The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council wants to decriminalize insults that offend religious sensibilities, as well as narrowing legal definitions of extremism, a business news site has reported, citing council sources.
Presidential Rights Council proposes decriminalization of religious insults – report [rt.com]
about two or three years ago Russia banned street preaching, public proselyting and door to door missionaries. Both the Jehovah's Witless and the Morons were up in arms about it, if this is true it is a continuation of the same policy to lessen the power and influence of the churches other than the official state one.