Russians Call Pussy Riot Note at Murder Site a Diversion
By ANNA KORDUNSKY and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: August 31, 2012
"MOSCOW — Russian officials said Friday that they had arrested a 38-year-old man who confessed to a grisly double murder in Kazan, in which two women were found stabbed and with “Free! Pussy Riot” written in blood on a wall nearby.
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Your Day, a Moscow-based tabloid newspaper, ran a front-page headline on Friday saying, “Dancing on Blood: Supporters of Pussy Riot Bludgeoned Two Women and Wrote a Demand to Free the Singers with Blood.”
The Ural Information Bureau, a Yekaterinburg-based news agency, headlined its story “Pussy Riot Supporters Resorted to Murders.” The article began, “They have hacked up a pensioner and her daughter with a knife.”
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Young Guard, a publication of the youth wing of the governing United Russia party, published an article with a similar headline: “Two Women Were Sacrificed in the Name of Pussy Riot.”
Even a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Dmitri Smirnov, said the punk band and its supporters bore some responsibility. “This blood is now on the conscience of the community supporting Pussy Riot,” he told the news agency Interfax on Thursday.
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Mr. Polozov suggested that if the killer had written “United Russia” on the wall, no one would be blaming politicians. “His tracks would have led to the party?” he asked."
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