Western neoliberal ideology attempts to destroy all that is of conservative or traditional values. Where there is no consensus and no national interests - it is easier to pass almost any legislation at all. While Europeans have already, for the most part, been robbed and guilt-tripped out of their unique identities - the same template tends to backfire when applied to Russia.
In 2012- 2013, the punk band "Pussy Riot" took on the role of a marionette of Western propaganda against the Russian state. Its mandate was to attack the "human rights record" of the Russian government and as such, help paint Vladimir Putin as a "dictator" - by now, a fully absorbed aspect of CIA vernacular, espoused onto the American public.
In 2012, the members of Pussy Riot stormed into a Moscow cathedral, defaming the government, while mocking the beliefs of churchgoers with vulgarity and disruptive behaviour. They received a 2 year sentence in the process, but were released early in 2013 - only to cause a scene at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Having completed their task, they went on to CNN to interview about their ordeal. Any person with at least a half a brain understands, that if they were free to do this (the CNN interview took place in their home, in Russia) - then their allegations of not living in a free country, are contrary to logic.
The Pussy Riot performance was marketed as an act of "freedom of expression" by the Western media, but constituted what would be called both a religious hate-crime and disorderly conduct in any Western country. Similar cases have played out in the West, where perceived violation of free speech of bigots, racists, and hooligans resulted in very harsh penalties.
The double standards here are obscene.
If that wasn't sufficient, Pussy Riot had received direct funding from the National Endowment of Democracy (NED, a Soros "NGO") - which, receives its funds from the US State Department. In turn, the NED is not an NGO at all, but a not-so-covert tool of infiltration into the civil society of a sovereign state.
Soros' NED was kicked out of Russia in 2015, to the woeful cries of CNN "-There is no freedom of expression under Vladimir Putin!" Put a sock in it, Amanpour. And by the way, CNN host Christiane Amanpour's husband, James Rubin, used to work for the US State Department, which provides funds to the NED. Nothing incestuous here folks, move right along....
(The men in the end clip are not "Putin's police" but Cossacks - voluntary security at the Olympic Games.)
I should've known Putin would have the classiest take-down of group sex ever...