Demons

You can say what you like about Vladimir Putin (at least provided you take reasonable care as to geographical location and teapot radioactivity), but at least he shows respect for religion. A tactless atheist in southern Russia has been charged with offending the sentiments of Orthodox Christians after a webchat during which he proclaimed the non-existence of God and referred to the Bible as a "collection of Jewish fairy-tales". Appalled at this crude and nuance-free view (besides fairy-tales, the Bible also includes re-written history and forged correspondence), one of his fellow webchatters lodged a complaint; and the infidel has spent a month on a psychiatric ward and now faces a year in prison under legislation that was rushed through, in the best Blairite style, after Pussy Riot staged their stunt four years ago in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. It seems most unlikely that Putin's godless, doctrinaire, crypto-Corbynite predecessors would have shown such concern for the pious of Holy Russia or their itsy-bitsy feelings.