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Russian doomsday sect threatens mass suicide
Luke Harding in Moscow
Thursday November 15, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The prayer hall in the Russian village of Nikolskoye where members of the doomsday sect met until their disappearance at the end of last month. Photograph: Komsomolskaya Pravda
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Luke Harding in Moscow
Thursday November 15, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The prayer hall in the Russian village of Nikolskoye where members of the doomsday sect met until their disappearance at the end of last month. Photograph: Komsomolskaya Pravda
To locals in the Russian village of Nikolskoye they were simply a group of eccentric Christian believers. And when 29 members of the sect abruptly vanished last month, villagers assumed they had packed up and gone.In fact, the religious doomsday cult had taken up residence in a remote underground cave. They had decided to barricade themselves inside until May 2008 - the date when their spiritual leader told them the world was going to end.
"Kuznetsov is their spiritual leader. He told them that the world would end in May and that the only way for them to save themselves was to go underground," Pavel Shishkin, a reporter with Komsomolskaya Pravda in Penza told the Guardian today. "They believed him. They've gone to sit it out."
Izvestiya newspaper yesterday reported that Kuznetsov suffered from schizophrenia and that in the last few months he had been sleeping in a coffin.
Izvestiya newspaper yesterday reported that Kuznetsov suffered from schizophrenia and that in the last few months he had been sleeping in a coffin.