Good evening Arkheologorodok, this is Lara Kiseleva with Orbita News. Here is this weeks news round up.
The city is still reeling from the bombing of Gastev, Elektrichsky, Zhdanov, and Glory of Industry Stations during the morning rush hour last week. Officials from D.I. Dankovskii Hospital mark the death toll at 421, but many people are still unaccounted for. In a video release, a jihadist organization calling itself the Bektashi-Wahabist Union has taken credit for the attack, citing it as a retaliation for the Counter-Terrorism and Anti-Extremism Operation in Abattoir Town. Governor Yevseyev and Commissioner Nikitan have announced that the man referring to himself as the Mursid Shangdi is now public enemy #1 and that every effort will be bent to his capture and the destruction of the Bektashi-Wahabist Union.
Governor Yevseyev personally reopened the metro at a ceremony at Zhdanov Station, thanking the NOVOST Group for its donation of several high-end metro trains and announced a new effort to modernize and upgrade all aspects of public transit in Arkheologorodok. Governor Yevseyev also announced an overhauled security force for the metro, introducing Amerhan Ramazanov of Premier Security Systems as the new acting head of Metro Security.
Critics worry that this move heralds the privatization of the metro, citing that both the donated trains and the new security guards are both from companies held by the NOVOST Group. The head of the Committee for Transit wrote a scathing resignation letter and announced his departure from the incumbent Refurbishment Party and his joining of the new Faith & Works Party. Although non official statement has been released by the City Militsiya, Commissioner Nikitan was notably not present at the re-opening ceremony.
A special midnight mass was held by the Metropolitan Grigori the First at the Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration on Sunday, where he made a joint statement with Rebbe Isiah Katzmann, Mullah Hamzat Kadyrhov, and Khenpo Lobsang about creating a "bulwark of faith against those that would despoil it in the name of violence" before announcing a coordinated relief fund organized through th Saburov Faith Foundation. Details on how to apply for aide can be found on the Saburov Faith Foundation's website or at participating churches, mosques, temples, or Arkheologorodok's only Synagogue.
In other news, world famous Canadian benzodiazepine addict and transphobe Dr Peter Jordanson has arrived in Arkheologorodok by invitation of Governor Yevseyev to receive cutting edge treatment for his condition. The Governor personally welcomed Dr. Jordanson at the Central Train Station, praising him as one of the world's leading intellects. Although medical tourism has been a consistent presence in Arkheologorodok for years, this will be the most high profile case, with the city's medical community hoping to see an increase in foreign patients in the coming years.
Finally, the weekend forecast indicates a continuation of the recent heatwave into the middle of next week. The City Utilities warn of increased stress on the city's electrical grid, and would like to remind citizens that breaking open fire-hydrants is illegal. The NOVOST Group has set up several cooling stations and the city government are offering vouchers to citizens to buy air conditioning units at reduced prices. To apply, go online to HotWar.ark
And that was this week's news round up, brought to you George Carlin's Hard R History Podcast. For Orbita News, this is Lara Kiseleva, reminding you to stay strong, Arkheologorodok Strong.
Off Record
Gavril: With the help of Nina Kievna and your intelligencer Never-False Dmitri, you've been able to figure out who owns the land over the Treaty Grotto. The site is a former orphanage that was bought out and refurbished by the current Head of the Committee for Education, Ratimir Ulyana Shulyov. Word is that he was raised in that orphanage and he made it his home after coming back from Russia where he made a fortune. The guys he's got guarding this fortified orphanage are from a Russian merc outfit called Debussey and they do not fuck around. Dmitri is pretty sure Ratimir knows what's under the place, but he didn't know it had connections to the Underground until recently.
Cheech: You've done some digging and gotten into a few weird parts of youtube, but you've found out not only are there strong claims that the dissolution of the USSR was illegal, there are some weirdos who hold the position that it still exists. Arkheologorodok is home to a few, most notable is Sascha Pavelovich Kirov, whose youtube channel, Soviet Person, is dedicated to videos of him refusing to pay parking tickets from "illegitimate authorities." He's recognized as head of the Steppe Oblast by the Soviet "government" in Chelyabinsk and also runs a small print shop from which he issues Soviet passports. If anyone is going to have legal authority with those fairies, it's him.
Semenov: The recovery of the Lama Kun Lan's mummified corpse from the Thanotologists impressed the Red Ordo immensely, and Professor Nurseyev has gone from a critic to one of your most vocal advocates. With the Pharmacology Department Chair Stesha Levkina placated, you almost have enough support to overcome Professor Sevostyanov and the Cosmist's push to get you dismissed. If you were to get Professor Tikhon Yablonev onside, your position would be secured.
Ossendowski also mentioned that a small tremor shook the apartment over the entrance to the Underground in the Silent Homes. No real structural damage, and the dig site is intact, but apparently the residents are now afraid to go into the bunker to the north they've been using as a trash dump.
Spartak: The raid on the Gay Nazi's stash house was an utter success. Zhou is working with the Neo-Nazbols to move all the meth, though you'll have to keep an eye on him considering his drug preferences. He thinks you could make some serious inroads with the Gopniks with all this ice.
Hankov says moving supplies to and from the VARANIL labs has gotten harder with the new rent-a-cops in Gastev station, but he's more worried about the Krasnaya Zvezda. They haven't jumped him, but they've definitely been surveilling him and they definitely know where the entrance to VARANIL is now. What they plan to do is a mystery to him.
Petra Borodina has congratulated you on your most recently gathered intel on the Red Ordo and looks forward to what you gather on the Materialists
Jobs
The Materialists are looking to hire someone trustworthy to go into The Kennel and get some schematics
The activists at CounterDogma have a big prank cooked up that will humiliate Yevseyev and they're willing to give away one of their enchanted artworks to anyone who can help them pull it off.
Vernisa left a message, she'll pay $100 for every NOVOST cooling station you sabotage, plus $1000 to plant a device at the power sub-station and making it look like NOVOST did it.
Some of the Excavators of the Underground Earth are working on a plan to get past the chamber full of nerve gas in the Conjuration & Thaumaturgical Research Lab
The Vermin King is offering gold for the treaty, and the Queen of Blooms is offering a magical boon.
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