Re: Missing Audi's in Russia

[Andrei Talalaevskii <andrei@felix.physics.sunysb.edu>]

Steve Currie - d21 wrote:
> 
> Thieves Steal Yeltsin's Cars
> 
> MOSCOW (AP) - About 20 cars belonging to President Boris Yeltsin's 
> administration have been stolen while their 
> drivers were moonlighting as taxi drivers, the
> ITAR-Tass news agency said Wednesday.
> 
> Thieves posing as passengers had the drivers take them to locations where
> accomplices stole the Audi cars at gunpoint, said Dmitry Ryzhikov, head of the
> Investigation Directorate of the Moscow Police Department.
> 
> Further details were not immediately available.

After some AP reports posted here recently, all very entertaining, I
thought this one was phony too. For some reason I cannot understand, I
decided to check this one (could be an unperceived suspicion).
Surprisingly this was true:

http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_story.html?FRONTID=EUROPE&STORYID=APIS6NDM8U00

Thanks!

Andrei