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‘An unprecedented act of mercy by Russia’s Sberbank has led to one woman and the nation celebrating after a Change.org petition to delay a mortgage repayment for the stage 4 cancer patient resulted in the bank forgiving the entire debt.
It is indeed a rare occasion when an ambitious petition achieves things above and beyond its target, but this is exactly what happened to Svetlana Lapina in this David and Goliath story. The stage 4 cancer sufferer was threatened by the financial institution with eviction when it decided to reimburse itself for the 800,000 rubles (almost $12,000) it was owed by taking away a 5-million-ruble apartment.’
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