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Streaming star, 24, faces a year in jail for posing naked in front of church

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A Russian streaming star faces a fine or jail after posing naked in front of a church in Moscow.

In the latest in a series of cases cracking down on revealing pictures close to sacred sights, Polina Murugina, 24, is undergoing a law enforcement check.

She faces a fine of up to £3,000 or a year in jail if found guilty of “insulting the religious feelings of believers”.

The tattooed online star posed outside the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Moscow, say multiple media reports.

The picture was taken last summer but recently was reported to police.

The streaming actress has not commented on the police action but has closed her Instagram account where the church image was published.

It is the latest in a series of Russian moves against racy posts beside churches or state buildings including the Kremlin.

Last year a Moscow court jailed two pranksters to ten months for simulating oral sex near onion-domed St Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square.

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Ruslani Murodzhonzoda — a 23-year-old Tajik national also known as Ruslan Bobiyev — and Anastasia Chistova, 19, had both apologised for the “harmless” stunt posted on Instagram, but were shown no mercy by the judge.

They were imprisoned under a new Russian law which found them guilty of offending the feelings of religious people.

In another case, influencer Ira Volkova, 30, was held in St Petersburg for exposing her rear outside floodlit St Isaac's Cathedral.

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