Russian doomsday sect threatens mass suicide

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. 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.
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