Members of which pop group were jailed in Russia after performing an anti Putin song in Moscow Cathedral?
Feminism in Russia less pay than men doing the same work. In 2003, 43 percent of local administrators in St. Petersburg were women. In 2012, the feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot performed publicity stunts to show their opposition to Vladimir Putin, and have faced criticism from the Russian Orthodox Church and the Putin administration. Three members of the group were arrested in March 2012 after performing a "punk-prayer" against Putin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. During their trial for hooliganism, they talked about being feminists and stated that this was not incompatible with Russian Orthodoxy. However, Larisa Pavlova,
Russia under Vladimir Putin Russian leader to have had a pop song written about him: "I want a man like Putin", which hit the charts in 2002. According to some scholars, Russia under Putin has been transformed into an "FSB state". Shortly after becoming Russian Prime Minister, Putin was reported to have joked to a group of his KGB associates: "A group of FSB colleagues dispatched to work undercover in the government has successfully completed its first mission". The former Securitate Lieutenant General and defector Ion Mihai Pacepa said in his interview for conservative "FrontPage Magazine" in 2006 that "former KGB officers are running"