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A Comic-Con In Russia Was Shut Down For Being 'Satanic'



What was expected to be a two-day celebration of horror, fantasy, and comics was quickly shut down by Russian authorities on November 1,the latest example of the country's crackdown on artistic and cultural expression.

The abrupt shutdown came after a Telegram channel associated with activists from the Russian Orthodox Church called for the conference to be investigated, branding the event "satanic" and accusing its organizers of attempting to lure minors into a "banned international movement."

In July, the Russian Supreme Court declared the "International Satanism Movement" extremist and banned its activities, even though no organization by that name exists.

Before the opening of the conference, another group of Orthodox activists from the Forty By Forty movement had complained about Necrocomicon. Forty By Forty is a powerful Orthodox Christian nationalist organization, named after the 1,600 churches that are thought to have existed in Russia's capital, Moscow, before the 1917 revolution.

https://www.rferl.org/a/comic-con-russia...80246.html

Russian comic fan is first jailed under Kremlin ‘Satanism’ ban



A man in St Petersburg who was arrested on his way to a comic book and fantasy festival has become the first person to be imprisoned under the Kremlin’s crackdown on supposed Satanism.

Artyom Repin was was detained on charges of possessing a goblet with a pentagram, an image of Baphomet, a goat-headed pagan deity, and a book called Satanic Rituals. He has been jailed for 12 days.

In July, the Russian Supreme Court outlawed the non-existent “international Satanist movement” as an extremist organisation.

The ban was enforced after President Putin, who has portrayed Russia as a stronghold of Christian values, claimed that the war in Ukraine was a battle against the “outright Satanism” of same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights.

Andrei Kartapolov, a senior MP who heads the Russian parliament’s defence committee, told officials before the ruling that Satanism was a “direct threat to Russian statehood”. Moscow has also designated the “international LGBT social movement”, which does not exist as a single organisation, as an “extremist” group.

The two-day NecroComiCon festival was shut down by police just hours after it had opened on Saturday. It had been branded “satanic” by an influential Russian Orthodox movement.

Repin said he had been arrested while standing outside the festival dressed as a priest and wearing make-up. The organiser of the festival, Alexei Samsonov, from Kazakhstan, has been arrested and is set to be deported, despite having a valid permit for Russian residency, according to Fontanka, a news website.

Under Russian law, displaying “satanic” symbols is punishable with a fine of up to 2,000 roubles [£19] or a maximum custodial sentence of 15 days.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/ar...-9plg5zvv9