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The Truth About The Mirny Diamond Mine
By Cody Copeland / Nov. 9, 2021 11:56 am EDT
Soviet Russia was never one for ponying up the truth about any of the sundry shady dealings it was involved in. The brutal truth about the labor camps the country ran for decades remained unknown to the outside world for most of the 20th century, for example. And where does such a country hide the dirty little secrets it doesn't want getting out? Why, somewhere no one willingly wants to go: Siberia.
One such secret was exactly how the Mirny Diamond Mine, in Eastern Siberia, was so productive. According to All That Is Interesting , work on the mine began in the late 1950s, as Russia was putting itself back together after the Nazis nearly wiped every single Soviet off the map during World War II. It was no easy task, either. For one thing, Siberia is cold. Very cold. Thermometers there register an average temperature of 40 below, freezing the ground into unforgiving permafrost until the spring comes. When it does come, the permafrost melts into a muddy sludge that doesn't make things any better.
But the Soviets figured it out and by the dawn of the 1960s, the Mirny Diamond Mine was not only in business, it was booming, producing an average of 10 million carats of the shiny little rocks each year. A fifth of those were gem quality. But the monopolizing guys over at De Beers smelled something fishy and wanted to know the truth behind this mine that was eating into their profits.
The De Beers executives didn't believe that such a comparatively small mine should be able to pump out so many precious stones, so they tried to get a look into its operations. As Amusing Planet notes, production should have dropped off by the 1970s, but Russia kept flooding the market with high-quality diamonds. The De Beers guys were finally granted a tour of the mine in 1976, but Russia made sure they only got about 20 minutes to poke around, and they didn't come away with any answers to their burning question.
The mine remained in operation by a few private companies after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 until it was abruptly and inexplicably closed in 2001. What remains is a gigantic hole in the ground that creates such a violent vortex due to the cold air from below meeting the warmer (comparatively speaking) air at ground level that it has the power to suck helicopters and other small aircraft down into it to their doom. No one has ever solved the mystery of how the mine produced such impressive numbers. It pumped out as much as $13 billion worth of diamonds during its lifetime.
Some sources say the mine is abandoned, but Russian company Alrosa says it's been operating it as an underground mine since 2009. As with many things in Russia, both then and now, the truth is hard to come by. Unless you're willing to make the trip to Siberia yourself to see, best to just accept the mystery and call it a day.
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‘ Siberia ‘ is a moderately immodest 2018 Russian-English bilingual action thriller set in the shadowy east, with Keanu Reeves providing a nervous edge to the plot.
The spy thriller directed by Matthew Ross follows a not-so-spy who becomes entangled in a web of intrigue. Lucas Hill follows his wife’s advice and tries to be kind to everyone before starting an affair with Katya.
Who knows where his seller Pyotr is, and diamond trader Lucas Hill is playing dangerously near to death in the meantime.
The movie unfolds like a western set in the East, with an improbable romance and a few nasty surprises thrown in for good measure.
The shocking conclusion and awkward lovemaking sequences give this otherwise dreary and sterile storey some life.
Let’s take a closer look at the conclusion.
Pyotr, who promises to make Hill wealthy, lures Lucas Hill to Saint Petersburg. When he arrives in Petersburg and inquires at the hotel where Pyotr is scheduled to stay, however, Pyotr appears to be unavailable.
The police were going to raid the hotel room, according to Raisa, the hotel receptionist, and Pyotr fled while he still had the chance. Hill Pyotr ‘s new address is given to Raisa at the Gorynch Guest House in Mirny.
Meanwhile, Hill puts pressure on Pyotr by reminding him of Boris Volkov’s name. Hill meets with the potential buyer, Boris Volkov, and purchases a few days.
Hill, on the other hand, guarantees Volkov the entire shipment as compensation for the delay. Volkov is a hotshot businessman with mafia ties, and his brother Pavel thinks telling Hill the tale about the Swedes would be intriguing.
Hill is also reminded by Volkov that the South Africans are in town (mainly Vincent). Hill returns to his hotel room later, accesses his cell phone inventory, and sets up a new phone.
He drives to Mirny, a remote settlement in Eastern Siberia , and leaves a message for Pytor . Pyotr has left the guest house and has requested that Hill wait for him.
Hill arrives late; the receptionist hands him the keys and informs him that a man has requested his services.
This is Vincent, who, despite Volkov’s best intentions, appears to be interested in Hill’s life. He wants Hill to think of him as a buddy since he owes him a previous favour.
Meanwhile, while protesting obscenity in a cafe, Hill gets himself into a tangle with Yefrem and his pal. Katya, the cafe owner, comes to get him and brings him to her apartment.
He thanks her by making french toast the next morning. Hill must meet with Pyotr’s brother Andrei, who informs him that Pyotr sold some false gems to former Specnaz member Samsonov and his men.
Meanwhile, Hill spends time with Katya and her nefarious brothers, but where has Pyotr gone?
Lucas Hill ( Keanu Reeves ) is well aware that he has been playing too close to the fire. We don’t know how well Hill knows Pyotr, but he appears uncomfortable in his surroundings.
