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Mother Knows Best
It's been fashionable lately to say that human life isn't worth anything in Moscow anymore, but a young Russian couple proved that wrong last week when they were caught trying to sell their infant son for $23,000 dollars. According to the press center for RUOP, the organized crime task force, Oleg and Larisa Saakyan were apprehended on the territory of the 67th city hospital when they tried to sell their baby to undercover police operatives.
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| "I told you to take that clock off the shelf!"
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"They were planning to buy themselves a new car and some property in Ukraine," said RUOP spokesman Andrei Pashekevich. "They said it was hard to find work, while babies make themselves."
Chubais Family Snapshot
All honest families are alike, while corrupt families are corrupt after their own fashion. What's life like in the family of Vice-Premier Anatoly Chubais? A bizarre incident which took place last week may shed some light on the subject.
According to police, Igor Chubais, the elder brother of the much-maligned architect of Russian privatization, was riding in his "Neva" along Leningradsky Prospekt when he decided to pick up a young man who'd flagged him down for a ride. Because this is the Chubais family, Igor was, naturally, carrying in excess of forty thousand dollars in cash-money he has yet to disclose the origins of-as he drove.
Coincidentally-or perhaps not-the man whom he'd picked up turned out to be a thief; he managed, according to the victim, to swipe the suitcase containing the money without Igor realizing it. As if this story weren't strange enough already, computer animators working for the police were stunned when they plugged in Igor's description of the suspect and watched as the computer spit out a portrait that bore a striking resemblance to Igor's little brother Anatoly. The portrait was subsequently published by a gleeful Moskovsky Komsomolets on their front page. Sounds just like our family!
Shitstorm Avenue
Ulitsa Molostovikh in eastern Moscow is fast becoming the Russian version of Freddy Krueger's Elm Street, as three children in three separate incidents in the past two weeks were seriously injured by objects thrown from balconies.
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In one, an eight year-old boy was nearly killed by a falling beer bottle, while in another a 5 year-old boy was concussed by a falling chair. In a third, two schoolgirls received facial cuts and eye injuries after a falling bottle exploded on the pavement, sending glass shrapnel flying all around. Police believe the chair fell off a balcony accidentally, while they are still searching for a suspect in the two bottle incidents, which they believe to be intentional. In either case, children in the area are being advised to avoid walking under balconies.
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