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In 2012, the Pussy Riot feminist rock band provoked a scandal within Russia's community after it staged an unsanctioned performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
In 2012, the Pussy Riot feminist rock band provoked a scandal within Russia's community after it staged an unsanctioned performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
As a journalist of a large Russian publication, I often interview Western politicians. Technically, though, most of these people are marginal, political outsiders, and have zero access to mainstream media due to their "right-wing" views.
When I talk to them, one thing always amazes me - How many of my Western friends see Russia as a conservative paradise, a wonderful land with ultraconservative values, happy heterosexual families like out of a '50s TV commercial, and pure unadulterated Orthodox Christianity. It reminds me of the way European adventurers used to believe there was an El Dorado somewhere in Peru, where the streets were paved in gold.
Comment: Compassion for refugees is well and good, but many of the migrants don't come under that category. The composition of the various groups have been described as overwhelmingly "fighting-age males". Many have moved for economic reasons. The author has also ignored the tremendous social dislocation that unchecked numbers of migrants have brought to Europe. It apparently has been an intended consequence.