Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Apartment Shortage

I think that flats in Moscow are wonderful. Many families often share large 65 - 92 square meter (700 - 1000 sq/feet) aparments with grandparents, parents, and children. Apparnently this woman disagreed (from Reuters)

"MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian woman paid a former convict to kill her 17-year-old son because she was fed up with sharing her small one-room apartment with him, the newspaper Izvestia reported on Wednesday.

The 42-year-old crane operator paid the man a 2,100 rouble ($80) deposit to kill her son, Izvestia said. But the would-be hitman told the police who set up a sting operation and arrested her when she handed over the 900 rouble 'completion' payment....

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