But lately, it has seemed to some residents to be ill fated. An
Aeroflot plane from Moscow crashed on the outskirts of Perm in 2008 as
it was landing, killing 88 people. In October, a video of an out-of-
control bus ramming into numerous cars in Perm circulated widely on
the Internet.
Last month, the Perm police arrested three homeless men and charged
them with killing another man, eating part of him and trying to sell
the remainder to a restaurant