Posted on 08/09/2012 7:15:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
St. Petersburg - Activists from the Trade Union of Russian Citizens are planning to continue a series of lone protests against Madonna's concert in St. Petersburg, the public movement told Interfax.
"At first we were planning to hold protests outside the Sports and Concert Complex (where her performance will take place), but we dropped this idea because representatives from the LGBT movement will be protesting there. We have decided to go to Dvortsovaya Square tonight," the source said.
It was here that Madonna gave her first performance in St. Petersburg a few years ago, he said. "The time has come to consecrate this place. We have invited a priest to spray holy water onto Dvortsovaya Square," the source said.
The Trade Union of Russian Citizens believes that Madonna has turned its ideas into political demonstrations, having become "an ideological weapon of the West," the source said. "We are against the genocide of morality and ethics. Foreigners have no right to dictate the rules of life to us," the spokesman said.
Madonna is performing in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The show is due to begin on the stage of the Petersburgsky Sports and Concert Complex at 2000 Moscow time. Madonna will sing songs from her new album M.D.N.A. as part of her world tour.
During her performance in Moscow on August 7, Madonna spoke in support of the arrested members of the Pussy Riot punk band. Also, the singer wrote on her Facebook page that during her performance in St. Petersburg she will touch upon the problem of gay rights violations in the city, which banned "propaganda" promoting homosexuality and pedophilia to minors.
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It’s one thing to threaten to nuke the Russkies, but to send over Madonna doing her new material is just too cruel.
Holy Water = disinfectant
These days it's the Russian in a position to nuke us economically. Anyone realize their corporate tax rate is 20% where ours is 40%? World stats...
They must look at us and think "Stinking commies"...
The Madonna thing is just one more thing that screams "common sense". Thing is, they should probably be washing the stage and using the Holy Water after the performance.
Don’t they mean “hosed down”?
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