motivation of the case. Putin's name was not mentioned even once in the text of the verdict.

But special attention was paid to violating purely church tenets. “The girls climbed onto the pulpit and turned their backs to the altar, which is a violation...” Judge Syrova reads out. I want to shout in her face: “Violation of what?!” The Criminal Code, the Constitution of the Russian Federation or the fucking Trullo Council!”

Throughout the entire trial, the judge did not accept the defense’s arguments, refused to include in the case the testimony of some “inconvenient” eyewitnesses of the action, and very often, with obvious disapproval, repeated about the “so-called feminist movement,” although female judges always seemed to me to be such emancipated ladies.

An international crush formed at the entrance to the courtroom, because the process attracted the attention of many foreign media from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, as a result of which only a few journalists, mainly television crews, managed to get inside. The rest had to continue jostling on the stairs and in the hall, where caring court workers brought out speakers so that journalists could hear Judge Syrova’s indictment. The speech is so absurd and sometimes comical that the authorship, it seems to me, belongs to the pen of Kharms, Kafka and Saltykov-Shchedrin at the same time.

The situation on the street at this time was rapidly heating up. About two thousand supporters and opponents of the prisoners gathered: “white ribbon activists,” nationalists, civil and Orthodox activists. Some chanted the constant: “Freedom for Pussy Riot!”, others repeated something about “rebellious vaginas,” trying to read some kind of sermons and pretending to be sinless and pious. One of these sinless and devout people came in a priest’s costume (I say: in a priest’s costume, because I doubt whether this religious figure is ordained), he called for the girls to be given to the Cossacks, who also came. Send for re-education? I’m not sure, considering with what lustful smile the priest said this. Surprisingly, Syrova did not make an official decision to organize Cossack lynching.

There were a lot of cops. And astronauts and those who are simpler. 7th Rostovsky Lane, where the court is located, was cordoned off on both sides. There were also many arrests. The famous oppositionist Garry Kasparov was not only detained, but also beaten. Information has emerged that the detainees managed to stuff the insides of as many as five paddy wagons. In general, in our country the paddy wagon is a sought-after “star”. At the moment when a paddy wagon drives up and begins to drive, it will certainly be applauded, and when it drives off to the nearest police station too. You know, the kind of applause with sarcasm.

Closer to 17:00, Syrova finally finished reading her papers, establishing the guilt of the defendants and concluding that the criminal actions of the cult musicians had undoubtedly already been fully proven. “... Tolokonnikova, Alekhina, Samutsevich should be sentenced to two years in prison,” Judge Syrova put an end to both the sentence and her reputation.

What happened there in those seconds - the lights went out, lightning struck, the walls collapsed? No. The curtain fell. From under the curtain there were not very loud sounds: “Shame”, “Lustration” and “Oh..net”.

In the end, everything happened, as rapper Syava prophesied in his recent greetings from real boys to real feminists: “Pussy Riot, a period awaits you behind bars.” Each of the three members of the feminist group Pussy Riot will spend 2 years behind bars in a general regime colony.

Not to say that this turned out to be the biggest surprise.

The biggest surprise was the realization that many Orthodox believers are not offended by either custom-made prayer services, or drunken priests who get into accidents in blue BMWs, or scandals with the patriarch’s watch and corporate gatherings at the same KhHS, but the girls’ actions offend the most . Yes, I must admit, the act is controversial if you evaluate it from a moral and moral point of view. But, having looked into it, it will become clear that that action was political and the church acted only as a reason to protest against the regime, and insulting the feelings of believers was not intended at all.

For some reason, I hope that all these evil and intolerant Orthodox Christians who are not yet embarrassed to consider themselves such, heart-rendingly shouting demands for rape, quartering or public flogging of “blasphemers”, they are in the minority or hired. I absolutely do not trust the statistics of the Levada Center, which found that the majority of Russian citizens approve of the court’s actions in relation to Pussy Riot. I don't believe them! And don't believe it. Levada Center, as usual, serves the interests of the authorities, who benefit from such public opinion regarding the high-profile case.

“A Russian person is kind, he forgives,” the writer Eduard Limonov once wrote in his LiveJournal. I like this idea. Maybe that’s why the Russians won so many wars that they remained human.

The girls were given 2 years. For the dance. And the scumbag Tsepovyaz got off with a fine of 150 thousand rubles. for concealing the murder of 12 people in Kushchevka. Curious parallels. You can do a lot of these.