{"id":65247,"date":"2026-05-25T06:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=65247"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:51:51","slug":"russia-demolishes-satanic-temple-in-moscow-and-arrests-its-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=65247","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Russia Demolishes \u2018Satanic Temple\u2019 in Moscow and Arrests Its Leaders<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65248\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-25-at-6.50.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-25-at-6.50.53-AM.png 577w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-25-at-6.50.53-AM-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Russian authorities have begun demolishing an illegal occult compound described as a \u2018Satanic Temple\u2019 in Moscow Region, which long outraged local residents with animal-bone rituals and swarms of acolytes.<\/p>\n<p>The demolition work began after a local court ruled that the three-story building \u2013 which served as the headquarters of the \u2018Empire of the Strongest Witches\u2019 sect \u2013 was built illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition crews moved in on Wednesday at the Zaytsevo village site near the town of Zaraysk around 120 km south of Moscow, after the Zaraysk City Court ruled that the 280-square-meter structure, which was styled as a \u2018Temple of Saturn\u2019 \u2013 was built without a permit on land zoned for farming.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/640323-satanic-temple-torn-down-moscow\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/640323-satanic-temple-torn-down-moscow\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65250,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65247\/revisions\/65250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}