X-Message-Number: 22536 From: "John Bull" <> Subject: If all else fails---cryonics storage without bureaucratic hassle! Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:03:12 -0400 In correspondence with a young Russian, Danila Medvedev for an upcoming Immortalist article, he included this: "This one is semi-serious, but anyway: Russian biologist Sergey Bodrov declared a small territory in Antarctica an independent state. The name of the new country is "Immortia" meaning "land of immortals". Bodrov found out that some unclaimed territories (lay) near the South Pole and claimed them in accordance with the international law. Sergey Bodrov proclaimed himself a Prince of Immortia and has already developed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of Immortia. The main principle of the Consitution is life extention by any means possible, including cloning that is allowed in Immortia. This has been covered by some newspapers and Russian TV." The original news item from NTV: (In Russian with Robert Ettinger's picture) http://www.ntv.ru/news/index.jsp?nid=26956 Immortia's Home page in English http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/immortia/1024X768/indexe.html John Bull www.cryonics.org name="winmail.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING BASE64 ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22536