και αυτό που απάντησα ήταν απάντηση στην απάντησή σου, αλλά μάλλον δεν το κατάλαβες.+ "μετά να δεις τι σημαίνει η συγκεκριμένη εκκλησία για τους πιστούς της Ρωσίας, αν ο λαός της Ρωσίας ήταν υπέρ των Pussy Riot στην δίκη κλπ"αμπεμπαμπλομ! καιρός για το αναγνωστικό της 1ης δημοτικού:But Pussy Riot’s complete lack of traction in Russian society (fully two thirds of Russians think the band’s two year prison sentence was either appropriate or too-light) isn’t the slightest bit mysterious. It’s actually incredibly simple. Why? Well the Pussy Rioters have made no secret of their contempt for the Orthodox Church. Not without reason, they consider the church irredeemably corrupted by its association with the Kremlin. This is why they decided to perform in a cathedral: there was no better place for them to criticize the increasingly close connection between organized politics and organized religion.The problem is that increasingly large numbers of Russians identify themselves as believers. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2014/02/09/why-pussy-riot-failed-in-one-chart/In fact, though, there is little evidence that they have any sort of influence on Russian public opinion at all. Most Russians regard Pussy Riot with outright hostility. As one recent public opinion survey revealed, the number of Russians who view the prison sentence the two women received as either fair or too soft has actually grown in the two years since they went to jail: The figure is now 66 percent. (A reminder: Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were convicted on charges of "hooliganism" after performing an impromptu anti-Putin concert in a Moscow cathedral in 2012.)But the overarching sentiment regarding Pussy Riot back home can probably be characterized more accurately as general indifference. The broader opposition movement in Russia has never embraced Pussy Riot -- perhaps because members of the group exult in their reputation as radical avant-gardists, a position that is scarcely calculated to gain much traction with the country's deeply conservative mainstream. (...) "Pussy Riot, who galvanized Western outrage over Putin's repressive regime, evokes a more complicated response at home." Andrew Monaghan of the London think tank Chatham House, who tracks public opinion in Russia, puts it with rather less understatement:"My sense is that most Russians just don't give a damn."http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/02/07/snow_blindWHY DID PUSSY RIOT TARGET A CHURCH?The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a symbol of government corruption to many Russians, explains Pyotr Verzilov, the husband of Nadia.It was blown up in the 1930s and later turned into a swimming pool. After the fall of Communism, Moscow's mayor, Yury Luzhkov, raised $1bn from organised crime to restore the cathedral."It became a very important governmental symbol," Verzilov told The Observer. "And it's supposed to be the most sacred place in Russia. But it's very commercialised: there's a massive parking garage under it, and banqueting halls you can hire out for $10,000 a day."More than this, though, is how the church has started to act as if it is the propaganda wing of the government. Before the election, Patriarch Kirill said that it was 'un-Christian' to demonstrate. And then he said that Putin had been placed at the head of the government 'by God'. No one was talking about this before. And now everybody is."http://www.theweek.co.uk/russia/pussy-riot/48217/who-are-pussy-riot-and-why-has-putin-put-them-trial#ixzz2uGLnCkgY"Holy Mother, Blessed Virgin, chase Putin out," they sang. The Holy Mother remained as elusive as ever, but Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow, is more than content to keep Putin's money launderers in the Temple. He has struck a deal. Putin offers the Orthodox church a partial restoration of its tsarist privileges: state aid for the restoration of churches the communists destroyed; and the return of priests to the schools and universities. Kirill returns the favour by making support for the Kremlin kleptomaniacs a quasi-religious duty. Everyone quotes his statement that Putin's rule was a "miracle of God". But they miss the hysterical assertion that before Putin's divine intervention Russia was in as bad a state as when the Nazis invaded in 1941. Those who protested against Putin's rigged election, continued Vsevolod Chaplin, spokesman for the Moscow patriarchate, were comparable to foreign agents. They were "under the influence of puppet masters" – manipulated and suspect.http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/19/nick-cohen-pussy-riot-putinOnly the foundations had been laid when the Second World War brought an abrupt end to such an ambitious project, and Stalin's successor, Nikita Khruschev, had no stomach for such grandiose displays of hubris. The project was abandoned, and the site turned over to become an open-air swimming pool, the largest in the world, which was kept at a temperature of 27°C all year round. The result was a thick covering of fog that shrouded a number of gruesome deaths (and murders) among the swimmers.The symbolic significance of the site was reaffirmed after the fall of the Soviet Union, when ambitious Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov joined forces with the Orthodox Church to resurrect the cathedral in a $360-million reconstruction project. Completed in 2000, the new cathedral is loosely based on Ton's original designs, but constructed with modern building materials and fitted out with all mod-cons including air conditioning, telecommunications facilities, elevators and underground parking. Visitors can only see the cathedral as part of an organized tour, one of the highlights of which is the panoramic view from the 40-meter-high observation platform.http://www.moscow.info/orthodox-moscow/cathedral-christ-saviour.aspx