Police have detained activists of the "Georgiyevtsy!" Orthodox youth organization for distributing pamphlets near the Marshal Zhukov monument in downtown Moscow that call for boycotting Madonna's September 11 concert in the Russian capital.
Ten people or so, all of them aged 15-16 years, were detained, an Interfax correspondent reports.
The young people, dressed in yellow T-shirts with "Madonna, Go Home!" written on them, told journalists and passers-by that "the concert insults the religious feelings of Orthodox believers."
The September 11 concert "is blasphemous because it is due to take place on the day when the whole world pays homage to the victims of the terrorist attack in New York," they said.
The concert comes "as an ideal excuse for certain forces to destabilize the situation in the city on that day," the organization's co-chairman Stepan Medvedko said.
The organization's activists are working in several Moscow districts and hope to distribute up to 10,000 pamphlets, Medvedko said.
source : Interfax / Reuters
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