“Citizens, if they have the money, are even sometimes promised elevation to a new level of evolution,” MP Tatyana Yakovleva told the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper. “Only last year in Moscow 300,000 people turned to the services of wizards and healers according to the Interior Ministry.” Cancer specialists complain that many of the patients they see have already spent their life savings and wasted precious time on trying to cure the disease with a witch or a wizard. When the money runs out, they say the mystic informs the unfortunate patient that it is “God’s will” and tells them there is nothing more that he or she can do.