Russian Orthodox activists complain to the attorney general about a music group singing bad words

Russian Orthodox activists from the “Narodny Sobor” (“People's Cathedral”) movement have asked the country's top police captain, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, to open an investigation into the law enforcement officers who provided security at a June 3 concert for the music group Leningrad.

Yuri Zadoya, the chairman of the Novosibirsk branch of the Narodny Sobor movement, says police were “inactive” and didn't take adequate measures to prevent the musicians using obscenities in public. Zadoya says his group contacted Attorney General Yuri Chaika before the concert, warning the police to anticipate such public disturbances.

“Over the course of the two-hour concert, the band’s members could be heard cursing from the stage. The concert was attended by about 10,000 spectators. The pre-show announcement by [Novosibirsk] Mayor Anatoly Lokot […] regarding the inadmissibility of the use of obscene language in public places and the promotion of bad habits was ignored,” Narodny Sobor complained to Kolokoltsev.