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A Moscow court has banned the sale of toilet paper with printed patterns of 1,000-ruble bills, the independent news website Vyorstkareported Thursday, citing the court’s ruling. The decorative toilet paper was deemed to “offend religious feelings” since the 1,000-ruble banknote depicts Yaroslav the Wise, an 11th-century Kyivan Rus’ prince who was made a saint and, in 2016, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Moscow’s Preobrazhensky District Court sided with the prosecutor who brought the case forward and banned the websites of four online stores that sold the toilet paper. “In a free dem…

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