"GOD'S
WILL" SPLIT BECAUSE OF ENTEO'S FRIENDSHIP WITH PUSSY RIOT MEMBER
Orthodox
activists from the movement "God's Will" quarreled because the
leader
of the organization, Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo), collaborated with
a member of
the notorious punk group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina.
On Tuesday, one
of the representatives of "God's Will," the main defendant in
the
case of the pogrom in the Manezh, Liudmila Odegova (Eispenko),
posted on her
Facebook page an announcement that from now on only she is
heading the
movement. Odegova accused Enteo of friendship with "unrepentant
blasphemers,"
sacrilege, and slander.
The leader of
the Orthodox public movement "God's Will," Dmitry Tsorionov,
nicknamed Enteo, on 14 August 2015, along with his supporters,
damaged works of
the 1960s and 1970s in an exhibit in the Moscow Manezh,
"Sculptures that
we have not seen," declaring that they offended believers'
feelings.
"This is a
personal affront. Mila did not like the demonstration when I
called people of
the most diverse views to come to the Ministry of Justice and
support the right
of each person to read the Bible without the consent of
bureaucrats. Masha
Alekhina came to our demonstration," Tsorionov explained for RIA
Novosti.
He said that Odegova did not come to the demonstration because
of this.
Pussy Riot is
the notorious punk group in Russia whose members in February
2012 arrived at
the church of Christ the Savior in Moscow and, wearing masks,
conducted a
so-called punk prayer service. Videos with the performance were
posted on the
Internet and evoked an enormous outcry. At the time, "God's
Will"
demanded the harshest punishment for participants in the action.
"Masha
still found in herself the courage, desire, and strength to come
and support
Christians with all her heart at the Ministry of Justice. I
appreciated this
very much. People do not understand that Maria is a most
interesting, profound
person who now is engaged, in my view, in proper things. She is
a person who has
devoted herself to real help for prisoners. She came to believe
in God,"
Tsorionov explained.
In his opinion,
nowadays "God's Will" has fulfilled its mission. From now on
Tsorionov has decided to devote himself to the movement of
"Decommunization." At the same time, he says, Odegova prefers to
quarrel and not to search for "points of common interest."
After the
"punk prayer service" in the church of Christ the Savior, police
arrested three members of the demonstration—Maria Alekhina,
Nadezhda
Tolokonnikova, and Ekaterina Samutsevich. The Khamovnich court
of Moscow in
August 2012 sentenced them to two years in a prison colony of
general regime
for hooliganism. In October of the same year, a Moscow city
court commuted
Samutsevich's sentence to a suspended one.
In December
2013, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were released from the penal
colony in
connection with the amnesty to coincide with the 20th
anniversary of the
constitution of the Russian federation. (tr. by PDS, posted 4
October 2017)
Background articles:
Vigilantism
incident not going away quietly
August 18, 2015 m m m,
August 21, 2015
Vigilantism
in art exhibit may yet be punished
September 8, 2015
Punk protest commotion continues
March 22, 2012
Orthodox sign petitions
March 19, 2012
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