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| Pussy Riot play in Moscow disrupted twice |
| 2013-03-04 |
| The performance of a play about the embattled Russian protest group Pussy Riot was interrupted in Moscow when immigration officials approached the Swiss director to demand his travel documents. Immigration authorities confirmed they had entered the Andrei Sakharov Museum, where the play was being staged, and determined that director Milo Rau was holding a business visa that did not allow for “work activity.” The play was later disrupted again when Orthodox activists and Cossacks gathered outside the venue to protest what they claimed was the play’s antireligious content. The play, called “The Moscow Trials,” portrays the story of last year’s trial of three Pussy Riot members for hooliganism after staging a protest against Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 My (meager) understanding of the situation is that PR got in trouble more for holding their impromptu concert in a church than for dissing Putin. Even after all that communism - or maybe because - the Orthodox Church is not the C of E. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-03-04 21:08 |
| #2 No, Bill dear, they're a rock band...or according to Wikipedia, a feminist punk rock collective, whatever that means. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-04 18:19 |
| #1 What or who is rioting again or are the prostitutes on strike again? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-04 17:53 |