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Saturday August 9, 2008
Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
A court in central Russia ordered on Friday the leader of a doomsday sect that recently spent more than six months underground waiting for the apocalypse to undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment.
“The defendant [Pyotr Kuznetsov] will not be responsible for the crimes he committed when mentally ill. The court has ordered compulsory treatment for him in a psychiatric ward,” Judge Maria Smyslova said.
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Tuesday July 22, 2008
Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Although Russian cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov has already been declared legally insane, the court will attempt to determine his mental state at the time his followers first went underground. » Full Story
Tuesday July 15, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
A local court in Russia’s Penza region is set to hear the case of the Doomsday cult leader, Pyotr Kuznetsov. He is accused of inciting religious hatred after he inspired 35 of his followers, including four children, to lock themselves in an underground bunker to wait for the Apocalypse last November. » Full Story
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
No confinement is in store for Kuznetsov in the habitual sense of the word because he was declared insane, Shatsky said.
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Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
A court in Russia’s Penza Region is expected to decide in late June whether the leader of a doomsday sect that spent half a year underground should be kept in a mental asylum, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Wednesday May 21, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The bunker became home to 35 sect members, including children, who barricaded themselves in last November waiting for the end of the world. [video]
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Monday May 19, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The long-running saga made local officials aware of some of the problems facing residents and local authorities even repaired roads to allow easier access to the cave, locals said.
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Friday May 16, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The nine were the last of a group of 35 men, women and children that had dug into a hillside near the Volga region town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if authorities tried to remove them. [video]
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Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Earlier Friday, rescuers and police completed an operation to bring to the surface the bodies of two deceased sect members. “As we pulled out the dead bodies, we suggested the others leave. They agreed,” Vladimir Provotorov said. [video]
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Thursday May 8, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Authorities say the only subject that cult members agree to discuss is about living conditions in the cave. They answer to all other questions by singing psalms or writing.
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Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Sect members still staying in the cave have not signaled any date of their possible coming out.
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Wednesday May 7, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Religious writings by doomsday cult leader Pyotr Kuzntsov have been declared illegal by a court in Russia’s Penza Region. The books were found to carry extremist ideas aimed at inciting hatred towards other religions and nationalities.
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Monday May 5, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
He had been hospitalized with head wounds on April 2. Although initial media reports claimed that he had been beaten by disillusioned sect members, authorities later said that his wounds were the result of a suicide attempt.
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Thursday May 1, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
A police source later said that the ‘cave-in’ had in fact not put the sect members in any danger, saying that “nothing catastrophic has occurred – rescue workers are clearing the entrance of fallen clumps of earth.”
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Monday April 28, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Members of a doomsday sect living in a cave since November in expectation of the end of the world are unlikely to emerge on Orthodox Easter, a regional official said according to news agency Interfax.
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Friday April 18, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Rumours started after most of the sect’s followers left the hideout earlier this month, with one of them allegedly giving a controversial interview to the press.
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Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The five former cave dwellers, who emerged from their underground cave in the Penza Region, central Russia, together with other members of the Orthodox Christian sect earlier this month, have also been ordered to pay a fine, Lyudmila Levina said.
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Monday April 14, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Despite one member of the sect claiming that the group is an offshoot of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the sect has generally been considered part of a wave of extreme Russian Orthodoxy in Russia and some former Soviet republics
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Saturday April 12, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The leader of the Doomsday cult, Pyotr Kuznetsov has regained consciousness a little over a week after an alleged suicide attempt.
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Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The leader of the Doomsday cult, Pyotr Kuznetsov, may face charges over his role in 35 cultists locking themselves underground for several months. Nine cultists remain underground and two are believed to have died. Those who’ve come out are being questioned ahead of possible charges.
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Friday April 11, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
Twenty-four members of the group, which went underground in November to wait for the end of the world, which they say will come in May or June, have left the dugout in the Penza Region in the last two weeks after most of the shelter’s roof caved in following heavy rain.
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Wednesday April 9, 2008
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A member of the cult has stated that two women died while the group was in the cave: one of cancer, the other during a fast.
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Monday April 7, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
A local government official says that police and emergency officials were remaining on duty outside the dugout where the remaining 11 sect members are still holed up.
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Friday April 4, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem • True Russian Orthodox Church:
“The eleven sect members remaining underground have proved to be the most hard-line. They have decided to halt talks for several days to think and pray,” said Anton Sharonov.
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Heavenly Jerusalem • Pyotr Kuznetsov • True Russian Orthodox Church:
The Doomsday cult members locked in an underground hideaway in Russia’s Penza region have vowed to stay silent and have stopped all negotiations with officials.
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