Ilya Varlamov: “When will the priests be judged?”

“Our society today is very gentle. We do not tolerate any insults. We are sensitive to the feelings of believers, the memory of the war and our history. Those who encroach on the sacred are severely punished - people every now and then receive criminal charges for seemingly harmless, albeit sometimes stupid, actions,” the blogger writes in LiveJournal .

“Video blogger Sokolovsky decided to catch Pokemon in the temple and will probably go to jail for this... He already has 17 episodes on his case file, from insulting feminists to comparing priests with zombies (mainly Articles 282 and 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Because Bozena Rynska and Arkady Babchenko refused to mourn the victims of the crashed Ministry of Defense plane flying to Syria, the whole country hounded them for a week, and deputies even wanted to expel them from the country and deprive them of citizenship. Later, Babchenko nevertheless left, fearing criminal prosecution. And recently, the court ordered Tema Lebedev to pay a 500,000 ruble fine to a veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad for insulting her feelings. I do not condone any of these actions, but in each case the public reaction seems to me to be unnecessarily aggressive.

At the same time, every day various obscurantists or simply fools talk all sorts of nonsense from TV screens and newspaper pages. Nonsense that kills. It literally kills, it kills thousands of our compatriots. And no one cares..."