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A St. Petersburg tattoo artist has been charged with offending religious believers for her tattoos of Jesus Christ and other Christian symbols deemed “blasphemous,” the Fontanka news website has reported. Daria Krichker, 24, whose tattoos depict cats and anime characters alongside religious imagery, was detained at Pulkovo Airport on Saturday as she was attempting to flee to Armenia to escape a harassment campaign organized by influential conservative religious activists. Fontanka said, without citing its sources, that Krichker was on Sunday banned from leaving Russia pending her trial. Krichk…