The case of Pussy Riot as a reflection of the process of archaization of Russian public consciousness

The aim of the submitted article - to reveal the reasons and manifestations of process of arkhaization in the Russian public consciousness which was reflected in an example of reaction to an incident of Pussy Riot. One of problematic questions on which authors give the answer in this research sounds as follows. What occurred on February 21, 2012 in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour what instantly made the Pussy Riot band world famous (though initially it was known only in narrow cultural and oppositional societies)? For the solution of the problem the authors marked the following tasks. It is necessary to define features of elements of desacralization in the stock "The Virgin Mary, Banish Putin!". For this it is important to allocate performativity models which dramatically "faced" within an incident of Pussy Riot by means of a punk prayer of feminist girls. Also it is necessary to pay attention to features of formation of sacral space directly in the main temple of the country where an incident occurred on February 21. The reflection on concrete examples of process of an arkhaization of the Russian public discourse, taken the brightest and radical forms with the third presidential term of V.V. Putin will become one of the main tasks of this article. The punk prayer of Pussy Riot and reaction of the government, church and society became the source base for the study. During the conducted research authors came to a conclusion about dramatic collision in sacral space as which in the opinion of many believers and the Russian power the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, three models of a performativity - traditionally Orthodox, domineering and opposition-modern. Obviously, the message of a punk prayer interfered not only in a performance of church, but also in a performance of the power. Authors note that the incident of Pussy Riot became of as the important trigger which designated the process of an arkhaization of a public discourse which began with the third presidential term of Putin. The authors provide specific examples of trends archaism, which is reflected in the Russian society. That is: a constant appeal to the authorities to "spiritual scrapie" and the quest for the all-new "sacred places". The laws on "insult the feelings" (which give the work of the courts). "The myrrh-streaming" diverse inanimate objects which becomes a subject of public discussion. The substitution in modern discourse the power of talk about reform, explaining that the concept of the "great glorious past". In this case we are talking about serious disruption of public consciousness that reacts this way to stress the post-Soviet transit. The authors note that the phenomenon is not specifically post-Soviet, because it is universal in terms of the historical crises. And interestingly, in this sense punk-prayer Pussy Riot was able to get in an important and painful point and to show clearly the trend of public consciousness.

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