“Dances – and that’s it”: in the Nizhny Novgorod diocese they don’t see anything terrible in the dance of a girl on a pylon, behind which a chapel can be seen in the distance

In the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, they did not discern anything particularly terrible in the dance on the pylon, behind which the chapel can be seen in the distance. As the press secretary and head of the press service of the Ruling Bishop of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese Alexy Pestretsov explained, “a girl is dancing in the video,” writes the local NewsNN portal.

“Dances and all. There is nothing more to talk about,” he said. The priest added that indeed – behind the dancer and the pylon “a chapel is visible.” “But there are always chapels, churches and temples in the central city squares, it just so happened … It is difficult to draw any conclusion from this,” he concluded.

Recall, earlier it was reported that in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the police began checking after a pole dance against the backdrop of the temple. Dancer Alena Katsan posted a video on the Web, where she, in an outfit that is not very suitable for the Russian winter – a swimsuit and high-heeled sneakers-boots – dances on a pylon in a park, and a chapel can be seen in the background. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nizhny Novgorod Region stated that they were studying this video, because “a religious building is located in the visibility zone.”

And in St. Petersburg, the Investigative Committee previously opened a criminal case under the article “Public actions expressing clear disrespect for society and committed in order to offend the religious feelings of believers” against a girl who bared her buttocks against the backdrop of St. Isaac’s Cathedral and posted a photo on the network.