Facts stranger than fiction

Maxim Perepelitsa of nowadays

For the first time in the history of the country a claimant appealed to the court with a complaint against his local draft board that refused to satisfy his wish to join the Army. The matter was that a citizen of Yaroslavl Alexander Ya. had been tried for theft, found guilty and sentenced to a fine, which he paid the following day. The representative of the draft board asserted that convicted citizens were not eligible for army draft, according to the direction of the Ministry of Defense.

Pervomaysky district court of the city of Yaroslavl affirmed that Alexander’s conviction was long since extinguished and he was actually considered free of conviction. Therefore the court engaged the draft board to overlook its decision. "My right to serve in the Army is guaranteed by the Constitution", said the happy recruit.

The ways of Yury Detochkin are still in use

A citizen of Volgograd Nadezhda Vyaznikova "benefited" 47 people in all by providing them with false pensionary certificates.

Vyaznikova began to do good according to her idea of it several years ago. Then she worked as a senior inspector in the human resources department of the Volzhsky Pipe(?) Factory. Without making any profit herself she illegally fixed a pensionary allowance for her cohabitant. To do it she entered false information of his allegedly preferential service record to his documents, fabricated a certificate of his position at the factory and all other necessary documents. As a result the man who was totally unaware of anything started receiving an allowance of over 1300 rubles.

Another citizen, B., joined the "honorary" list of pseudo-pensioners due to providing Vyaznikova with good-quality medical assistance at her home. The patient decided to thank her Aesculapius. For the whole matter to look believable, the faker stole the passport, track record and savings books, wrote out all necessary data, then put the documents back. From the "victim’s" name she wrote an application to give her pension and transfer it to her savings account.

Vyaznikova bountied quite a few friends and acquaintances in the same way on the account of the state. Now and then she consulted her retired friend about flinging in some money to this or that person. The most remarkable thing was that the women did not get a kopeck’s profit from their manipulations.

The two philanthropists were found guilty by the Volzhsky court in fraud and fabrication of documents. The inspector was sentenced to confiscation and 4 years and six months in a penal colony. Her friend was put on two years of parole. The gorsobes (city social welfare organization) sued Vyaznikova for the damage of about 105 thousand rubles. But the convicted woman was able to redeem at once only 1000 rubles.

We have our own Monika!

A deputy of the Kaliningrad city council Mr. K. applied to the Central district court with a complaint to … sexual harassment. He was attacked by a female deputy of the same council, Ms. P.

"On the 28th of January 1999 I, K.S.P. (full name) came out of the election committee room and entered my office. There I opened the closet and began to put on my jacket. Scarcely had I thrust a hand in the sleeve, when P.E.A. (full name) rushed in. She had obviously been watching my office. P. dashed in my direction and made a movement with her hand, either to strike or to embrace me. I caught her hand and asked what was the matter. P. did not stop but moved onto me with her bosom, saying with some kind of yearning in her voice, "You know it yourself". I turned her round and began forcing her out into the corridor, but she seemed stuck to me. We were seen by other people in the corridor, and P. cried: "He is beating me!" to save her reputation.

I suppose that P. decided to make that last step wishing to wake my responding sentiments. I had long since noticed that she was not indifferent to me. She used any possible chance to cast certain looks at me, tried to look attractive. We first met during a business trip to Holland. We lived in the same hotel in Amsterdam, visited the famous street of red lamps. It was then that I felt her special sympathy. Since that time I avoided being left alone with P.

I am married and a father of three children. P. is also married and is three years older than me… I would not blame this prisoner of passion in her feelings, if not for these extremes. I have developed a nervous breakdown due to her sexual harassment, I am anxious for my family, for my voters who had done me honor to elect me a deputy.

I appeal to the court to protect me from P’s attacks. I find her criminally liable under Clause 133 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation."

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