A week ago, Ruslan Sokolovsky was a locally famous video blogger in Yekaterinburg, known for his self-titled atheist magazine modeled on Charlie Hebdo, and his YouTube videos, where he sits by a lava lamp, cracking jokes about organized religion. Today, just barely into his twenties, Sokolovsky is a national figure, celebrated and criticized across Russia for a stunt inside a church, not unlike the women of Pussy Riot.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s Pokemon-playing outlaw blogger faces prison
A woman holds her phone as she plays with the Pokemon Go application in central Rome on July 19, 2016.
