Two links with stories about present-day Russia, its beliefs and secrets

A couple of links about weirdnesses of today Russia, featuring: cui prodest the rampaging pyramid-power-madness? why does the icon of the last Czar weep tears of myrrh-scented oil? and what about Lenin’s ghost (the famous Spectre roaming across Europe, I’d daresay)? and would you like the Underground Planet as your campaign setting?
And, by the way, let me wish you all fellow gamers a good green-wooden-monkey chinese New Year.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2843/4_26/88826365/p1/article.jhtml

http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1997/mj97/mj97ilnitsky.html

G. Germont