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CHURCH DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, NOVGOROD
56°19'35.40N 43°59'24.84E
ST. ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL, ST.PETERSBURG 59°56'2.78N 30°18'22.37E
IBERIAN GATE, RED SQUARE, MOSCOW 55°45'20.31N 37°37'4.79E
THE MOTHERLAND CALLS, BOLGOGRAD 48°44'32.37N 44°32'14.08E
CHURCH OF SAVIOR, ST.PETERSBURG 59°56'24.46N 30°19'43.56E
BOLSHOI THEATRE, MOSCOW 55°45'35.83N 37°37'7.89E
SPASSKY CATHEDRAL STAROYARMAROCHNY,NOVGOROD
56°19'53.13N 43°57'14.34E
THE HOLY TRINITY,BELFY,SERGIEV POSAD 56°18'37.86N 38° 7'46.45E
WRANGEL TOWER, KALININGRAD 54°43'21.52N 20°30'52.40E
WINDMILL, KIZHI ISLAND 62° 3'50.57N 35°13'32.55E
RED SQUARE, MOSCOW 55°45'22.97N 37°36'55.86E
CHURCH OF LAZARUS,KISHI ISLAND 62° 3'55.03N 35°13'32.30E
CENTRAL BANK, NIZHNY NOVGOROD 56°19'12.58N 43°59'56.03E
KING'S GATE,KALININGRAD 54°42'49.32N 20°32'10.66E
TEMPLE OF ALL-MERCIFUL SAVIOUR,NOVGOROD 56°19'8.66N 44° 1'27.57E
TABACHKOV(MOTHER OF GOD MONASTERY RUINS),KAZAN
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3RD CAVALRY BUILDING, MOSCOW 55°37'2.60N 37°40'47.23E
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF MARY,NOVGOROD 56°19'38.17N 43°59'7.40E
CCTV: Russian girl model robs bank 'for fun' / Модель ограбила банк в России
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A Russian model entered a cash-advance bank in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday morning pointing a pneumatic gun at an employee. After being detained she pleaded guilty, but said she had committed the robbery 'for fun' as the city -- which she was visiting - depressed her. She added that she would return the stolen cash (100,000 rubles, around $3,000). The young woman is now under house arrest and faces up to 10 years in prison.
Pussy Riot member 'attacked' in prison in Russia
Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has been attacked by prison guards, according to her lawyer Irina Khrunova. Irina Khrunova claims the protester had her elbows held behind her back and then dragged from a room in which she had been getting legal advice. Although, it was not witnessed.
Russian officials have admitted using limited force against Alyokhina but deny beating her up. A local spokesman said Alyokhina was led out of the room and called her lawyer's statement a provocation.
Irina Khrunova said she doubted the official explanation of events.
I know who Alyokhina is and how she look like. Her body build is absolutely incompatible with policemen or guards using force against her. She has never posed any danger for them, and I don't believe that she refused to obey commands of prison guards when they told her to leave the room. Alyokhina does not behave like that. She would complain, she would lodge official complaints but she would never resist prison guards, Khrunova said.
Alyokhina and her two bandmates were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred last August after performing a punk song against Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral. Report by Ashley Fudge.
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Pussy Riot Members Released From Prison
KRASNOYARSK, Russia (AP) -- The third member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been released from custody following an amnesty law passed by parliament.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova left the prison colony in the eastern Siberian city Krasnoyarsk on Monday, hours after another band member, Maria Alekhina, was released in another region.
The amnesty that enabled their release is seen as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights record ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
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A member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot was released from prison Monday, saying that the amnesty bill that gave her freedom was a Kremlin public relations stunt.
Maria Alekhina was one of two band members who were granted amnesty last week, which was largely viewed as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights records ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
The release of the other, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, is pending. The third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on suspended sentence months after all three were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison for the performance at Moscow's main cathedral in March 2012.
The band members insisted their protest was meant to raise their concern about increasingly close ties between the state and the church.
Alekhina was released from the prison colony outside the Volga river city of Nizhny Novgorod on Monday morning, said Irina Khrunova, her lawyer.
