Russian Practice: Persecution for Criticism or Punishment for Blasphemy

Authors :: Damir Gainutdinov
Source :: The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today ISBN: 9783658024406
Publication Year :: 2014
Publisher :: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014.
Abstract: Art critics Yuri Samodurov, Andrei Yerofeyev, and Lyudmila Vasilovskaya; artists Alexander Savko and Artem Loskutov; members of Pussy Riot; human rights defender Maxim Yefimov; and many other activists might have been sentenced to between three and five years in prison if a proposed Russian law on blasphemy had been adopted earlier.