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shot in podyezd |
connected w/ Russian sports |
murder for less than $100 |
really stupid criminal |
explosive device |
cries for help ignored |
perp in body count |
children |
"investigation continuing" |
carved up like a turkey |
cannibalism |
riddled with bullets |
related to victim's job |
A Terrible Story
Time to introduce Death Porn readers to a little-known statute in the criminal code- article 110. Article 110 is a felony prohibiting the driving by one person of another to suicide, and is very rarely encountered even in modern Russia. As fate would have it, however, one such case is currently being tried in the Moscow suburb of Mozhaisk, where an 11-year old boy hung himself on the street in front of his house after an incident in which he allegedly told on a bully who had demanded he steal money from his mother. The suspect, a 15 year-old who is being described in the press as "Ivan Sergeyev," (the judge in the case has requested that the names minors not be published), is accused of threatening to beat up the victim, his younger sister Olya, and his mother if he did not bring in 250,000 rubles to school.
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| "Hey, great New Year's party! Just one thing - can someone find me a lampshade?"
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The victim ("Roma" in the newspapers) apparently stole the money, was caught by his mother, and under her questioning gave up Sergeyev's name. The next day, the mother informed the school,. and Sergeyev was brought in for a talk with school officials. Brought face to face with Sergeyev, Roma got scared and said sudenly that this was not the same Sergeyev he'd been talking about. There was no other Sergeyev in the school. After school he confessed his mother that it had been that same Sergeyev, only he'd been afraid to say so in public. The mother sent him home and went off to do some errands. When she came back, she found him next to the door to the apartment building in his slippers. From a distance she yelled at him for being out in the cold without shoes, but when she came closer she saw that he was hanging from a tree. Inside, she found a note: "I'm a coward and the whole school knows it now." The case has been in the courts for a year and a half now and has only just been sent back for a new trial; new doubts have been raised about Sergeyev's guilt, as witnesses in the recent trial have come forward to testify that Roma frequently stole from his home. In any case, investigation into this case has established that "bully extortion" was a very organized phenomenon in Mozhaisk, with the larger post-pubescent kids earning well off their classmates, particularly those whose parents had money. And we thought wedgies were bad...
Freeze!
Here's a story with lots of the best things about life in Russia rolled into one- literally. A 32 year-old dealer in meat products from the Moscow suburb of Ivanteyevki bought 70 million rubles worth of kolbasa from TOO "Avishe." He was about to sell the meat when a surpsie inspection by the San-Epidemstansiya ruined him; they declared the meat of poor quality and seized the entire load. The meat dealer complained to "Avishe," but his partners weren't impressed with either the SES ruling or the dealer's decision not to pay the 70 million rubles.
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So late on Friday, Deecember 19 they kidnapped him and locked him in a commercial refrigerator at the Avishe plant on Sharikopodshipnikobskaya Ulitsa. The dealer sat in the fridge all evening, then through night and the morning before members of the local ROOP (a subspecies of RUOP) came in on the scene, waded through the meat and saved the day. The director of Avishe was arrested in connection with the incident and the sanctity of Moscow kolbasa was preserved for yet another day.
Happy New Year
It was a happy holiday season for workers of the Moscow Aerogeodesic Institute, whose accountant last week was slaughtered after a pre-New Year's Party just before she was due to give out holiday salaries. The Insitute, peopled mainly by cartographers and scientists and located on Volgogradsky Prospekt, was shocked last Friday when workers in search of their salaries discovered the accountant shot dead in her office, with 170 million rubles missing from her drawer. Police speculate that she put up a fight when thieves tried to take the money and only shot her when she refused to give in. Workers left without salaries were said to be pleased at the chance to prove themselves in the competitive market economy.
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| "So anyway, doctor, about a week ago I noticed this rash. Do you think it's anything serious?"
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