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==History and controversies==

==History and controversies==

In February 2012, they made one of their "performances" inside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a very large church in Moscow.<ref name="theperformance">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS92big4TY</ref>  No worship service was going on at the time.  The performance was a "punk prayer", asking the Virgin Mary to remove Putin from office.  Examination of their "performance"<ref name="theperformance"/> shows that they were motivated by disdain for Vladimir Putin and for the church's cozy relationship with him.  The group presumably knew that doing this in a church would be deemed particularly offensive.

In February 2012, they made one of their "performances" inside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a very large church in Moscow.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALS92big4TY</ref>  No worship service was going on at the time.  The performance was a "punk prayer", asking the Virgin Mary to remove Putin from office.  Motivated by [[bigotry]] toward religion, the group presumably knew that doing this in a church would be deemed particularly offensive.

Three of their members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich were arrested, held without bail, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment.  The charge was "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".  (The term "hooliganism" (хулиганство), while not at all common in the United States, is commonly used in Russia.  It roughly means what Americans would describe as "disorderly conduct".)

Three of their members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich were arrested, held without bail, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment.  The charge was "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".  (The term "hooliganism" (хулиганство), while not at all common in the United States, is commonly used in Russia.  It roughly means what Americans would describe as "disorderly conduct".)