A cross was broken near the church in Omsk

In Omsk, near the church of the Holy Martyr Sylvester, a wooden cross was broken in the Kirov district. According to the Omskpress agency, the incident occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday. None of the clergy and parishioners saw the participants of the action. In place, the investigative-operational police group is working.

This is not the first similar case in the city. In early October 2012, unknown people painted a cross with red paint, installed on the territory of the University of Omsk on the site where it is supposed to build a chapel. Participants in the action left a note in which they condemned the policy of the Russian Orthodox Church, aimed at inflating - up to sacralization - the identity of Vladimir Putin. “Religion cannot be two -faced,” the note said, “as it becomes a political prostitute.”

At the end of August, three worshipers in the Chelyabinsk region and one in Arkhangelsk were cut. Responsibility for all four shares was taken by the Movement "People’s Volya". "The chopping of the Crosses of the Russian Orthodox Church in the village of Samelovsky of the Verkhneuralsky district of the Chelyabinsk region and in Arkhangelsk, in the city district of the Varavi-factory, is part of the operation against the Russian Orthodox Church under the code name" Crossed "and was performed by the combat wing of our movement, the volatile war detachments" Unknown, "the movement on the page on Facebook.

The participants in the movement claimed that the attacks on the signs of the Russian Orthodox Church followed in response to the "statements of the militants of the Russian Orthodox Church on the creation of armed squads", "for the reprisal of the Russian Orthodox Church over defenseless Russian girls from Pussy Riot." "We demand immediate liberation of the group members, attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church will continue until our requirements are fulfilled in full," the statement said. The press release also contained an appeal to all the sound forces of Russian society "Enough from the Russian Orthodox Church", which "has nothing to do with Orthodoxy."

On August 17, on the day the sentence was announced to the Pussy Riot participants, activists of the Ukrainian movement Femen held a joint of solidarity with Russian colleagues in Kyiv. Activist Inna Shevchenko cut down a wooden cross over the Maidan of Nebulia at the former October Palace. After that, with her arms outstretched, she herself took the place of the cross. "This act Femen calls on all the healthy forces of society to mercilessly cut out from the brain to rotten religious prejudices, serving a support for dictatorship and impede the development of democracy and freedom of women," the group said.