Civil Liberties

Vigilante Street Watch, Orthodox Style

Church squads will guard churches and religious sites against Pussy Riot inspired events in Moscow

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No one could have predicted that the Pussy Riot trial, which was basically a secular trail for the decidedly non-secular crime of "blasphemy," would stir up a hornets nest of outraged religious reactionaries. Let's take a look at this extremely worrying story from the BBC's Russia service: