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Madonna’s Confessions tour reaches Russia on September 12th, and - predictably enough - the Orthodox Church has described the concert as “blasphemy” and is urging believers to stay away.

Members of a radical Russian Orthodox group however, have gone further, 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,” Leonid Simanovich-Nikshich, head of a group calling itself the Union of Orthodox Religious Banner Bearers, told about 100 supporters at a central Moscow square.

Simanovich-Nikshich and a couple of supporters then speared a portrait poster of Madonna with a wooden pike, ripped it up, tossed the pieces on the ground and stamped on them.

I wonder if all that jumping up and down has made them feel any better.

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