There are various factors that contribute to his uneasiness. To begin with, he is not in his own nation; instead, he is halfway around the world in a desolate, frigid wasteland. Second, he is involved in a perilous trade – blue gems – that does not appear to be easy to master.
Hill , on the other hand, has a different issue. He is pleasant to everyone, which takes away part of the authority he exudes. Aside from his sudden bursts of enthusiasm and aggressive bantering in Russian, Lucas is mostly silent.
When compared to Howard Ratner from ‘ Uncut Gems ,’ Keanu Reeves has fewer waves than Adam Sandler’s neurotic energy, yet his interpretation is charming.
When Katya offers Lucas the chance to sleep with her, he mulls over the matter. Lucas and Katya have their fair amount of lovemaking sessions, albeit he’s no James Bond, jumping on the bed with every temptation.
Katya chooses to go with the flow because her brothers believe she has had coitus with the American. Lucas makes a shaky video call to his wife, but returns to Katya for comfort. In the kitchen, Hill makes love to Katya .
Keanu Reeves heads to Russia to deal diamonds and kick ass. And he's all out of diamonds #SiberiaMovie pic.twitter.com/s2SsNxpMu4
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) June 8, 2018
The next morning, Hill goes bear hunting with Katya’s brothers, but he could be the bear. Hill and Katya have another bedroom battle later, and Katya wonders why Hill never offers his wife anything.
Vincent persuades Hill to meet, but it is not for the sake of the diamonds. He has a vested interest in Hill, who is becoming overly visible in the transaction.
Hill is at the centre of the drama, while Pyotr hides in the shade with the excuse of bad weather. Vincent is concerned for Hill’s safety and advises him to return to the United States.
Lucas is being pursued by the FSB as well. Lucas Hill returns to the hotel in Petersburg after the filthy fraternal contract with Volkov, where he is met with even more horrific things.
The FSB wants Hill to use Katya as a chip to channel the fake jewels to Volkov. Hill chooses to save Katya and accepts the mission’s perilous nature.
— Only Film Media (@OnlyFilmMedia) June 20, 2018
Some could argue that Hill’s emotions got the best of him, and that he shouldn’t have travelled to Russia in the first place if he couldn’t tolerate the cold.
Hill, on the other hand, has a visceral dislike for Volkov at this time. He’s also grown fond to Katya, particularly since the incident at Volkov’s residence.
As a result, he accepts the FSB’s offer and commits himself to a suicide agreement. He dupes Volkov and his brother at first, but they track him out and shoot him.
This surprising conclusion also demonstrates the dullness of Hill’s non-spy existence living as a spy, giving the novel a Kafkaesque aspect.
Pyotr is the game’s real player, having fooled two people — Hill and Samsonov. Pyotr, it appears, has it coming if he hasn’t already fled the site to avoid the weather.
After receiving a tip about Pyotr, Hill returns to Mirny and discovers Andrei dead in the stable. Samsonov’s guys or Volkov’s thugs may have slain him just as Hill arrived at the area.
The weather becomes a little bleaker after Andrei’s death, and we reach the conclusion of the storey. Hill’s demise is foreshadowed towards the conclusion, but Hill does not go down without a struggle.
Meanwhile, Pyotr is the one who becomes wealthy, and he may keep the genuine diamonds – provided there are no natural diamonds in the equation at all.
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'Welcome To Hell': Life In A Notorious Russian Women's Prison
Russian penitentiaries are loathed and feared by those serving sentences there -- and that goes for the women, too. (file image)
Photo: Vladimir Velengurin (TASS)
From kittens tossed into blazing furnaces to prisoners losing fingers slaving for hours at sewing machines in a rat-infested sweatshop, IK-14 prison for women in Russia’s central region of Mordovia is one of the most dreaded female correctional facilities in the country.
Such is the notoriety of the prison, women condemned to serve there often take extreme measures to avoid it, including slitting their wrists. And Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said the reputation of prison IK-14 was known across Russia.
"As the inmates say, ‘If you haven’t done time in Mordovia, you haven’t done time, " said Tolokonnikova , who herself served prison time at the facility in 2013.
In a letter published in September 2013, Tolokonnikova complained about the slave-labor conditions at the prison, as well as abuse faced by prisoners. She wrote that women were forced to work 16 or 17 hours a day with one day off every eight weeks.
Such was her experience at the prison that Tolokonnikova campaigned for prisoner rights once she was released under an amnesty in December 2013.
According to the latest official data , 557,684 individuals are incarcerated in Russian correctional facilities. Of these, 44,474 are women.
More than six years after Tolokonnikova penned her letter, the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) admitted she was "correct," in the words of FSIN Deputy Director Valery Maksimenko.
On December 24, Maksimenko announced the FSIN had requested that prosecutors open a criminal probe into allegations of slave-labor conditions at the prison in Mordovia. The director of prison IK-14, Yury Kupriyanov, was dismissed, along with other officials, Maksimenko said.
