Source: Asia Times:
As the father of one of the women jailed for a “blasphemous” anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s main cathedral noted, there were two Russias present in the courtroom – the liberals and the traditionalists – and they hated each other’s guts. Yet while most Russians consider themselves non-religious, Christian Orthodoxy is embedded in Russian nationalism, and it is in that sense that Pussy Riot’s behavior was judged as spitting in the face of the whole nation, not just that of the church, and not just Vladimir Putin’s.