Russia incidents - "118" ?



October 27, 2002

Hostage deaths reach 118 after rescue

in Moscow Theatre Crisis

September 1999 –

Apartments bombed in Moscow, 118 People killed

A faulty torpedo caused the Russian submarine Kursk to sink almost two years ago, killing all 118 people on board

Mother of God Protects Russia


Mystical aspects of hostage crisis

Pravda, 30 Oct 2002

A small article devoted to the recent tragic event in Moscow appeared on the
Russian Sky news site. The article is about mystical coincidences that have
taken place in Russia lately. The explosion of an apartment building in
Moscow on Kashirsky Street in 1999 killed 118 people. The tragedy onboard
the Kursk submarine killed 118 people. The crash of the Mi-26 helicopter in
Chechnya killed 118 people. One hundred and eighteen people died as a result
of the hostage-taking act of terrorism in Moscow.

"One night in 1999. An explosion of an apartment building on Kashirsky
Street in Moscow. The number of casualties is 118 people. August 12th of the
year 2000. The Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea. There were 118
people onboard the sub. August 19th, 2002. A Russian Mi-26 military
helicopter was downed in Chechnya; 118 people were killed as a result.
October 23rd, 2002. Over seven hundred and fifty people are taken hostage in
a Moscow music theater. The number of victims was 118 people as a result of
the siege. However, some sources of information say that 117 people died."

One might think that these are mystical coincidences. Others will say that
there is no coincidence at all. Nothing can be said here for sure. Only God
knows why. Nevertheless, there is definitely an explicit connection between
all these tragic events. This connection can be seen easily.

I once read an article that written by a modern-day Russian columnist. He
wrote in his article that Russia had stopped playing its world role, which
was earlier carried by the USSR. The Soviet Union protected the world from
the threat of wild capitalism. However, Russia lost the ideological and
spiritual struggle (let's hope that it's not a final defeat). This
eventually resulted in the troubles that have flooded the country recently.
They are not incidental.

Let's return to the latest events in Moscow. The Russian Sky News site
reports a fact, not a mystical coincidence. The hostages of the Nord Ost
music show were rescued on the same day that the Russian Orthodox Church
celebrated the discovery of the Iversky icon of the Mother of God. This icon
is said to protect the Caucasus. Archbishop Ioann of Belgorod said: "Such a
coincidence is not possible. The Mother of God protected Russia and all
Christian Russians. The people who performed the act of terrorism in Moscow
were programmed by demonic forces."

This is not the first time when the Mother of God has saved Russia. Here is
another interesting detail. Several hours before the storming of the music
theatre, PRAVDA.Ru published a prayer on one of its pages. We had to search
for a photograph to match the prayer very quickly. We picked up the first
photo that we saw. Later we discovered that it was a photograph of the
Iversky Icon. Was this incidental?

Sergey Stefanov
PRAVDA.Ru