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Russian blogger arrested for 2 months for playing Pokémon Go in church

A 21-year-old blogger from the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Urals has been arrested for two months, after he posted a video on YouTube showing him playing the popular augmented reality game in an Orthodox church.

Although hunting for the fictional creatures has been quite "successful" in regard to the number of Pokémon the blogger acquired (that's according to his own comments), he now faces a less pleasant reality.Ruslan Sokolovsky was convicted of insulting the feelings of worshippers and inciting hatred by the local authorities, and was placed under arrest for two months, law enforcement officials announced on Saturday.

In August the blogger disregarded Pokémon Go's warnings to "not trespass while playing," and headed into the city's famous cathedral, the Church of All Saints, which was built on the site of Ipatiev House – the place in which the last Tsar of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered in the early 20th century.