This is exactly the point. They are trying to protect Orthodox religion and stop the spread of Islam.
Exactly the point or exactly an excuse to fire up old habbits in the minds of old men/oligarchic kleptocrats?
Putin and his Soviet cohorts don't exactly have a stellar record regarding their appreciation for free argument and debate among the collective bipedal cattle herd that was penned behind the Berlin Wall. Have their spots changed?
“There are potentially very wide-sweeping ramifications to this law,” Joel Griffith of the Slavic Gospel Association said in a Mission Network News report. “It just depends on, again, how it is going to be enforced, and that is a very huge question mark.”
We'll see.
Well, assuming it's still legal to talk about it without permission anyhow....