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Four years ago, a court in the Russian Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk watched Kill The Cosmonauts a satirical music video that proposed murdering space adventurers for climbing toward heaven and was not amused.
The court found that the video, by a hardcore punk group called the Ensemble Of Christ The Savior And Crude Mother Earth, constituted extremist material. It banned the video, on the basis of a 2002 Russian law, and added it to a federal blacklist of prohibited materials. It is hard to imagine that the calls…contained in the text could be taken seriously even by the most radical audience, the
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A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a 69-year-old mother to jail for her religious beliefs, becoming the first woman jailed amid the Kremlin s continued crackdown on Jehovah s Witnesses.