title: 7 Spies R Us
abstract: Despite Putin's consolidation of power and rising tensions with the United States, in 2008 the spirit of glasnost seemed very much alive in some Rus sian cultural institutions.By 2013, the tide had turned.The Parliament passed legislation criminalizing acts said to offend religious believers after four members of the all-female rock group Pussy Riot were charged in 2012 with hooliganism and inciting hatred against Orthodox Christians.Their transgression had been a punk prayer shouted in the Rus 