Russia probes reports Spanish king shot drunk bear

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian region has ordered an inquiry into a

report that hunt organizers, keen to make the King of Spain's chances

of killing a bear easier, provided a tame one drunk on vodka, a

regional spokesman said Thursday.

 

" The governor has ordered a working group set up...to check the

facts published in local press about the killing of the bear, " said a

spokesman for Vyacheslav Pozgalev, governor of the northwestern

Vologda region.

 

National paper Kommersant carried a letter from Vologda's deputy

chief of regional hunting resources management, Sergei Starostin,

which accuses hunt organizers of plying a captive bear

named " Mitrofan " with vodka-drenched honey and then forcing him from

a cage to be shot by Spain's King Juan Carlos

 

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" His majesty Juan Carlos killed Mitrofan with a single shot, "

Starostin wrote in his letter.

 

Russian hunt organizers are not complete strangers to such tactics.

Keen hunter and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had trouble with

his aim in his later years. Some of the animals he liked to stalk

were either tied to trees or plied with booze.

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>Oct 22, 2006 11:41 PM

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> Russia probes reports Spanish king shot drunk bear

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>MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian region has ordered an inquiry into a

>report that hunt organizers, keen to make the King of Spain's chances

>of killing a bear easier, provided a tame one drunk on vodka, a

>regional spokesman said Thursday.

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> " The governor has ordered a working group set up...to check the

>facts published in local press about the killing of the bear, " said a

>spokesman for Vyacheslav Pozgalev, governor of the northwestern

>Vologda region.

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>National paper Kommersant carried a letter from Vologda's deputy

>chief of regional hunting resources management, Sergei Starostin,

>which accuses hunt organizers of plying a captive bear

>named " Mitrofan " with vodka-drenched honey and then forcing him from

>a cage to be shot by Spain's King Juan Carlos

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>I.

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> " His majesty Juan Carlos killed Mitrofan with a single shot, "

>Starostin wrote in his letter.

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>Russian hunt organizers are not complete strangers to such tactics.

>Keen hunter and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had trouble with

>his aim in his later years. Some of the animals he liked to stalk

>were either tied to trees or plied with booze.

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