Russian cult members waiting for the end of the world are forced out of their cave.
The remaining 14 doomsday cult members holed up in a southern Russian cave are likely to give up their wait for the end of the world and leave the cave Wednesday, officials say.
A doomsday cult leader whose followers are barricaded inside a cave in southern Russia will be taken to the site in an attempt to secure the release of several children, according to a government official.
Predicting the end of the world, a suicidal Russian Christian sect is holed up in a cave. CNN's Matthew Chance reports
Members of a doomsday cult are refusing to leave their hideout in a cave in southern Russia in spite of intervention from their leader, a government official said Friday, adding pressure to a stand-off with the authorities that one side believes will only end with the apocalypse.