Remember when Pokemon Go first launched and UK churches began welcoming players to the congregation? Well the Russians have a slightly different attitude towards hunting down Pokemon during worship.
A YouTuber is facing up to five years in prison after posting a video of himself playing the mobile game in church.
Rusian Sokolovski, who had already been detained for 2 months by the authorities, has now been charged with inciting hatred and insulting religious feelings.
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The video posted by Sokolovsky earned almost a million views and remains online. Sokolovsky himself has almost 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Due to this bizarre act of bravado, there’s a decent chance those subscribers might go a while without seeing any more videos from old Rusian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMn1yahGYk
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