Russia bans McDonalds

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/25-07-2014/128162-mcdonalds_russia-0/

that is official, coming from now reinstated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda newspaper.

A guy got 5 years in prison for pissing on WWII memorial:
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/416536/

His felony is "Desecration" by Article 244 of the Criminal Code.

That is right: Russia has sacred shit, like some Middle Eastern country.