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Moscow police ‘discover brothel on monastery premises’
Moscow police have discovered a brothel on the premises of a monastery whose abbot is thought to be President Vladimir Putin’s spiritual adviser.
Two women were arrested on suspicion of prostitution after seven rooms were found in a building close to Sretensky Monastery where sexual services were offered from 1,750 roubles (£35) per hour.
Father Tikhon, the abbot of the monastery, is said to be a religious counsellor to Mr Putin, who is a confirmed Russian Orthodox believer.
There were conflicting reports over the ownership of the brothel, found in one of a chain of mini-hotels called Podushkin.
Life News, a popular muckraking website with close ties to the police and security services, said the building where the brothel was located on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard had been rented out by the monastery.
However, an attendant at the monastery was quoted as saying: “Some time ago we rented premises for our seminary. The bordello was only found then, when we started to check which rooms had become temporarily ours, and which hadn’t. This establishment had been there for a long time; it belongs to someone and has absolutely no connection to us.”
RANDO
October 31st, 2012
Well that’s probably OK. Clinton’s spiritual advisor is Jesse Jackson(!)
Doc
October 31st, 2012
At least when there he can find PIECE!
suzsanne
October 31st, 2012
I bet Father Tikhon is flexible.
BILL
October 31st, 2012
shocking how people with positions of power are found out to actually abuse said power. priests, putin, hillary, billy boy, bush,geitner, bernake or obama.
boy, what will human nature come up with next ?
“do as we say not as we do!” should be the only law of the land anymore in any country. it apparently is the only one that appplies to anyone in positions of power.
judgeroybean
October 31st, 2012
Having trouble grasping concept of Putin worrying about his soul…On the other hand, maybe it’s like the Clintons and Obamas going to church only after giving the media a weeks notice.
66chevelle
October 31st, 2012
Brothel in a monastery? I thought monasteries were for men onl—ohhhh, I get it now. Man’s Country East.
Team America
October 31st, 2012
At least Silvio Berlusconi didn’t try to hide behind a monestary. I thought putin liked to be public.
mkultra
October 31st, 2012
Ras-putin?
persecutor
October 31st, 2012
First Church of the Kama Sutra
Extirpates
October 31st, 2012
This is historical re enactment at its finest.
The Middle ages are brought back to life in Moscow!!
daPenguin
October 31st, 2012
well that would never happen here, a bathhouse maybe but not a brothel
persecutor
October 31st, 2012
Putin’s Rasputin?
Stirrin the B.S.
October 31st, 2012
Communism is a Godless ideology. Any semblance of a church is a cover and nothing more.
Cynic
October 31st, 2012
The investigation went no where, because nobody was willing to talk
anonymoose
October 31st, 2012
Soetoro’s sending his resume there for after the election, so he can service Vlad. Claims he’ll be more flexible then AND there!!