Russian parliament passed the amnesty bill last week, allowing the release of thousands of inmates. Alekhina and Tolokonnikova qualify for amnesty because they have small children.
Alekhina's release comes days after President Vladimir Putin pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon and once Russia's richest man, who spent a decade in prison after challenging Putin's power. Khodorkovsky flew to Germany after release and said he will stay out of politics. He pledged, however, to fight for the release of political prisoners in Russia.
Alekhina told Dozhd TV channel that she was too shocked when she was released from the prison colony to grasp what was going on.
She also said she would have stayed behind bars to serve her term, which was to end in March if she was free to turn it down.
I had a chance to turn it down, I would have done it, no doubt about that, she told Dozhd. This is not an amnesty. This is a hoax and a PR move.
She said the amnesty bill covers less than 10 percent of the prison population and only a fraction of women with children behind bars. Women convicted of grave crimes, even if they have children, are not eligible for amnesty.
Alkhina complained that prison officials did not give her a chance to say goodbye to cell mates, but put her in a car and drove her to the train station in downtown Nizhny Novgorod.
Once at the train station, Alekhina drove away to meet with local human rights activists, Khrunova told The Associated Press.
In a cell phone picture posted online, Alekhina was seen wearing a dark green prison jacket with a sticker on her chest with her name on it.
Tolokonnikova, who is serving time in a Siberian prison, is also expected to be released this week, her husband, Pyotr Verzilov, said.
Russia's Supreme Court earlier this month ordered a review of the Pussy Riot case, saying that a lower court did not fully prove their guilt and did not take their family circumstances into consideration when reaching the verdict.
Russian Artist Slams FSB 'Terrorism'
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky says he set fire to the entrance of the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters as a gesture in the face of FSB terrorism. Pavlensky has been arrested on vandalism charges, and spoke November 10 to RFE/RL's Russian Service from pretrial detention.
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Nouvelle agression Des Pussy Riots
Les Pussy Riots de nouveau agressées
Pussy Riot
In their new video, Chaika [The Seagull], aired on February 3, the Pussy Riot barter their masks and brightly colored dresses and high heels against the blue uniforms of Russian prosecutors. In a decadent stage, we see them stuff themselves with food, torture prisoners, to receive bribes.
I love Russia, I'm a true patriot
And it is not Europe gay that i chose for my dirty work
But little mother Russia
To enrich me, kill, steal,
I'm very devoted to my country (...)
I love Russia, I'm a true patriot,
But i would live in Switzerland
And if you want to fill your pockets, Always be loyal to Putin, my son
slams Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, emblematic figure of this artistic protest group.
The video was inspired by the scandal surrounding the investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny to the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Chaika, recounts the Newsru.com news site.
In a survey accompanied by a documentary aired in early December, the opponent Alexei Navalny accused the attorney general has used its functions to allow the enrichment of his two son, Artem and Igor, which are in turn linked to the most feared criminal gang Russian, nicknamed Kouchtchiovskaïa. Watched by over 4.5 million people, the documentary has been ignored by the official media and drew no reaction from the Kremlin. Yuri Chaika, meanwhile, has rejected the accusations, saying that the US Secret Service had commissioned the film.
The survey of Navalny to the prosecutor Chaika is one of the most strong and courageous political action last year, stressed Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, whose remarks were echoed by Newsru.com, adding that his music was his how to contribute to what Navalny survey can be seen by the largest number of people.
Dans leur nouveau clip, Tchaïka [La mouette], diffusé le 3 février, les Pussy Riot troquent leurs masques et leurs robes aux couleurs vives contre des talons aiguilles et les uniformes bleus des procureurs russes. Dans une mise en scène décadente, on les voit s’empiffrer de nourriture, torturer des prisonniers, toucher des pots-de-vin.
“J’aime la Russie, j’suis un vrai patriote
Et ce n’est pas l’Europe des gays que j’choisis pour mes basses œuvres
Mais ma petite mère la Russie
Pour m’enrichir, tuer, voler,
J’suis tout dévoué à ma patrie (…)
J’aime la Russie, j’suis un vrai patriote,
Mais j’vivrais bien en Suisse,
Et si tu veux t’en mettre plein les poches, Sois toujours loyal à Poutine, mon fils”, slame Nadejda Tolokonnikova, figure emblématique de ce groupe artistique contestataire.
