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The Moscow Times Moscow Guide – Winter 2008

Since the middle of autumn one of the most important topics of discussion, could only be … no, not the financial crisis… New Year! The winter issue of The Moscow Times Moscow Guide is entirely devoted to New Years celebrations. Seven great ideas for celebrating the “Night of Nights” will help readers finalise their plans and choose how and where to party, give fresh ideas and lots of practical advice.

And don’t forget – problems will come by themselves, but happiness and luck need an invitation. That why the more cheerful and light-hearted your celebration of the coming holiday is, the happier and more successful 2009 will be for you.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Updated at 31 December 2008 22:36 Moscow Time.

The Moscow Times » Issue 4033 » News

Suspended Sentence for Wife Who Killed Husband in Couch

18 November 2008A St. Petersburg woman who killed her husband by shutting him inside a folding couch has been given a one-year suspended sentence, prosecutors said Monday.

In response to an insulting comment from her husband in July, Vera Lukyanova, 55, closed the folding couch her spouse was lying on, St. Petersburg city prosecutors said in a statement.

Lukyanova was drunk at the time, they said.

Her husband was crushed as the couch folded up, and he suffocated after he was unable to free himself, the statement said.

In July, St. Petersburg's Channel Five television showed rescue workers sawing through the folding sofa in order to reach the man, who was wearing his underwear and was trapped between the mattress and the back of the couch.

The rescue workers told Channel Five that Lukyanova had left her husband for three hours before checking on him and finding him dead.

Lukyanova had been facing up to two years in prison on manslaughter charges.

However, St. Petersburg's Vyborgsky District Court handed her a one-year suspended sentence.