Actually they were protesting the Russian Orthodox Church for going along quietly with Putin's elimination of the free press and free speech. In Putin's Russia that gets you put in Mordovia.
Thank you. There’s a disturbing amount of totalitarianism fanboys on FR these days...
So, are you rooting for a communist who forcing her way to altar in a #1 national Cathedral to scream profanity just because her “ends justify means”? Isn’t it too much Leninesque on your side?
Are you familiar with other stunts by this group?
In Barky's America making an anti-muslim video gets you made the Benghazi scapegoat and thrown in prison.
“Actually they were protesting the Russian Orthodox Church for going along quietly with Putin’s elimination of the free press and free speech.”
I did not recall that specifically from when I first heard about it, so I looked it up, and Wikipedia mentions nothing of free press and free speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot
Based on their acts, IMHO, they got just what they deserved.