Hello,
Today on Rotus, I found a very pleasant surprise. He did a review about Windows to Russia!
No, he was not paid to do this. (He even put that in writing, that is a good thing because I could not pay his regular review fee of 5,534,876 pesos!)
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Thank You for being a good friend, Clark!
Kyle & Svet
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20/03/2008 15:28 NIZHNY NOVGOROD, March 20 (RIA Novosti) – Emergency service workers in central Russia have carried out an operation to prevent thaw waters reaching a cave where 35 members of a doomsday sect have been holed up for almost five months.
The sect, including four children, have been holed up in the cave in the Penza Region since the fall of 2007 waiting for the apocalypse, which they say will happen in May 2008. They have threatened to set fire to themselves if any attempt is made to force them out.
“Rescuers have dug special drainage ditches to prevent thaw waters from reaching the cave,” said an official with the emergency services.
The official went on to say that there was little likelihood now of the cave being submerged by underground waters in the spring thaw, adding however that, “If a need arises, rescue workers will come to the site again to carry out any necessary work.”
He also added that police officers on duty near the cave were monitoring the situation and that there were contingency plans in place to rescue the sect members if flooding did occur.
According to the sect’s founder, Pyotr Kuznetsov, the cave is said to have been divided into five cells, with one large ‘room’ set aside for prayers. The prayer room is also to be used for the eventual burial of the sect members.
Kuznetsov is currently being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in a psychiatric hospital in Penza, about 600 km (370 miles) southeast of Moscow.
Religion was tightly controlled in the U.S.S.R. and the collapse of the Soviet Union saw an explosion in sects and cults, as well as interest in New Age philosophies and beliefs in Russia and many other former Soviet republics.
There are currently believed to be around 500-700 such sects in Russia, containing some 600,000-800,000 people.
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Sounds more like America everyday that I am here. 🙂
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
PS:Remember (Waco: 74 members of Branch Davidians cult, including leader David Koresh, died in a fire) I remember!
Hello,
This is Cool! I have heard of Cows and Bears in American cities. Never thought of a Moose running loose in a huge city like Moscow…..
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Wild moose ‘on the run’ in south Moscow industrial zone
19/03/2008 19:56 MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti) – A wild moose that strayed into an industrial zone in the south of Moscow is currently being sought by environmentalists and police, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
The moose was initially discovered near a residential building on Varshavskoe Highway.
The animal disappeared into trees near a group of garages and is currently thought to be somewhere in the midst of an industrial zone surrounded by residential buildings, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
Police are planning to catch the moose with the help of environmental specialists and to return it to its native habitat. Moscow Zoo employees are also at the scene.
Although Russia has the world’s second largest moose population, with approximately 500,000 animals, moose are rarely seen in big cities as they inhabit forests and large parks, feeding on grass, plants, leaves and bark.
Moscow police said that the moose had not caused any trouble or damage to property.
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I hope that the Moose is caught and released safely.
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
Siberian hairdresser killed over price of haircut
20/03/2008 14:36 MOSCOW, 20 March (RIA Novosti) – A man in the southwest Siberian city of Omsk is due to stand trial after being accused of killing a hairdresser over the cost of a haircut, the local prosecutor’s office said on its website on Thursday.
In October last year, Vadim Tikhonov tried to leave a hairdressing saloon without paying for a haircut. The hairdresser tried to prevent him from doing so by standing in front of him.
In response, police say, Tikhonov grabbed a hammer and hit the hairdresser with it, after which he took a knife and stabbed her 12 times. The hairdresser later died in hospital.
Police later established that Tikhonov had left the hairdressing saloon without paying as he felt the price of the haircut – 100 rubles or $4 – was “too high.”
Tikhonov later admitted his guilt to police during questioning.
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I had a server in America put into the hospital for 2 weeks because she got mad at a customer for not leaving a tip & he beat her up in the parking lot after she got off work. (She almost died from ruptured spleen and other internal injuries)
Sad…
Kyle & Svet
comments always welcome.
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