As a piece of political theater, the protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior has turned out to be an outstanding success, but that’s only thanks to the overreaction by the authorities. It’s safe to say that most Russians did not approve of the form that the demonstration took, and the three women themselves now say that it was an “ethical mistake” to have done what they did in the cathedral. Under the circumstances, all the government had to do was impose a light punishment. That would both have signaled its own restraint and its distance from actions that genuinely >>>

The Ukrainian feminist movement FEMEN says the police blocked the organization's office in Kyiv following the sawing down of the cross in central Kyiv. "The police launched a full-fledged hunt for FEMEN activists after the Interior Ministry's Main Department in Kyiv opened a criminal case on the basis of the sawing down of the cross in Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The Kyiv office of FEMEN […] was blocked by the Interior Ministry special troops all night," FEMEN said in a press release issued on Saturday. FEMEN activists reiterate that they are "calm about the authorities' >>>