Pussy Riot and a concerning reaction by Patriarch Kirill

The article I'm referencing here may not be fully viewable for acouple of weeks due to the CT internet policy. As a subscriber I feel it's fair, for the purposes of discussion to make a little piece of Canon Bourdeaux's article a bit more open. I'm assuming that readers know the basics of this but if you don't try this. What struck me was the appearance in the same issue of the Church times of this article by Michael Bourdeaux in which the following quote appears and a column featuring the prayer that I will reproduce following it.

: Patriarch Kirill has reacted by sending a circular letter to all his churches in Moscow, to be read out after the liturgy. It was an "Appeal to the Procurator General", encouraging parishioners to sign in support, requesting the maximum sentence for the women: five years, for blasphemy and aggravated hooliganism, (Is this a return to the Cold War?)

And then there is this prayer from a traditional Eastern Orthodox source which seems to be an indictment of patriarch Kirill's response:

Lord Jesus Christ who didst command us to love our enemies, and those who defame and injure us, and to pray for them and forgive them, Who Thyself didst pray  for Thine enemies, who crucified Thee; grant us, we pray, the spirit of Christian reconciliation and meekness, that we may heartily forgive every injury and be roconciled with our enemies. Grant us to overcome the malevolence and offences of people with Christian meekness and true love of our neighbour ... And help us repay evil with goodness, and to remain safe from the temptations of the devil, and from all the perils which threaten us, in the form of visible and invisible enemies. Amen.

Perhaps we should pray that Kirill might find it in him to try to embody this prayer that speaks so well of his Tradition?