A Moscow judge on Wednesday sentenced a former bar employee to three years and 25 days in prison for making a hookah out of an Orthodox Easter cake.
Ksenia Belousova achieved viral fame in April for an Instagram video showing a hookah with a bowl shaped like a kulich, a traditional Russian Easter pastry.
“Even Christ would rise from the dead for this,” Belousova said in the video, which she later deleted after facing backlash from pro-government channels.
Despite apologizing online for what was meant to be a joke, police arrested Belousova last month and forced her to apologize again on camera.
A municipal court in Moscow’s Lefortovo district on Wednesday found Belousova, 27, guilty of offending the feelings of religious believers, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
