Oh yeah. This ``pussy riot'' thing was set up from the beginning. The girls should have known better, but it was impossible because they are radical feminists, and all radical feminists are neurotics, and neurotics cannot think clearly or plan one step ahead. The guy who directed their actions (marat gelman) is a well-known kremlin dog on a leash who clumsily tries to look counter-cultural, and usually fails even that.
So a bunch of loudmouth feminist bitches were sacrificed to prime the neurotized society into accepting criminalization of blasphemy. This movement is popularly welcomed and even celebrated because people happily ate this shift from ``you can't pray against putin'' to ``we should not let jew feminist women desecrate our churches''. A simple twomover really, you don't need to be very smart to see it through, and kremlins are themselves very dumb, so they have to make up for their lack of planning ability by sheer impudence.