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Art critics Yuri Samodurov, Andrei Yerofeyev, and Lyudmila Vasilovskaya; artists Alexander Savko and Artem Loskutov; members of Pussy Riot; human rights defender Maxim Yefimov; and many other activists might have been sentenced to between three and five years in prison if a proposed Russian law on blasphemy had been adopted earlier.
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Gainutdinov, D. (2015). Russian Practice: Persecution for Criticism or Punishment for Blasphemy. In: Gerlach, J., Töpfer, J. (eds) The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02441-3_5
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