Growth industry Aug 2, 2008
In 2002 Richard Willows, a former commodities trader, and Colin Hinchley, a farmer in his own right, came to Russia and bought up land in the Penza region that no-one was farming ... " Heartlands have now been followed by many other foreign agro-industrial giants. And not just foreigners but Russians, too, have seen that there is money to be made not just by drilling in the ground but by cultivating it as well. Deserted landscape A short drive off the beaten track on the way back to Penza showed... (BBC News -- Europe)
ER-Telecom Selects AudioCodes Residential VoIP Media Gateways Jul 28, 2008
Today ER-Telecom operates in corporate and private markets of 17 cities in Russia -- Perm, Samara, Volgograd, Volzhsky, Penza, Kirov, Ioshkar-Ola, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Tyumen, Izhevsk, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod. According to the Company's estimates, the holding's share in 15 cities (excluding Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod, launched in March, 2008) ranges from 30% to 60% of telecom services market. (Primezone Releases)
* World News Quick Take Jul 25, 2008
It was brought to Durazno, 180km north of the capital, by an Italian doctor, Emilio Penza. The toilet is in a house purchased by the town several years ago for less than US$80,000 and the town plans to open it for public viewing in the near future. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Russia opens 4th chemical weapons destruction plant to speed elimination of stockpile Jun 17, 2008
The facility near Leonidovka in the Penza Oblast will serve to destroy 7,600 tons (6,885 metric tons) of VX, sarin, and soman nerve agents, about 17 percent of Russia's declared chemical weapons stockpile, according to Global Green USA, the Washington-based affiliate of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International environmental organization. The plant is about 350 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Moscow. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Unique approach to HIV prevention popular with Russian youth Jun 4, 2008
Channeling Hope' will be launched in Penza region south east of Moscow in August 2008. -Ends. (AlertNet)
Russian doomsday cult siege ends May 17, 2008
Thirty-five followers of self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov entered the cave, in the country's central Penza region, last November. They had threatened to blow themselves up if police tried to remove them. (BBC News -- Europe)
Last Doomsday Cult Members Abandon Cave in Russia May 16, 2008
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. The elaborate structure _ complete with sleeping rooms, a makeshift kitchen and religious altars _ suffered a series of partial cave-ins earlier this year caused by melting snows. (Newsmax)
'Two dead' in Russian cave siege Apr 10, 2008
Thirty-five of them initially went into the cave in the Penza region, about 650km (400 miles) south-east of Moscow. Most have gradually emerged but it is thought about 11 remain inside, defying police pleas to leave. (BBC News -- Europe)
Two Russia cult members "died underground" Apr 9, 2008
Local authorities, who have been conducting negotiations with the cult members in a remote part of the Penza region in central Russia to persuade them to come out, said they could not verify whether anyone died until investigators had been underground. "We can not make any official conclusion based on information presented by Nedogon. For the moment he has not presented any evidence," Sharonov Anatoli, spokesman for Penza governor told Reuters ... The group of 35 people holed themselves up in... (International Herald Tribune)
Doomsday monk tries to coax Russian cultists out of cave Apr 5, 2008
Oleg Melnichenko, the deputy governor of the Penza region which lies 300 miles southeast of Moscow, told the Interfax news agency that he had called in Father Hermogen in a fresh attempt to reason with the sect ... In as much as their beliefs have been formed over a long period of time, convincing them to come out is not going to happen quickly, said Alexander Yelatontsev, a spokesman for the Penza regional authorities. (Yahoo News -- Russia)
Cult leader tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday Apr 5, 2008
He is in hospital with a head wound, said Oleg Melnichenko, deputy goveror of the Penza region. Doctors described his condition as stable after an emergency operation. (Yahoo News -- Russia)
* Fourteen members of doomsday cult leave Russian cave Apr 3, 2008
Another 14 cult members were still inside the bunker in Russia's Penza region, two of them children ... "All are in good health, considering they have spent half a year underground," said Oleg Melnichenko, deputy governor of the Penza region, where members of the cult have been holed up in a scrub-covered hillside since last October. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Russian cult members leave cave Apr 3, 2008
Oleg Melnichenko, the deputy governor of the Penza region, where members of the cult have been holed up in a scrub-covered hillside since October, said cult members who had come to the surface were in good health. "They have refused medical attention and are now in a house, praying, where they say they will stay until Orthodox Easter," Mr Melnichenko said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Members of Russian cult slowly emerge Apr 2, 2008
Yeskin said negotiators were trying to persuade the remaining 14 to come out of the underground hillside shelter, which was built in the Penza region, about 400 miles southeast of Moscow, last fall. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Russian Doomsday Cult Members Emerge From Damaged Cave Apr 2, 2008
Cult members told emergency officials that God had instructed them to leave, said Oleg Melnichenko, vice governor for the Penza region about 400 miles southeast of Moscow ... Penza regional emergency spokesman Dmitry Yeskin said the group that emerged Tuesday also handed over three rifles. (Fox News)
Russian cultists 'leave cave' Apr 2, 2008
"Two rooms collapsed on Tuesday. As a result 14 people came to the surface, including two children," deputy Penza region governor Oleg Melchenkno is quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. Priestly intervention. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russian doomsday sect leave cave Apr 2, 2008
