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THE MOSCOW TIMES1

A customer at a popular Moscow cafe on Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya Ulitsa had a rat fall on his head from a hatch in the ceiling in February.

The cafe management refused to compensate him for moral and physical damage, but the businessman, identified only as Dedyura, won more than 100,000 rubles ($3,000) in compensation in court, Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported. The rat bit and scratched the businessman, and he had to go to the hospital for stitches and rabies and tetanus shots.

Dedyura demanded 500,000 rubles in compensation, but the cafe management ignored his claims and even the court summons. The court also issued the cafe a fine of 53,450 rubles. The Federal Consumer Protection Service issued a warrant to close the cafe after an investigation.

THE MOSCOW TIMES2

A woman survived being struck by the propeller of an Antonov An-24 aircraft with severe injuries at the Krasnoyarsk airport Thursday.

The incident occurred Thursday morning as the plane’s engines were started for a flight to Kodinsk, a representative of the West Siberian Transportation Prosecutor’s Office told RIA-Novosti.

Despite a warning from a technician, the woman did not move away from the plane, and she remained unnoticed by the pilot, who started the engines, representative Natalya Krinitskaya told the news agency.

The woman, employed at the airport as an aircraft cleaner, was hit by the blades and hospitalized with injuries to her head, chest and arms. There were only four crew members on the plane at the time of the incident, with no passengers on board.

Transportation prosecutors have opened an investigation into the incident.