The end of the USSR in 1991 was one of the most cataclysmic events in history, with its aftereffects still being felt three ...

A self-styled mystic Vissarion and two aides were sentenced to prison for using psychological pressure to extract money and ...

The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

Sergei Torop, a Russian sect leader claiming to be Jesus reincarnated, received a 12-year prison sentence for harming followers' health and finances. Known as 'Vissarion,' he founded a religious sect ...

Deep in a remote corner of Siberia, a group of masked men swarmed the City of the Sun, a deeply religious settlement in the Krasnoyarsk region.. The Russian security forces had arrived in September ...

A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after ...

Who is Vissarion, Sergey Torop? Sergey Torop was born on January 14, 1961, in Krasnodar, Russia. The self proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus did not start out as the second coming of the Messiah.

Vissarion, who has proclaimed himself a new Christ, leads a mass prayer in the village of Petropavlovka, about 580 km (360 miles) southeast of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk August 17, 2007.