Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming-from Radio Free Europe: "Is the Russian Orthodox Church afraid of zombies?"

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"Is the Russian Orthodox Church afraid of zombies?

On August 19, around 300 young people gathered at the Irtyshskaia Embankment in the Russian city of Omsk.

Initially, 25-year-old Mikhail Yakovlev had wanted to organize a so-called Zombie Walk in Omsk and had received a permit to do so. But his permit was abruptly withdrawn, so Yakovlev called off the event, according to Global Voices.
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Yakovlev has likened the ban on the Zombie Walk to the persecution of the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot in Moscow.

“As an Orthodox believer, I see no evil in Zombie Walk," he told Interfax. "Nothing that would offend believers.”

The timing of the Zombie Walk, along with the August 17 guilty verdict in the Pussy Riot case, has sparked debate concerning what appears to the increasing involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in not only state issues but also criminal and cultural affairs.

According to Global Voices, a rumor has been spreading online that the Orthodox diocese was against the Zombie Walk because “raising the dead” is un-Christian and could disturb bystanders.

Additionally, there were also claims that Omsk’s Muslim authorities had argued that a Zombie Walk went against the spirit of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. On August 19, millions of Muslims around the world began celebrating the festival of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan.

In addition to the religious authorities, Global Voices reports the involvement of yet another group, called Parental Control, in the Zombie Walk controversy. This is the same organization that petitioned the city of St. Petersburg to sue Madonna for violating the city’s ban on “homosexual propaganda.” The group had argued that the Zombie Walk would have increased crime by gathering so many young people in one place."