The Foreign Ministry indicated: in Europe they can also be imprisoned for hooliganism in the temple
In Western countries, in particular, in Germany and Austria, an insult to the moral feelings of believers can be punishable by imprisonment, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said. On the eve of the three members of the Pussy Riot group , they sentenced to two years in prison for the "punk-spring" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The Western public condemned such a sentence as disproportionate .