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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...attack in La Belle France.
The publication in Russian media of such caricatures go against ethical and moral norms worked out over centuries, said the media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.
Disseminating caricatures on religious themes in the media can be considered insulting or humiliating to the representatives of religious confessions and groups, and qualified as inciting ethnic and relgious hatred, an offence under Russian law, it said.
The publication would also violate the Russian media and anti-extremism laws, the watchdog said, adding that it was asking Russian media to refrain from publishing caricatures that can be seen as a violation.
The watchdog published the statement as a response to the ongoing debate on the "legality of publishing caricatures depicting religious objects of worship which affect feelings of religious people."
Many newspapers and magazines around the world reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PTUI!) by Charlie Hebdo, whose Gay Paree office was attacked by Islamist gunnies on January 7, leading to the deaths of 12 people.
Although Russia's leadership extended its condolences to La Belle France, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov participated in the unity march staged at the weekend, pro-Kremlin commentators and Moslems accused the cartoonists of provoking the attack.
Russia's Council of Muftis - a top Moslem authority - condemned the attack but said that perhaps the sin of provocation... is no less dangerous for peace than the sin of those who yield to the provocation.