“Le clip a été inspiré par le scandale autour de l’enquête menée par la Fondation de lutte anticorruption d’Alexeï Navalny visant les fils du procureur général de Russie, Iouri Tchaïka”, relate le site d’information Newsru.com.
Dans une enquête accompagnée d’un documentaire, diffusés début décembre, l’opposant Alexeï Navalny accusait le procureur général d’avoir usé de ses fonctions pour permettre l’enrichissement de ses deux fils, Artiom et Igor, qui seraient pour leur part liés à la bande criminelle la plus redoutée de Russie, surnommée Kouchtchiovskaïa. Visionné par plus de 4,5 millions de personnes, le documentaire a été passé sous silence par les médias officiels et n’a pas suscité de réaction du Kremlin. Iouri Tchaïka, de son côté, a rejeté ces accusations, affirmant que les services secrets américains avaient commandité ce film.
L’enquête de Navalny visant le procureur Tchaïka est “l’une des actions politiques les plus fortes et courageuses de l’année dernière”, avait souligné Nadejda Tolokonnikova, dont les propos sont repris par Newsru.com, ajoutant que son clip était sa façon de contribuer à ce que “l’enquête de Navalny puisse être vue par le plus grand nombre de personnes”.
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Pussy Riot Flogged by Cossacks in Sochi
Members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot were attacked by Cossacks in Sochi as they attempted to perform a protest song underneath a banner for the Winter Olympics. Via The Foreign Bureau, WSJ's global news update. Photo: AP
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Moscow museum gathers all Russia's Jordaens works
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Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is drawing together all works by Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens that are owned by Russian museums.
Jordaens was one of the most prominent painters of the Flemish school, alongside Rubens and van Dyck.
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Russian Jordaens is an exhibit of all the painters' works owned by Russian museums.
Earlier this year, 18 paintings were first shown to the public at The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Now, 18 paintings and 31 drawings have arrived in Moscow.
Our task was to show - using eloquent and characteristic exemplars - the artistic evolution of this wonderful Flemish painter. And to show all his masterpieces, including paintings and drawings, owned by Russian museums, explains curator Vadim Sadkov.
For the first time since 1794, Jordaens' The Lamentation has left St. Petersburg, where it hangs at Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
It was Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, who purchased Jordaens' monumental The Lamentation from a Berlin collection.
She later donated it to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.
It was always thought that the painting was by Flemish master Rubens, but several years ago, Dutch art historian Arnout Balis identified that was in fact by Jordaens.
The works of Flemish artists such as Jordaens were heavily influenced by Rubens.
Many painters trained at the master's studio, including young Anthony van Dyck, who went on to become one of Flemish Baroque's greatest.
It's not the only recent discovery at the exhibit.
During the restoration process of Christ and the Samaritan Woman, specialists were able to find the signature of Jordaens' son, also called Jacob.
In the process of restoration, a signature of the son of Jordaens was discovered, says Vadim Sadkov.
His name is also Jacob, but he is Junior. And it is written there - Jacob Jordaens Junior. And this painting is yet the only one valid work of the son. And this painting belongs to the museum in Nizhny Novgorod and is now shown here.
Meleager and Atalanta was always considered to be a copy of a Jordaens paintings, but - again during the restoration process - specialists discovered the painter's signature.
Jordaens was born in Antwerp, Belgium in in 1593.
He was a student of Adam van Noort, a Belgium painter, who also taught Rubens.
Jordaens is famous for painting religious stories, metaphors on life and people of his time, as well as collaborating with artists such as Andries Daniels and Paul De Vos.
These are the scenes from the Old Testament, allegoric portraits, portraits commissioned by burghers of Antwerpen, as well as his collaborations with other artists, including still life painters, says Sadkov.
These paintings show the history of Russian art collection.
Empress Catherine the Great began buying Flemish artists for her palaces.
Although, she was not the only one interested in the Dutch masters. Russian aristocrats followed her example and started to collect paintings of Flemish masters, including Jordaens.
