Our latest video segment is fished out of one Russia's most ridiculous tv-programs, Heartfelt Confessions. Meet Mr Shahov - prophet, alien worshipper, poet, family man. We've subtitled his rants/teachings for your viewing pleasure.

The weekly program markets itself as a "detective documentary" of the "mysterious" and "sensational," but is really more of a jumble of loosely related aggregations of pulp-journalism, exploiting the poor and confused on the fringes of contemporary society... In a word, infauxtainment.

Shahov is featured in the "MUTANT" episode, which in its entirety also features:

a family of four-fingered old ladies

the "recent trend" of animal birth defects

local experts warning against eating of said animals, lest you grow a third leg yourself

a village-dwelling, bankrupted ex-oligarph yelling about the evils of artificial cow insemination

Also: a chicken that exclusively begats three-legged chicks, a plague of super slugs, hermaphrodite goat fondling, a dog without a tail, and an unlicensed use of Hitchcock's Birds clips. The wisdom culled from all this is in the epilogue: "Physical deviations are not as serious as spiritual ones. It's not that hard to be born human. It's much harder to live as one." Making good TV isn't a piece of cake either, apparently. Until then, enjoy the run-off.