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Judge Syrova said Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, had offended the feelings of Orthodox believers and shown a "complete lack of respect".

The court does find a religious hatred motive in the actions of the defendants by way of them being feminists who consider men and women to be equal.

Now gender equally is asserted, maintained by the Russian constitution where all people are proclaimed equal irrespective of their gender, race, nationality political affiliation and so on.

Any form of limiting rights of citizens based on their gender and so on are banned by the Russian constitution. Men and women have equal opportunities in Russia.

People who consider themselves feminists presently struggle for actual equality [for women]. These activities are not considered criminal in accordance with the Russian law.

At the same time, Orthodox Christianity, and Catholic Christianity and other denominations do not agree with feminism and their own values are not in line with feminists.

In a modern society relations between various nationalities and between religious denominations must be based on mutual respect and equality and idea that one political movement can be superior to another gives root to perspective hatred between various opinions.

i . . . i have no idea what that says. because political institutions and religious institutions must operate together within a nation, anything that contradicts the prevailing religious viewpoint should be viewed as illegal, even when the nation's constitution says it isn't? that's cooperation in a modern society? oh, russia.

It's, uhhhh... interesting to me that some of the 'Internet Comments' on this are comparing it to Americaland... In that, y'know... well, you know...

It's, uhhhh... interesting to me that some of the 'Internet Comments' on this are comparing it to Americaland... In that, y'know... well, you know...

The Berlin Wall. It was like hearing someone had dismantled Everest or filled in the Pacific Ocean. Revolution swept through the region, until a huge crowd assembled in Bucharest, where they'd been ordered to cheer Ceausescu. As he waved to the crowd a section booed. On the television, you could see Ceausescu's shocked face. Within seconds the whole crowd was booing and the revolution was underway. The unanswerable question is 'Who started the booing?' Someone must have been whispering to a friend, 'I'm thinking of booing. If I start, will you join in?' Maybe the whole crowd was alive with mutterings of 'you first'. But the underlying animosity towards the dictators, combined with the sense that as governments fell around them, anything was possible, meant that one boo was enough to spark a revolution.

Who's for the first 'boo'?