The Affair

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Anastasia expected, her friend Sergei is waiting For You when your flight arrives in St Petersburg airport.

But as he lands to say, texts that, due to unforeseen commitments, work, a friend, instead of shooting her.

So far, So normal.

Later, as Anastasia your house approaches in The Friend 's car, a minibus with blacked-out Windows screeches in your way. Armed men in masks jump out and take away your driver friend.

Anastasia is the led on the back of The Car , you travel in the. The Men start rifling through your stuff in the boat and you will discover a little package full of white powder.

Surrounded by men dressed in black special ops uniforms, female plain clothes detective turns to her: "You are suspected of supplying banned substances. "

The color in Anastasia's seeping into the face quickly.

"you must be mistaken. It's not mine," she says, smiling nervously.

"whose is it? Enough of The Games !", A Man barks.

The Questions continued, until The Man with the package, to reveal open, a small Pink Box .

"And what is it?" he asks.

"No idea!" she replies, her voice breaks.

Suddenly, The Man gets down on his knees, tearing off his mask and shouts out: "Marry me!"

It is Sergei, and it turns out that he is the only one here who actually works in law enforcement. The other works for an "extreme proposal," Service - established part of an industry that in Russia in recent years.

All is well, that ends well: "How can you be angry about this?", said Anastasia

Sergei driver, friend was The Secret - he was afraid, when the Masked Men be able to stop.

Expensive 'treat'

Extreme proposals cost as little as 700 rubles (£8. 70; $10. 50) for a half-hour photo session with a "member of the security forces", to around 60,000 rubles (£745; $900) is a complete security forces.

Sergei's extreme proposal, again, to 30,000 rubles. He had had as an approximation to real law enforcement authorities, colleagues, and asked the people of the Federal Security Service (FSB), but they turned him down - Something he now relieved.

"the people from work to go to break over The Top and Something you can be scary!"

Sergei Rodkin hires security professionals, but is silent Show on the history of the

Spetsnaz (special ops), Creator Sergei Rodkin says, there is no upper limit for The Price , if customers really want to Carried Away .

The 36-year-old businessman says he used to organize the shows for free back in the year 2010 for friends.

"things are gradually getting bigger, and a year later we began to do it for money," he tells the BBC.

The First extreme proposals came in the year 2014. Up to the year 2015, several franchises of Spetsnaz Show was around Russia. Now there are 14 of them - and the competition is also a business.

you may also want to: a preference for realism

among the players are former police offers and ex-military personnel to lend authenticity to the performances. You work part-time, because there is not enough demand for them to your full-time job.

Sergei says that his customers always want the same drug-bust routine.

"you have no imagination! You want All of the special ops, armed, arrest, drugs," he scolds.

A new, very real case involved.

At the time, The Journalist insisted that the drugs were planted to him by the officers involved. He was soon released, after the police dropped the charges against him due to a lack of evidence.

the psychologist Polina Soldatova the look of Spetsnaz says Shows and other extreme commitment are a Testament to The Role of police officers in the Russians " everyday.

"Humor is a way for the society to what is happening with him," she told the BBC.

"These pranks are... a way to accept the fact that the security forces can always be with you. The people need a way to reconcile with this Reality . "

The extreme proposal angered Julia from Ryazan - she threw the bouquet of flowers on her husband-to-be

Anastasia says she was angry with Sergei for a long time but that The Affair was a first shock For You . "It was really scary. Nothing like that ever before happened to me".

Sergei asks you if you know how many years in prison, she would have had to face, the drug bust was real. "Up to 20 years for this amount of drugs," he says.

And in Reality , not everyone the funny side of such extreme proposals looks.

Alexander of Penza, says his would-be bride was reduced to tears when on the receiving end of such "shows". She accused him, tries to give her a Heart Attack .

Julia from Ryazan responded with less polite language, when her husband, an extreme surprise for mark organized their 30th birthday.

you also stole that had given him around The Head with the bouquet of flowers you just.

Spetsnaz Show has also performed for children's birthday

Polina Soldatova, the psychologist, says that the Only People who get to enjoy The Experience , they are in The Position of power. "The would-be laugh fiancées and not smile from the relief that The Men are not real cops," she says.

"There is nothing funny for those who are exposed to stress-and to be grateful for such a creative partner. "

In fact, the BBC has seen videos of "shows", made of regional Spetsnaz Show, as well as affiliates in which people tied up, forced to the ground with his head down, searched, or pressed against the hood of The Car .

Soldatova says that these forms of violence and humiliation, let go of the person, ready to do everything to distance themselves from The Scene , and that includes the acceptance of your partner the proposal.

But Sergei says that in The Five years of its establishment in Moscow is active only in a would-be fiancée has the bottom of your partner to.

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Source of news: bbc.com