Orthodox activists from the God's Will (Bozhya Volya) public
movement staged "Orthodox Inquisition against the YABLOKO
party". A group of young men burst into YABLOKO’s Moscow
headquarters on Friday night, took all the freely available
books and booklets published by the party and burned them
in the square by Novokuznetskaya metro station which is in
3 minutes walk from YABLOKO’s office. The video entitled "Confiscation
and Burning of Waste Paper of the Party of Satanists and Perverts
YABLOKO" was loaded by the young people on the Internet.
On Friday night on March 15, when there was only a security
guard on duty in YABLOKO’s headquarters, a group of young
people entered the party's office, situated in the centre
of Moscow in Pyatnitskaya Street. Grabbing all the party books
and booklets (the party programme, the party manifesto, books
by Grigory Yavlinsky and Sergei Mitrokhin and booklets on
the defence on human rights) published by YABLOKO and put
on a small table by the entrance for people to take away,
the young men burned them in an urn by the Adam and Eve monument
15 meters from Novokuznetskaya metro station.
The video entitled "Confiscation and Burning of Waste
Paper by the Party Satanists and Perverts YABLOKO" was
loaded by the young people at the web-site “For
Russia, Putin and People’s Front”. (At present they have
removed the video, but it may be found here http://www.amic.ru/news/212102).
The video demonstrates that one of the participants of this
action, Dmitry Tsorionov, calls himself an activist of the
God's Will
movement and says that the activists "are sending a request
to the Prosecutor of the Russian Federation to recognize the
so-called YABLOKO party as extremist, because they are defiling
our people, struggling against the Russian Orthodox Church
and with the churches construction programme "200"
[envisaging construction of 200 orthodox temples in Moscow]
and is sponsored from abroad in order to defile and undermine
the foundations of our society".
It should be noted that Dmitry Tsorionov voicing the complaints
against the YABLOKO party took part in a round
table held in YABLOKO last October. During the discussion
party activists, representatives of citizens' initiative groups,
experts and Orthodox activists discussed the plans to build
"temples within a walking distance" in Moscow.
Most likely, the party's position announced during the discussion
[that new temples should not be built on the sited where city
gardens and children’s playgrounds were situated] was the
reason for such an act of vandalism. The video of the Tsorionov’s
speech at the round table entitled "Enteo
Against YABLOKO Party Infidels" posted at the God's
Will web-site speaks in favour of this version. “Enteo” here
is Tsarionov’s nickname.
"We are expecting a reaction now from Vladimir Putin,
the People’s Front and the Russian Orthodox Church to the
provocations of the thugs acting on their behalf. In the absence
of any response we will consider what has happened a beginning
a hongweibing terror against the political opposition and
will build our party strategy in line with these new realities,"
commented YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin.
"As for the Russian Orthodox Church, we believe that
it gets most of the damage from the activities of these bastards.
The longer the Russian Orthodox Church keeps silent about
the Orthodox Fascism, the more it affects its image,"
says Mitrokhin.
YABLOKO leader is sending an appeal to the Public Prosecutor
General's Office demanding an investigation.
See also:
Human
Rights
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