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In Arkady Mamontov’s film “Provocateurs-2,” shown yesterday on the Rossiya 1 TV channel as part of the “Special Correspondent” program, a version was put forward that Boris Berezovsky and “some Americans” were behind the Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The film by Arkady Mamontov was a continuation of the first , shown back in April. Then the journalist called those who staged the “dances with blasphemous singing” “possessed” and their action a “sabbath.” Now an employee of the state channel has classified as “blasphemers” all those who deny the “Divine in our lives.” “If you are against any traditional religion, then you are an extremist, you are against the state,” he concluded.

Mamontov was echoed by the former head of the investigation team in the Pussy Riot case, Artem Ranchenkov, who called the action in the temple “a provocation with a capital letter.” The group members could not be forgiven, he said, not for legal reasons, but because “if they had been forgiven, everything could have ended even more tragically, it would have gone even further and ended with more serious consequences - they are really revolutionaries, really demons who wanted change our government structure."

Boris Berezovsky has already responded to the accusations brought against him. “I have nothing to do with Pussy Riot,” he said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy. - Of course, I did not discuss any Pussy Riot project with him (with the leader of the public organization "Preobrazhenie" Alexei Veshnyak - the main witness of Berezovsky's involvement in Mamontov's film - EZH). But if I came up with this as a project, I would be proud. This is a very creative project. This is a very correct topic: the relationship between society and the church, to what extent today the Orthodox Church is truly the spiritual leader of the nation.”