Odysseus and Polyphemus, a painting from a collection of Rubens, was brought to Russia in the 18th century and was in hands of a nobel family of Musin-Pushkin, then belonged to a Hermitage curator Osip Braz.
After Braz was sent to a Soviet prison camp, the state confiscated his collection.
Today, it's in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts' collection.
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2 Pussy Riot Members Released From Russian Prison
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has become the second member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot to freed early from prison under a new amnesty law.
Band member Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier on Monday in Nizhny Novgorod.
Alyokhina told a Russian TV channel the amnesty was a PR stunt and she would rather have remained in prison.
The women were jailed in August 2012 for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral.
The act was seen as blasphemous by many Russians, but their conviction was criticised by rights groups, anti-Putin activists and foreign governments.
Their sentences were due to end in March 2014, but they have known since last week that their release was imminent under a law signed by the Russian parliament which gave amnesty to some 20,000 prisoners, including mothers. Both have young children.
The amnesty was widely seen as attempt to avoid controversy overshadowing the Winter Olympics, being hosted in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi in February.
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky - once Russia's richest man - was also pardoned on Friday and freed after more than 10 years in prison for fraud and tax evasion.
Views unchanged
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova walked out of a prison hospital in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, on Monday afternoon. She was being treated there for unspecified illness.
Alyokhina was freed early in the morning in Nizhny Novgorod.
Speaking later to Russian television after her release, she said her views of President Putin had not changed and that the amnesty was a profanation and a PR exercise.
If I had a choice to refuse [the amnesty], I would have, without a doubt, she added.
Russian media quoted a friend of Alyokhina as saying she had wanted to serve out her sentence as she was concerned for the safety of fellow prisoners and wanted to protect them.
Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova were both convicted after performing an obscenity-laced song called Punk Prayer in Moscow's Christ the Saviour cathedral in February 2012.
The song was heavily critical of the Orthodox Church's support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling on the Virgin Mary to throw Putin out.
A third Pussy Riot protester, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was also jailed, but was released on appeal in October 2012.
Tolokonnikova's husband Pyotr Verzilov earlier told the BBC that news of the women's release was a bit of an image-lightening process for President Putin.
The only thing they have acquired over their two years in prison is their confidence to continue fighting Putin's regime even harder, because, well, this is the only thing that can change things in our country, he said.
Charges against 30 people arrested while taking part in a Greenpeace protest at a Russian Arctic offshore oil rig may also be dropped later this week under the amnesty law.
The group - mostly foreign activists - have been charged with hooliganism.
Mr Khodorkovsky's surprise release was approved by Mr Putin last week. He was pardoned on humanitarian grounds, because his mother is seriously ill.
The former tycoon has always insisted his conviction was politically motivated, because of his financial support for opposition parties.
Speaking from Berlin, where he flew after being freed, he said he would stay out of politics, but would do all he could to free Russia's other political prisoners.
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Pussy Riot attacked by Cossack militia at Sochi Olympics - no comment
Controversial protest group Pussy Riot claim they were beaten with whips by Cossack militia patrolling the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina -- who rose to prominence after being jailed by Russian president Vladimir Putin over a church protest -- said they were attacked as band members tried to perform a song.
Under the banner Sochi 2014, to the sound of Putin will teach us to love the homeland, Cossacks attacked Pussy Riot, beat us with whips and sprayed a lot of pepper gas at us, Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter.
A still photograph showed a Cossack about to strike the women, dressed in their customary brightly coloured ski masks, short dresses and tights. Some of them were unmasked by the Cossacks.
Alyokhina tweeted photographs of blood dripping down the face of a supporter after the attack. Another showed red marks across Tolokonnikova's chest.
David Khakim, an activist who was briefly detained over a one-man protest in Sochi this week, said he had witnessed the attack.
The Cossacks sprayed gas in my eyes. They started beating us with whips after which they started choking us in front of a police officer, he wrote on Twitter.
Cossack patrolmen, who have enjoyed a revival under Putin, are being used to enforce security around the Olympic Games.
Neither part of the police nor military, Cossacks, once the patrolmen of the Russian borderlands, are meant to maintain order and work with police to make arrests.
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