By Masha Charnay
Special to Russia Profile
07/21/2010
Last week the legal case of free speech versus the Russian Orthodox Church came to an end when Moscow’s Tagansky District Court convicted two prominent museum curators of “inciting hatred and denigrating human dignity” by staging a controversial art exhibit. In what appears to be a gesture of clemency, the court allowed Yury Samodurov and Andrey Yerofeev to avoid the jail term that the prosecution insisted on, instead ordering them to pay a total of 350,000 rubles ($11,500) in fines. The outcome spurred vehement reaction at both ends of the ideological spectrum and has raised concerns about the forces shaping the Russian Zeitgeist.
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