According to previous reports by Otas and other media, there are many landmark religious buildings in Russia that believe in orthodoxy, and many of the city's medieval churches have become tourist attractions. But since the second half of last year, there have been frequent incidents of "humiliation of religious buildings" in Russia, which have seriously hurt the feelings of believers and local residents. And this has formed a strange trend, the Russian government hit hard under the attack of detention and imprisonment, but also repeatedly prohibited.
The report mentioned that the more famous incidents include irina Volkova, a model who took "extremely exposed" photos outside St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg last October, and she was detained by the police to warn her and fined; before that, another model named Lola Bonnie was arrested for taking nude photos outside Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral; and later an adult film star, Rita Fox, simply went outside Putin's official residence to take nude photos to hype, was caught on the spot and sentenced to short imprisonment Not long ago, another female Internet celebrity in Russia also faced censorship by law enforcement agencies for taking nude photos outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Fili in Moscow, and could not escape the consequences of detention fines.
Although the police have repeatedly complained about similar incidents and will inevitably be held responsible once they are discovered, some people have taken the initiative to send them to the door. A few days ago, angelina Kuznetsova, a hot Russian influencer blogger, took another set of bold photos of her and a female friend deliberately exposing her buttocks in front of the window of a hotel room and pointing it at a church-like building. It was soon ascertained that the filming was taken at the RentHouse Hotel in Yekaterinburg, Russia's Ural region, and the "background" facing her hips was the famous Zlathouste Great Admiralty Church, which was built in the 19th century.
After this incident, the RentHouse hotel suffered a "cyber storm", and the hotel owner received threatening letters and reprimands from various religious believers, and had to come forward to explain that he had blacklisted Kuznetsova, that he would not allow her to stay in the hotel, and apologized to those who were offended. Kuznetsova, the photographer, explained that the purpose of her photo was to exchange for a discount on the room rate, and someone told her that as long as she took a photo like this, she could get a free check-in service. But the hotel owner refused to admit that he knew about it, saying only that "someone did give a preferential room rate for the photographer" and that he would investigate the matter. Public opinion generally believes that this incident is the boss and this Internet celebrity blogger cooperating to hype the hotel, but did not expect to cause such a big controversy, the boss can only pretend not to know about the matter.
It is also worth mentioning that the police in Yekaterinburg have not yet intervened in this matter, and Kuznetsova will most likely be fined and detained in the future. A relevant person believes that the rise of "church blasphemy incident" in Russia is fundamentally the lack of religious belief by a new generation of young people with rebellious psychology, who are very keen to "deliberately destroy" the sacred atmosphere of these places, take photos with a sense of contrast, and use live broadcasts and other methods to win more people's attention and support; but there are still a group of believers who have a very reverence for churches in China, or people who can only accept similar behavior, and there will naturally be many clashes of ideas between the two sides.