A RUSSIAN streamer who posed bare for a photograph in entrance of a church faces jail for “insulting the non secular emotions of believers”.
Polina Murugina, 24, is the most recent in a string of influencers dealing with time behind bars for violating a brand new indecency legislation.
The streamer faces a high-quality of as much as £3,000 or a 12 months in jail if she’s discovered responsible of “insulting the non secular emotions of believers”.
Polina, who’s tattooed from tip to toe, posed bare outdoors the Church of Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Moscow, native media experiences say.
The image, which was taken final summer season, was solely not too long ago reported to police.
The influencer has but to remark however has closed down her Instagram account the place the controversial image was posted.
It comes because the Kremlin cracks down on folks sharing racy posts beside church buildings or state buildings.
Final 12 months, an influencer couple had been handed jail sentences after they staged an X-rated photoshoot near St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.
Ruslan Bobiev, from Tajikistan, and his girlfriend Anastasia Chistova brought on outrage after a photograph appeared together with her sporting a police jacket and simulating a intercourse act as she crouched in entrance of him.
The cathedral in Purple Sq., Moscow, is seen as a vastly in style cultural image in addition to a sacred website by the Russian Orthodox church.
The pair had been arrested by the authorities for 10 days and fined 5,000 rubles (£51) with the court docket additionally ordering Bobiev – actual title Ruslani Talabjon – to be deported.
They had been later charged with “insulting non secular emotions.”
Bobiev and Chistova had been discovered responsible by Moscow’s Tverskoy district court docket and each had been sentenced to 10 months in a penal colony, in keeping with the state-owned information company TASS.
Underneath the legislation, a most of a 12 months’s jail time may be imposed however prosecutors had requested a 10-month sentence.
The legislation criminalising the insulting of emotions to non secular believers was handed in 2013 within the wake of the anti-Kremlin group Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer efficiency on the central Moscow cathedral.
Earlier this month, an OnlyFans mannequin allegedly obtained dying threats after video emerged of her flashing her boobs outdoors the identical cathedral.
The lady, who is understood to subscribers as Lola Bunny, was extensively condemned for her actions forcing the girl to challenge an apology.