Kupriyanov had forced the prisoners to sew clothing for him, his relatives, friends, and business associates, Maksimenko explained.
Some of the inmates who have served time at IK-14 have told of their experience there to the Volga Desk of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service.
Gelena Alekseyeva, a former deputy minister for investment in Saratov Oblast, was sentenced in 2013 to 3 1/2 years in prison for abetting commercial bribery. Between March 2014 and May 2015, Alekseyeva served part of her sentence at IK-14 in Mordovia.
Alekseyeva said such is the dread of being sent there, that women take extreme measures to avoid it.
"When the girls find out that they’re going to Mordovia, they cut their wrists, do everything possible: get sick, swallow nails, just so they don’t have to go there. Its reputation is known, especially after the letter by Nadia Tolokonnikova," Alekseyeva told RFE/RL.
Alekseyeva was picked to work in the sewing shop, cutting fabric to size.
"The saw cuts the fabric along a chalk line continuously. God forbid, if the saw cuts somewhere else [and not on the chalk line], then all 100 cuts are ruined. I can say that fingers on the saw are chopped off, cut, blood flows. This is definitely unsafe, requiring some training. I was saved by the cons themselves," Alekseyeva explained.
Like others, Alekseyeva said conditions at the facility were downright medieval.
"Mice lived with us. Rats lived with us in the industrial zone. Before you went into the bathroom, you needed to knock -- there were special poles for that. So that the rats would scatter, you understand," Alekseyeva recounted, adding that cats are also kept to hunt the rodents.
As the felines reproduced, however, the prison found a cruel method to keep their numbers down.
"They [the kittens] are collected in a sack and burned in the furnace," Alekseyeva said, explaining the cats are used as a kind of bargaining chip with the prisoners.
"There is nothing more dear to the inmates than these kittens and cats. But they can also be used for punishment. So, if you sewed badly today then we will burn the cats! They don’t punish one or two people -- they punish a whole brigade," Alekseyeva said.
When Veronika Krass entered prison IK-14 in October 2014, a few words scrawled on the wall at the entrance grabbed her attention.
"At the entrance to IK-14 there is a sign: ‘Welcome To Hell.’ When someone enters the colony, there’s a lineup in the yard. Everyone yells, ‘Fresh meat has arrived.’ The inmates react of course to this -- they are afraid," Krass told RFE/RL.
In April 2014, Krass was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty on narcotics and robbery charges. She served part of her term in the Mordovian prison from October 2014 to March 2017. She was 41 years old when she was imprisoned at prison IK-14.
Krass explained that up till the last moment, she had no idea she was headed to prison IK-14.
"After the sentence is handed down everyone is very afraid about ending up in Mordovia. They sit in their cells and nervously wait. In the end, quite unexpectedly in the middle of the night, people are taken out," Krass said. "I was taken at midnight and they told me I should be ready to leave in 40 minutes. As I was led out, I asked where I was going. No one answered me. During the trip no one answers any of your questions."
Like others, Krass complained that the conditions in the sewing shop were unbearable, with daily quotas constantly raised.
Krass says once she complained to prison administrators that she couldn’t keep up with her sewing quota, a mistake she quickly realized.
"They told me if I didn’t sew what I had to -- and it was minus 20 [Celsius] outside -- then I would stand in the ‘spot’ outside. That means, in the evening after work, you cannot return to the barracks."
Arguing with administrators only got Krass thrown in the isolation cell for a few days.
Yelena Federova was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted on a murder charge when she was 20 years old. She served part of that sentence from June 2007 to April 2016 at prison IK-14.
Federova was quickly moved to work in the medical unit. Originally relieved that she had avoided the horrors of the sweatshop, Federova said she witnessed "really horrible things."
"I repeatedly saw beaten women -- young and old. They cried, begging for help. I went to Yury Kupriyanov to put an end to this madness -- end the beatings and uphold the law," Federova recounted.
Ultimately, she turned to independent media and NGOs with the shocking details of what was going on in the prison. A criminal probe was opened but quickly shut after Fedorova refused to give the names of any witnesses.
"They were afraid to open their mouths again, fearing they’d be killed this time," claimed Fedorova.
The fate of one 21-year-old HIV-positive prisoner, Lena, still haunts Fedorova.
"On July 13, 2013 she died in my arms. She was a really young girl, who, despite her diagnosis, could have lived a long and happy life. She had just 40 days to her release. We battled for two hours to save Lena’s life, [while] her heart was still beating," Fedorova said.
"Two days before she died, Lena went to the medical unit staggering, as if she were drunk. She had bruises all over. They beat her because she went to ARV therapy [antiretroviral therapy] and was unable to sew what was demanded of her by the shop leader."
Like the others, Fedorova now hopes that Kupriyanov and others responsible for the treatment of prisoners at prison IK-10, finally face justice.
"I think that Yury Kupriyanov should be punished for all that he did. He destroyed the lives of many while working at the prison," Fedorova said. "I’m not only for him being punished, but others in the prison administration as well. Kupriyanov was not alone."
Vadim Meshcheryakov is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir
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