Stop Fornicating Or Be Fired!

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Russia tycoon orders all his employees to find God and get married after fires
A religion-obsessed Russian tycoon has ordered his employees to quickly embrace the Russian Orthodox Church or lose their jobs.

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 6:09PM BST 16 Aug 2010


Vasily Boiko-The Great, who controls a major agricultural holding, has written to his 6,500 employees, ordering those "living in sin" to get married in church within two months or be fired.

The deadline, 14 October, is a Russian Orthodox festival. He has also banned any of his employees or their wives from getting abortions, saying he does not want to work with "killers."

"Such an extreme situation is punishment for the Russian people's sins," he told daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "I need to take extreme measures including looking at the way my employees treat God."

Mr Boiko-The Great added the suffix to his surname by deed poll and said he found God himself after a stint in jail on as yet unproven fraud charges.

His employees have reacted with bemusement to his directive, while government officials have warned the tycoon he risks breaking the country's labour laws.

Mr Boiko-The Great said he was unfazed. "This is a private company and people working here must follow the rules," he said.

[Gob]

My god, they are getting so Americanised in Russia!

[Big RR]

Just proves the old maxim, ifhe's so rich, how come he's not smart?

[Miles]

Hell even the catholic church isn't that strict.

[Big RR]

Indeed, and it's been a long time since a pope appended "the great" to his name as well. This guy is one piece of work.

[dales]

Humility isn't one of his virtues, and I doubt chasity is , either.

[Jarlaxle]

Nor sanity!

[Big RR]

Well that's not in his contract; there is no sanity clause.

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