Grrls

My previous post about Russia included a reference to "young women" protesting the cozy relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Putin regime. That was almost certainly about Pussy Riot, recently sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." Which (confirmation bias acknowledged) is a reinforcement of the Awakening beginning there.

One article called the band "punk," although they claim to be inspired by the Riot Grrl bands of the '90s. And I just took a day to check that, because duh, "Riot" is their last name: of course that's an influence. (Although it might be different in Russian.) Still, punk was a solid Awakening movement: youth-oriented, anti-establishment - not too spiritual, unless you want to count nihilism that way. One big question, though, if this is right: what does a Russian Awakening imply, for Russia and for everyone else?

It's not too easy to tell, since (by my previously suggested timeline) the Awakening was during WWII - difficult to sort the 2T events from that. The previous one would have been around the time the serfs were freed, and the Crimean War. The latter would make sense: it started, as I recall, with a fight in the Holy Land involving the Orthodox church and other guardians of holy places there. And ends with them defending themselves against outside attackers, particularly in a number of sieges...