Overview
- State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveev requested that Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan investigate, stop sales, and hold the producer accountable for toilet paper featuring St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower.
- Matveev argues the imagery is sacrilegious to believers and says the depiction of a Kremlin symbol discredits organs of state power.
- The product is identified as the Moskovskaya brand made by Tver Tissy LLC, listed on the Ozon marketplace, and reported as sold in Russia as well as in Kazakhstan and Armenia.
- Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church called the images on such products unacceptable and voiced support for a thorough review, with Metropolitan Kliment noting that use of Kremlin imagery may require special permission.
- At the time of reporting, the manufacturer had not commented, and no public response or action from the Prosecutor General’s Office had been announced.