I like how Russia takes religion seriously, but this is too much... I'm sure there are tons and tons of people in Russia who do really bad things and go anywhere but in jail :/

not to say that if I was living in Russia, I'd probably end up in jail for the same reason :@

I never realised the Russians took Christianity so seriously. I always thought they were very lax with religion because of communist times which I also thought religion wasn't a big player.

But I'm completely uniformed on the subject, and obviously wrong.

I wonder if the GPS will properly track inside the prison?

I wonder will he have to get people to smuggle in candies for his pokemon up their ass in Prison?

I wonder how long will it be til the other prisoners find out why he is there and show them their Weedle collection?

How long will it be before his Chocolate Staryu evolves to a Starmie in there?

.....

I think I'm out!

OT - This might be a clickbait article based on a tiny bit of a story but all the same if there is any truth to be had here it is fairly scary, of course when we read the story we think of a guy sitting silently in the back looking down on his phone, it could have been someone obnoxious going there for a "prank" and playing with the music up full pretending to use the AR feature to catch a Pikachu near the Pulpit during a mass. I've seen some idiots playing Pokemon and shouting idiot things at the game, I could easily see one of them thinking this would be funny.

Where did I say that you cant criticise the law? I said you cant break it. You can try to change the law, but not by breaking it. You break the law you get punished period. Once you start allowing people to subjectively judge what laws they should or shouldnt follow you've removed the point of having laws in the first place. A psychopath might think that homocide laws are stupid too.

Having seen a few derps playing it and trying to be funny by going up to elderly people in a park and shouting about squirtles no... I disagree with you and think that a few months in jail might do those people good tbh.

In Russia they have prospecuted a number of people under this law on really dubious grounds. He should know better. He wasnt just playing Pokemon he posted images online which is what did him in. His intent was clearly to inflame and insult. Now he's facing the consequences for being stupid and not following his nations laws.

Religion was more or less banned during the communist times in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, then  a lot of people became very religious once communism disappeared completely from Eastern and Central Europe. The only exception is the Czech Republic, where there are actually a lot of atheists. Even in countries like Romania, Bulgaria and Poland the number of atheists is constantly growing.

Practices, you mean. Seeing this as an attack is very far-fetched, and by looking at the law alone, he could hardly be judged. It's the practices arising from the (questionable) interpretations of the law that got him.

Guys, that guy was taken not for Pokemon in church. He played it there, and made video, go out, no problem.

When he was arrested he was under drugs and with pre-18 girl under drugs. The reason for the arrest was systematical provocations against orthodox religion on his blog and youtube channel (like singing prayers to Christ with swear words and so on).  And yes, we have a law against provocations on peoples race, religion etc.

I don't think he'll get a real jail tim, tbh.

We have a law against provoking/insulting people because of their colour/religion/social group etc. And we have jailtime as one of the penalties on this. If you break the law you get penalized. Isn't it simple enough?