Photo: Michal Růžička, ČTK
The radio play Matko boží, vyžeň Putina (Mother of God, Banish Putin) has won Czech Radio first place at the UK International Radio Drama Festival 2026, held in Canterbury. The play revisits an artistic intervention by a group of young women who drew attention to the dangerous ties between the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin.
On 21 February 2012, the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, tried to sing an anti-Putin song in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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Author: Romana Grajcarová