The State Duma is defending crosses. Russian legislation continues to be rapidly “churched”. Removing crosses from logos and banknotes may amount to “insulting the feelings of believers” — Novaya Gazeta Evropa

Collage: Alisa Krasnikova/Novaya Gazeta Europe. Yana Lantratova, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society and Issues of Public and Religious Associations, who is part of the Just Russia — For Truth faction, promised to begin the process of “legislative protection” of cross images on official symbols and commercial logos on April 1. Thus, she supported the call made the day before by Vakhtang Kipshidze, the officia…