Word comes that
Criminal charges have been pressed against a Finnish university professor who attempted to imitate a “punk prayer” by the Russian feminist group Pussy Riot.
Here is the story in Russian.
Teivo Teivanen, professor and head of the Political Science Department at the University of Helsinki, and a group of masked girls, was prevented from staging a protest rally and a performance near the Cathedral of Assumption in Helsinki.
What is particularly interesting about the criminal charges is that they were laid by, among others,human right activist Johan Baeckman, who represents the Anti-Fascist Committee of Finland. Ahem!
The cathedral belongs to the Finnish Orthodox Church, an autonomous Church under Constantinople. They broke ties with the Russian Orthodox Church in 1923. I wonder what Pussy Riot thinks about such attacks. It would bear on the question of whether this is anti-religious protest or a protest against Russia's renewed appropriation of religion, Putin's idea of renewing Russia through symphonia.
ReplyDeleteSo few people seem to care whether this situation is political, religious, or both. That indifference is a mistake.
From what I have gathered in our discussions you consider it to be indifference when people disagree with you. Renewing Russia through symphonia, eh? Would that be the same as making the Church completely the tool of the state, happily agreed to by the chief prelates who are as corrupt as the politicians?
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