Do as I say.

MOSCOW — Officials were talking with more than two dozen doomsday cult members holed up in a snowy forest near the Volga River to await the end of the world, which their leader says will come in spring.

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Self-declared prophet Pyotr Kuznetsov, who established his True Russian Orthodox Church after he split with the official church, blessed his followers before sending them into the cave earlier this month, but he did not join them himself.

"Officials Work to Coax Doomsday Cult Out of Russian Cave." Associated Press, 11/17/07.