The Moscow Golovinsky District Court took up a criminal case last year against the tattoo model Polina Face (real name Polina Morugina). excited Below the article about insulting the feelings of believers. On Tuesday, January 10, reports TASS.
“The court received a criminal case against Morugina PD initiated under Part 1 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public acts expressing open contempt for society and committed to insult the religious feelings of believers). The date of the meeting regarding this has not been determined yet,” the agency said in the court.
The reason for the criminal prosecution of the model was her post on social networks, where the capital posted her nude photos in front of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Under current legislation, the accused faces a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles, forced labor or imprisonment for up to one year.
heart of matter
25-year-old Polina Face has a non-standard appearance with tattoos all over her body and face. As they write about her on the Internet, the model gained wide popularity thanks to shooting in commercials for an audience over 18 years old.
Recall that in 2021, the Most Holy Theotokos in Fili published photos on social networks in which she was completely naked in the Church of the Intercession. The incident caused public outrage. Shortly after the photo was posted, it was deleted from the model’s accounts.
Exactly one year ago, in January 2022, the police started to check on this fact.
First they wanted to bring him to administrative responsibility but then decided to start criminal case.
“This act of a tattoo model falls under Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, there is no doubt that he was therefore found guilty. However, the article has a very broad interpretation, so each court may interpret this or that action as insulting the feelings of the believers, according to its own inner conviction. “socialbites.ca” independent lawyer Daria Akhtyrko.
He explained that insulting the feelings of believers is a petty crime, so that unless the accused has a previous conviction, there is no actual prison sentence. “In practice, courts are limited to fines, correctional work or suspended sentences. For example, in 2017, a resident of Sochi was fined 50,000 rubles for this article – caricatures of Christ with obscene inscriptions and Nazi symbols were found on his page.
In 2016, two citizens of the Kirov region were convicted of making balustrades, pasting offensive inscriptions on them and hanging them on a cross in a public place – as a result, they received 230 hours of corrective work. In 2017, in Yekaterinburg, in case of “catching Pokemon” in one of the local temples, the convict was given 3.5 years of probation,” he said.
sex in the temple
However, there have also been cases of actual imprisonment for insulting the feelings of believers. So, in October 2021, a Moscow court sentenced Tajikistan blogger Ruslan Bobiev and his girlfriend Anastasia Chistova to 10 months in prison for a provocative photo taken against the backdrop of St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square.
Young people were found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In a photo posted on social networks, a blogger imitated oral sex with a girl wearing a jacket with the words “police” on it. They were detained after the photo was posted on the Internet, they remember red blood cell.