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02 August 2013, 13:03Prosecutors demand removal of extremist billboard from church in Leningrad Region
St. Petersburg, August 2, Interfax - A billboard containing an extremist statement has been removed from the building of a church in the Volkhovsky District of the Leningrad Region at prosecutors' request.
The billboard, which was placed on the arch gates of the territory of the public organization Parish of the Church of the Veil of Our Lady located in the village of Dudachkino, stated "Orthodox Faith or Death."
"On December 21, 2010, the statement, which was posted on the Internet, was found to be extremist and put on the federal list of extremist materials by the Moscow Cheryomushkinsky District Court," the report says.
In this regard, the Volkhovsky city prosecutor filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of the billboard. The court granted the prosecutor's claim fully and ordered the senior priest of the church to remove the billboard. The court ruling was not fulfilled for several months (in February-July 2012), the press service reported.
The prosecutors had to fulfill the court ruling forcibly. The billboard has now been removed.
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