If the new bill is approved it would amend the Criminal Code with a new article on “Insulting citizens’ religious views and feelings and desecration of the objects of the religious reverence and pilgrimage as well as those destined for conducting religious rites and ceremonies”.
Under this article a public insult or humiliation of church services or other religious rites is punished with fines of up to 300,000 roubles (about US$9,000), up to 200 hours of community work or up to three years in prison. Defiling or destruction of buildings or objects that are revered as holy by any official religion can be punished with a fine of up to 500,000 roubles (US$ 15,000), up to 400 hours community work or with prison sentence of up to five years.
Duma receives bill introducing jail sentence for public blasphemy — RT
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