it was the church that sort of tough sentence for them wasn't the official position of the russian orthodox church on this and what is your personal view. that able to see that the church which purposefully sought a tough sentence for the girls this is total nonsense stuff. because there was indeed an argument among russian lewis as to whether the act of the goes was a criminal offense or in the main city of offense. no if you excuse my speculation if i were a judge myself i would have regarded it as an administrative offense. and i would have combined it with only a piece offenses. and i would have handed them down a fine oh about three hundred roubles. you if you were authorized by the church yes that's and if. you ask the court to release them to the church to correct them in some other way. rather than by sending them to prison. no i wouldn't. work. you mean some people can't change. that's not the point that if i were authorized i would give them a three hundred fine and let them walk that would have caused an explosion but people would have said how come you give them a fine for such a terri

this repeatedly throughout the past months and years before this desecration inside the the russian orthodox church in moscow now you mention satan is in there but the women themselves said that this wasn't aimed at offending the church that they were just making a political statement and i think freedom of speech does not permit people to make while they were making sexual gestures in tights and so forth and with masks on and you can argue these are only old believers who were there and so forth that's their right to worship in the way they want to unhindered and uninterrupted and that's a desecration if that were done in a synagogue in new york city or tell of the i can assure you that the people who would do such a disruption would be spending. much longer term or in the u.k. that i think in the u.k. there would be a limit the maximum in jail is fourteen years not seven as it is in russia do you think that the media outrage over this was because it was happening in russia yes or no no question in my mind why russia well i think the point is to put russia on the defensive internationally especial

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this repeatedly throughout the past months and years before this desecration inside the the russian orthodox church in moscow thank you very much thank you when talking. in this remote siberian zealots people still seeing the sun switch russians saying to demean angels and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set out to change before the seventeenth century the only believers here is sign here. our conservative community they're known as the simi skeer a word which refers to families. that have a good leaders need there yet i feel. i know i'm the right fredricka by. god that. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. use of. a girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. seventeen year old is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok ok well. i didn't ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this morning world b

worldwide certainly in recent weeks and we talked to one of the most respected priests of the russian orthodox church. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so horribly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. courageous and creative. elegant and full and public speaking. the sound of. a few european bodybuilders against millions of weak immigrants. it may not seem so serious now. but this could be a real threat to. european extremists. on policy. he won't come to the playfish for a swimming bird you can catch both at the premier maritime aviation show of the summer check out a whole family of russian engineering feats that have let ships truly fly or just go with the flow and take in the view of the bay below but hold on there could be turbulence on board the plane it's only jet powered insidious plane that marcello really. paired up with the world's most colorful chopper and you've got a team good to joust in the fleet techn

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to many thinking people when vladimir putin former kgb colleague took over as head of the russian orthodox churchafter this happened, christ the savior cathedral began to be used openly as a flashy setting for the politics of this carrier services, the main source of power in russia. >> that was jailed member katya samutsevich. the scene in the courtroom with the glass cage that your wife and the other two women were in? >> first of all, the cage was bilked for basically the first major enemy of putin and built after he won a case against russia this said he cannot have people in metal cages, but must be in glass cages. basically, they put them in his glass cage during the trial. >> and what putin has to say about these young women? >> usually, he would not touch such sensitive issues of people getting sent to prison for political reasons. basically, he did not directly say much, but he went on to elaborate how these girls have been doing strange political art for years. he went on to describe events by voina. >> that is your group. >> yes. saying that these people were doing horrible and strange

russians still have painful memories of the early years of soviet rule when thousands of orthodox muslim as well as the clergy from other religions were person. did soviet authours he's literally repressed the clergy many churches were destroyed but the attacks had a devastating effect on all our traditional religions and so in general i think the state has to protect the feelings of believers or it your view i will not comment on whether the verdict is well grounded in the sentence proportionate to the offense in which these girls must have lawyers who defend their interests in court they have the right to file an appeal and demand a new hearing they say it's up to them it's just a legal issue it's just the just. isn't realistic until you think they will get some sort of early release yet there is no i don't know whether their lawyers have filed an appeal not i don't follow the case that closely if they appeal a higher court is empowered to take any decision to turn up to be honest i try to stay as far away from the case as possible if i know the details but i do not want to get into it it will option yes no took place at the station because there's concern here and abroad that russia has been suffering i clim