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Electronic Telegraph
International News
Thursday 20 March 1997
Issue 664
Satan cult leaders hunted after teenagers found hanged
By Alan Philps in Moscow and Dmitry Belyakov in Tyumen
RUSSIAN police are searching for the ringleaders of a Satanic
cult in western Siberia, after a series of deaths among young
devotees. The cult was concentrated near the oil city of Tyumen,
1,400 miles east of Moscow, where five young people were found
hanged. The deaths were originally thought to be suicides. But
pressure from the parents and the discovery of cabalistic
jottings suggest the youths were involved in a seven-stage
initiation ceremony that culminated in ritual suffocation. The
deaths occurred last year, but the authorities have only now
begun to act on evidence that the youths were suffocated before
being hung up by leather belts to simulate suicide. The first
death was in April, when Denis Abramov, 19, was found hanged in
his room at home. In May it was the turn of Dima Bronnikov, 17,
and in July, Stas Buslov was found hanged from a tree. Three days
later his friend Sergei Sidorov, 18, died in the same manner at
home, as did Tanya Stankeyeva, 22, in October. The first death
occurred in the village of Roshchino, the other four in Antipovo,
both villages on the edge of Tyumen. All the victims used to meet
in a basement, which was equipped with a kind of Satanic altar
and had walls painted with diabolical signs and cryptic symbols.
The police, who have no experience of weird cults and want to
keep the crime figures down, originally showed no interest in the
deaths. But police captain Sergei Denisov said: "We have now
launched an investigation into criminal activity by a Satanist
sect. We are looking for the cult leader." Boris Buslov, the
father of Stas, has spent months going through diaries left by
his son. "I was looking for a suicide note or a hint of why he
had hanged himself. When I started to read and decode his diaries
it became clear that his death was the result of a cruel cult
ritual - or perhaps it was that he knew who killed Dima
Bronnikov and they could not let him escape."
One of the notes left behind by Stas shows him predicting his own
death: a boy is shown hanging from a tree. His father believes
that four codenames - Gabriel, Sashiel, Anael and Mikhael - refer
to the three dead boys and a fourth member, who has fled the town
for fear of death.
The mother of Sergei Sidorov said her son admitted to her shortly
before his death that he was involve in a cult. "Mama, I'm a
Satanist. I know it is bad, but I cannot escape. They are
terribly strong."
Thanks to contacts in the security services, Mr. Buslov
discovered that 36 young people aged from 12 to 22 have hanged
themselves in Tyumen province (population 700,000) in the past
year. While there is no known connection to any cult, the high
number of deaths has shaken the whole of western Siberia.
A spokesman for the provincial prosecutor's office said: "We
may be dealing with a serial killing, though it is not clear if
this is murder or incitement to suicide."
The leader of the cult is said to be a man in his 40s, who,
helped by two younger acolytes, exerted enormous influence on
naive provincial children. But, thanks to the tardiness of the
police, there seems little chance of catching those responsible.
The Orthodox Church originally refused to give the hanged youths
a Christian burial, as it regards suicide as a mortal sin. But it
has now decided that they are murder victims and will give them a
proper burial once the investigations are completed.
Churchmen blame the authorities for allowing a post-communist
boom in cults - from foreign imports such as the Moonies to
home-grown sects such as the Holy Virgin Centre and the White
Brotherhood, whose supporters once flocked to the centre of Kiev
to await the end of the world.
"We must all share the blame for this," said Archbishop Dmitry of
Siberia, speaking in the town of Tobolsk. He criticised President
Yeltsin for sending his grandson to school in England. "Don't the
politicians understand that, when their children come back to
Russia, they also share the risk of being involved in an evil
sect like the one killing children in Tyumen?" The archbishop
had his own explanation for the Satanic cult: Lenin's mummified
corpse, which is still housed in a mausoleum on Red Square in
Moscow, was brought to Tyumen for safety during the war in 1942.
"The seeds of Satanism were left behind after the body returned
to Moscow," he said.
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