Madonna gets stomped in Russia

September 5th, 2006 by Monitor

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Madonna’s “Confessions” tour has predictably run into more trouble. It happens with such regularity that it is barely worth reporting, but in this case the protest group has a funny name and its leaders sport amusing hats and beards, so here you go.

Leonid Simanovich-Nikshich, leader of a group calling itself the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, is demanding that the show be banned:

We will never allow her to desecrate our greatest icons. We demand to drive Madonna out of Russian territory.

Let’s wait and see, shall we?

At the rally in Moscow, attended by around 100 supporters, Simanovich-Nikshich and a couple of henchmen speared a poster of Madonna with a wooden pike, ripped it up, tossed the pieces on the ground and stamped on them.

Sorry, we don’t have it on video.


6 Responses to “Madonna gets stomped in Russia”

  1. martyn says:
    05/Sep/2006 at 12:26 pm

    You lie! thats zz top!

  2. Bartholomew says:
    05/Sep/2006 at 1:17 pm

    There’s an article on these guys here:

    The Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers…was co-founded in 1993 by Leonid Simonovich…The contemporary Union of Banner-Bearers follows the Black Hundreds precedent of denying membership even to converted Jews…For Simonovich and the members of his Union, we are living in the Last Days, and politics is an irrelevance…America is castigated as a secular Satan, whose crime in bombing the Serbs is not her interference in the affairs of another state, but her decision to take up arms against an Orthodox country…Simonovich resurrected a more important fundamental – the Patristic declaration that a synagogue is a refuge of demons. Simonovich’s organisation also seeks to resurrect the medieval myth of Jewish ritual murder as evidence of the Jewish threat, publicly calling for the canonisation of Andriushy Iushchinsky, whom Jews were accused of murdering in 1911, and declaring that the murder of Tsar Paul I bore the hallmarks of a ‘Masonic’ ritual killing…Further threats to the integrity of Russian Orthodoxy are offered by Roman Catholics, NATO and the West…

    etc etc

  3. Monitor says:
    05/Sep/2006 at 1:48 pm

    So, anti-semitic, paramilitary fundamentalists then. Thanks, Richard!

  4. Steve says:
    05/Sep/2006 at 5:07 pm

    I am still wiating for a Christian to show my the copyright proof they have on crucifixtion crosses.

    Did they buy it off the Romans at some point or, like they do with every other symbol they have, nick it and say it’s theirs like a petulant selfish little child.

    I really do wish they had hanged Jesus as we would have millions of people wandering around with Gallows hanging from their necks.

  5. Graham Deans Williamson says:
    05/Sep/2006 at 5:18 pm

    How can Leonid Simanovich-Nikshich call himself a moral leader when his surnames sound so much like swearwords?

  6. Will says:
    06/Sep/2006 at 8:53 am

    Do Banner Bearers bear people who ban things?