TODAY: Kirill says feminism is dangerous; Femen slams Putin protest response; Duma passes reading of blasphemy bill; Golos latest group to come under ‘foreign agent’ fire; criticism upped over North Korea; Poles protest on anniversary of Kaczynski crash; Nabiullina bank leadership confirmed; Sistema plans India investment.

The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said that feminism is a ‘very dangerous’ phenomenon which ‘proclaim[s] a pseudo-freedom of women’, and that women should focus on their families whilst ‘Man turns his sight outward’.  Femen activist Alexandra Shevchenko, who ran topless at Vladimir Putin in Hanover yesterday, was unimpressed with the President’s response to the protest (he said he had enjoyed its ‘delights‘), commenting: ‘Putin is a bastard […] his answer was really stupid.’  The Duma has passed the first reading of a ‘contentious’ bill that would significantly toughen penalties for those who commit blasphemy, allowing punishments ranging from $9,600 fines to three years in jail.  Election watchdog Golos is the latest rights group to come under fire, after the Justice Ministry said it had committed an administrative offence by failing to label itself as a ‘foreign agent’, and now faces up to $16,000 in fines, with a possible personal fine of $10,000 for its head.  The case against Golos will be presented in court later today.  The group’s deputy director has rejected the allegations and says it will respond with documents in court showing that it has not received any grants ‘from the moment the law on agents went into effect’.  The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said that such inspections on NGOs in Russia will have a ‘chilling effect’ on their work.