Icon T-shirts cause fuss in Moscow
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Ksenia Sobchak, a Russian socialite and reality television star turned opposition activist, has caused controversy by selling T-shirts with herself as the Virgin Mary.
The icon motif has been in vogue with opposition activists ever since three members of the punk band Pussy Riot were given two-year prison sentences for a raucous protest in a Moscow cathedral that targeted President Vladimir Putin and his close relationship with the Orthodox Church.
Like Pussy Riot, the T-shirts have offended many believers.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sobchak said she did not approve of the band members' stunt, but "the punishment they received clearly doesn't fit their crime."
She was selling the shirts at a Moscow department store on Saturday as tens of thousands of anti-Putin protesters marched through nearby streets.