MOSCOW - A Russian blogger was sentenced to inciting religious hatred Thursday "Pokemon Go" to play in a church, and received a suspended sentence.

Ruslan Sokolovsky has killed a new video on his blog last year that were the game of smartphones in a church on the assumption that the last Russian tsar and his family is built in the city of Yekaterinburg. He has been in prison since October.

The Richter Yekaterina Shoponyak Sokolovsky sentenced Thursday incitement to religious hatred and gave him a suspended sentence of three and a half years. It's the same offense that sent two women from Pussy Riot punk collective for two years in 2012 in prison.

Sokolovsky behavior and anti-religious video you expressed "lack of respect for society," Shoponyak said in televised remarks, adding that sokolovsky "intend to hurt religious feelings."

The judge said the 22-year-old video blogger not only judged the game in the church play, but also for the display of multiple videos, offend the faithful. It seems "mockery of concepcion Inmaculada" "" denial of the existence of Jesus and the Prophet Mohammed "y'una Description offensive Patriarch Kirill," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Speaking to reporters after the verdict Sokolovsky media thanked the alarm about the study to sound, described as a witch hunt often "would have been, were probably sent to prison if it is not for the support of journalists"

Once an officially atheist state, Russia has made a dramatic change since the fall of the Soviet Union, most Russians now identify themselves as Orthodox Christians. Although most Russians are observant, the Kremlin is determined to take the faith to promote their own agenda. The guilty verdict for the members of Pussy Riot encouraged radical religious activists who are successful in their public campaigns for theatrical performances and exhibitions closed forbidden. Last year, activists have launched a campaign to collect signatures to stop public funding for abortion.

The conviction of Sokolovsky caused outrage in Russia, with many personalities and described as a condemnation of atheism.

"I was born in the Soviet Union and grew up, where 98 percent of citizens were atheists," said opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Twitter Thursday was when the hearing webcast. "And now I hear a verdict in the man of atheism was convicted. "

Michail Fedotow, the Council for Human Rights of the Russian president, the Interfax news agency after the verdict that the trial board of case files, but the fact welcome that Sokolovsky received a suspended sentence, not prison head.