{"id":614,"date":"2013-04-12T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=614"},"modified":"2013-04-11T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:59:00","slug":"antiblasphemy-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/04\/antiblasphemy-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Russia With Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/04\/10\/155545706-b114dbe2626c3b0f2ad0c5d6d7e17cc7a9363f51-s40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/04\/10\/155545706-b114dbe2626c3b0f2ad0c5d6d7e17cc7a9363f51-s40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the <a title=\"Pussy Riot member denied appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/jan\/17\/pussy-riot-member-prison-sentence\">Pussy Riot charade<\/a>, <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong>&#8216;s government is promoting an <a title=\"Russian MPs back harsher anti-blasphemy law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-22090308\">anti-blasphemy law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian commentators say the <strong>bill appears to have strong backing from Mr Putin<\/strong>. It was passed by the Duma &#8211; Russia&#8217;s lower house &#8211; in a first reading on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>To become law it has to pass two more readings in the Duma, then a vote in the upper house &#8211; the Federation Council &#8211; and get a final sign-off by Mr Putin. The entire <strong>parliament is dominated by Mr Putin&#8217;s supporters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The text refers to offences against religions that are &#8220;an integral part of Russia&#8217;s historical inheritance&#8221; &#8211; implying that <strong>it covers Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, because your god is so powerful he needs the protection provided by a fascist Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Pussy Riot charade, Vladimir Putin&#8216;s government is promoting an anti-blasphemy law:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,45,156,200],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}