Moscow: The new Miss Russia took the unusual step Saturday of contradicting President Vladimir Putin by denouncing the jailing of two members of the Pussy Riot female punk band who performed a protest song in a church.
Eighteen-year-old Elmira Abdrazakova — an ethnic Tatar whose choice was protested by nationalists on some prominent websites — said she did not think the young performers should have been thrown in jail for two years.
“I finished Sunday school and for me, a church is sacred.
And to do something like that is unacceptable,” she told the Russian News Service radio station.
