{"id":7582,"date":"2012-08-04T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7582"},"modified":"2012-08-04T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T13:41:45","slug":"putin-eases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/putin-eases\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Eases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kirill-putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kirill-putin-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kirill\/Putin\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kirill-putin-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kirill-putin.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/313132\/putin-eases-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/vladimir-putin\/9448370\/Vladimir-Putin-says-Pussy-Riot-should-not-be-treated-too-harshly.html\">via <\/a>the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>) is some encouraging news on the story of those three naughtily-named girls who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/312876\/mime-cathedral-andrew-stuttaford\">staged a protest<\/a> in Moscow&#8217;s Christ the Savior Cathedral against Putin and, by implication, the role played by the Russian Orthodox Church in supporting his regime:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Russian president said there was &#8220;nothing good&#8221; about the band&#8217;s protest, but added: &#8220;I hope the court will come out with the right decision, a well-founded one,&#8221; he said during a visit to the Olympics. Nonetheless, I don&#8217;t think that they should be judged so harshly for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the three women expressed hope that Mr Putin&#8217;s statement could mean they would avoid the maximum seven-year sentence for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If sincere (a question, obviously) Putin\u2019s statement represents a welcome step forward, given the way that the Russian judicial authorities tend to, uh, pay attention to what the president has to say.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: Here (via the Daily Telegraph) is some encouraging news on the story of those three naughtily-named girls who staged a protest in Moscow&#8217;s Christ the Savior Cathedral against Putin and, by implication, the role played by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/putin-eases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746],"tags":[946,559,560,781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}