A Russian NTV channel television grab from March 31 shows Oleg Melnichenko, deputy governor of the Penza region (C), with two members of a doomsday sect who were holed up in a cave in Nikolskoye ... "Two cells collapsed so they had to leave early," Anton Sharonov, a spokesperson for the local administration in Penza region, told AFP. ... Flood water caused parts of the cave to collapse, said Penza deputy governor Oleg Melnichenko, Interfax news agency reported, but the remaining followers are in... (iAfrica.com)
US probes contract on Iran gas supplies Mar 31, 2008
The doomsday cult members have been barricaded in an underground shelter dug out of a muddy hillside gully in the Penza region of central Russia since October. Russian authorities say they fear spring rains could cause the bunker to collapse. (Boston Globe)
Women leave doomsday cave Mar 31, 2008
The doomsday cult members have been barricaded in a cave in a hillside in the Penza region of central Russia since October. They have been refusing to come out until the end of the world, which they predict will happen in May. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Hope for end to Russia cave siege Mar 30, 2008
The True Russian Orthodox Church members barricaded themselves into the cave in the Penza region, about 650km (400 miles) south-east of Moscow ... The vice governor of the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said the women were in good health and did not need medical help. (BBC News -- Europe)
Wait for end of world wraps up early Mar 29, 2008
The vice governor of the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said in televised comments that the seven women came out voluntarily, carrying satchels with their belongings. He said the cult leader, the self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, was brought from a local psychiatric hospital to help persuade the women to leave. (MSNBC -- International)
Russian doomsday cultists fire on police Mar 25, 2008
Around 30 people, including some children, have barricaded themselves into the caves dug out of a hill in the Penza region of central Russia. They say the world will end on May 28. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
RWE, Sintez Win Auction for Russian Power Utility With $378 Million Offer Mar 15, 2008
TGK-6, with 14 power plants near the textile-producing city of Ivanovo, as well as Nizhny Novgorod and Penza, has 3,140 megawatts of capacity, about 10 percent more than TGK-2 or TGK-10. TGK-2 controls 16 natural-gas and fuel oil-fired power stations and has an installed capacity of 2,453 megawatts. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Post-Soviet worship Feb 5, 2008
"He looks like a decent, upright man," Mr. Fomin said in an interview at his office in the nearby city of Penza. By all accounts, Mr. Kuznetsov was a model husband and father and worked as an engineer with the Penza electrical utility. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Armageddon?Why the end of the world looks closer for some Russians Nov 22, 2007
The group retreated to the man-made cave in a wind-swept, snow-covered ravine in the Penza region, some 640km (400 miles) from Moscow, almost a month ago ... The Penza incident has prompted calls from some quarters for the authorities to act against such "home-grown" groups ... So far, however, there appears to have been sympathy for the Penza group from members of the Orthodox Church. (BBC News -- Europe)
Official: Cult leader to seek kids' release Nov 21, 2007
Russian police stand guardlast week on the hillside where cult members, who include four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered cave in the Penza region ... "He is ready to try to get the children out of there," said Guseynov, head of the internal policy department in the Penza region government. (MSNBC -- International)
Russiancultholed upin cave Nov 17, 2007
ReutersRussian police stand guard Thursday on the hillside where cult members, who include four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered cave in the Penza region. . (MSNBC -- International)
Russia cult members in cave siege Nov 17, 2007
Russian television showed pictures of black-robed Orthodox monks scaling down into a snow-covered gully in a forest in the Penza region, about 650km (400 miles) south-east of Moscow. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov is undergoing psychiatric examination. (BBC News -- Europe)
* Russian cult hides in cave, threatens to ignite gas tank Nov 17, 2007
The sect members are hiding out in a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia ... "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, said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Sect members wait in Russian cave for world to end Nov 16, 2007
The sect members are hiding out in a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia, about 60 miles from the town of Penza ... "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, said. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Russia sect awaits the end of the world Nov 15, 2007
The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia. A Penza police spokeswoman said they had moved into the dug-out on Nov 7. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Soviet Habits Show Up in Price Measures Oct 21, 2007
Shortly after being named prime minister last month, Viktor Zubkov toured a farm in Penza, 300 miles east of Moscow, and told his agriculture minister to do everything to make Russia self-sufficient in food. But with prices climbing fast, Zubkov is now backtracking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Putin hands baton to himself Oct 3, 2007
He was shown in rural Penza last week talking milk yields with a farm director and instructing the agriculture minister to protect Russian farming from imports ... And he railed against VTB, a state bank, for refusing a loan to a Penza paper mill, which borrowed from a Czech bank instead. (MSNBC)
Local pastor visits Russia Jun 22, 2007
Prior trips to Russia have included the cities of Smolensk, Penza and Krasnodar. In the first two cities, year-long schooling was conducted, and every two weeks those from the United States who were teaching the course would change. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Scottish farmers eye new pastures in Russia May 27, 2007
Just months after the Russian government changed the law to allow foreigners the right to lease land and establish private farms, the first organised delegation of UK farmers will fly to the region of Penza, 400 miles south-east of Moscow, in search of greener pastures ... Earlier this year a delegation led by the governor of Penza, Vasily Bochkarev, held a series of seminars in Nottingham and Edinburgh to tempt British farmers ... Since we arrived in Penza we've had nothing but support. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
