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Friday July 18, 2008
Heavenly Jerusalem: 
Although the sect leader has been declared legally insane, the court will attempt to determine his mental state at the time his followers first went underground.Two members of the sect perished in the dugout, one from malnutrition brought about during fasting, and another from cancer.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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