World Turned Upside Down

Up to seven years for “a premeditated hooligan act based on religious hatred” in Russia?

It sounds as if the laws have teeth there. Not that I wish seven years of familial separation on these tiresome devushki, or, more importantly, their little kids.

I've read recently that the Orthodox are much more on the watch for sacrilege than us Westerners. It sounds as if it's true, even in places where 90% of the self-identified Orthodox are non-practicing.