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From Russia with Fear
From Russia with fear - a podcast about the most resonant crimes in modern Russia. A gang of satanic cannibals from Yaroslavl, a cannibal from Sakhalin, the Skopinsky maniac and his new crimes after his release, how the trial of the flayer in the case of Vera Pletneva ended. Our journalists will also talk about repeat offenders who were recruited for a special operation, fought at the front, received a pardon and committed new crimes in their hometowns. Residents across the country are…
Episodes
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Four Murders and Two Pardons: The Butcher from Suntar
In Yakutia, a man twice convicted of murder and twice pardoned after joining the war has been detained again — now suspected of a fourth killing. Viktor…
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He Took the Wrong Hostage: SVO Veteran Kills Innocent Mother in Irkutsk
On January 28, a former SVO serviceman in Irkutsk stormed into a charity foundation looking for his estranged wife. When he could not find her, he grabbed a…
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Revenge on the Farm: Igor Zykov Sentenced to 23 Years for the Murder of 17-Year-Old Milena Sheveleva
In November 2024, a quiet farming community in the Krasnoyarsk region was shaken by a brutal crime. Former farm worker Igor Zykov, fired for negligence…
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A Guardian of Horror: Ten Years of Abuse Behind Closed Doors
In the Moscow region, a foster guardian who received public praise and state awards is now on trial for allegedly abusing disabled children for ten years…
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Student Opens Fire at Technical College in Anapa — Sixth School Attack This Year
A 17-year-old student opened fire at the Anapa Industrial Technical College, killing a security guard and injuring others. The teenager had posted warnings…
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Shocking New Details in the Tragic Murder of 9-Year-Old Pasha by Pedophile
Last week, the heartbreaking and shocking murder of 9-year-old Pasha from Saint Petersburg left the community devastated. The young boy became the victim of a…
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SVO Veteran Sentenced to Three Years for Attempting to Kidnap Girl in Moscow Region
A former Special Military Operation (SVO) veteran, Vitaliy Manannikov, was sentenced to three years for attempting to kidnap a girl in the Moscow region…
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Ex-Wagner Fighters Behind a Double Murder: A Gunfight on Moscow’s Rublyovka Highway
A dramatic police shootout on Moscow’s elite Rublyovka Highway exposed a disturbing reality behind Russia’s war-time pardons. Two former Wagner mercenaries —…
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Declared Insane: The Sheremetyevo Airport Attack on a Two-Year-Old Child
A shocking case from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport has ended with an unexpected legal outcome. Vladimir Vitkov, who violently attacked a two-year-old child and…
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Life Sentence for the Murder of a 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl: A Case That Shocked the Tver Region and Raised Questions About Early Releases and Public Safety
A Russian court has sentenced Alexander Sergeev to life imprisonment for the murder of 13-year-old schoolgirl Violetta in the Tver region. The crime, committed…
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Missing Child Found Dead: A Tragic Case from the Leningrad Region
The disappearance of a nine-year-old boy in Saint Petersburg triggered a massive search involving hundreds of volunteers and police officers. Days later, the…
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rom the Front to the Home: When SVO Veterans Kill and Rape Children
In this episode, we talk about one of the darkest consequences of Russia’s war: violence against children committed by former fighters and pardoned convicts…
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A Pack of Dogs Killed a 9-Year-Old Girl in Broad Daylight
A shocking tragedy in Stavropol. A nine-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pack of dogs near her home. The animals had long roamed the neighborhood, fed…
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Killed His Lover, Stabbed Her Neighbor, Then Jumped From the 13th Floor
A brutal crime in the Moscow region ends with murder, a heroic act, and suicide. A man kills his former lover in front of her child, brutally stabs a neighbor…
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Mother Kills Her 5-Year-Old Son “So He Would Go to Heaven”
In Moscow, 46-year-old Alexandra Shalina strangled her five-year-old son with a belt and drowned him in a bathtub. She later told investigators she wanted to…
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Acid Attack Ordered by Ex-Husband: A Mother of Four Targeted for Revenge
In Yekaterinburg, a mother of four survived a brutal acid attack that investigators say was ordered by her former husband. The assault left her with severe…
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Man Who Broke a Two-Year-Old’s Spine at Sheremetyevo Has His Arrest Extended
A shocking case from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. A drug-intoxicated man violently attacked a two-year-old child in the baggage claim area, throwing the boy…
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Shot Out of Hatred: A Neighbor’s Obsession Ends in the Murder of a Schoolgirl
A long-running conflict between neighbors in a quiet apartment building ended in an unthinkable crime. In the Komi Republic, 37-year-old Alexey Levkovsky shot…
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Killed with a Crowbar: Murder, Robbery, and Necrophilia in Chelyabinsk
A horrifying crime in Chelyabinsk shocked even seasoned investigators. Recently released repeat offender Oleg Pelenev beat 54-year-old funeral business owner…
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Returned From War: How SVO Veterans Turn Violence on Their Families
A Russian SVO veteran from Volgograd beat his own grandmother to death with a wooden chair — and received only seven years in prison. The court treated his…
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How SVO Participants Kill and Terrorize Russians
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we investigate a series of brutal crimes committed by participants of Russia’s so-called “special military operation”…
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He Threw His Wife and Toddler From the 16th Floor — Then Went to War
Alexander Lipatov murdered his own family in Moscow, throwing his two-year-old son and his wife from a 16th-floor window. Both died instantly. Diagnosed with…
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The Monino Acid Maniac: Insane in Court, Sane About Money
An acid attacker from the Moscow region, officially declared criminally insane, is trying to reduce the compensation he must pay to his victim by seven times…
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Boiling Water Death: How Negligence Killed a Pensioner
An elderly man in Obninsk died after being scalded by boiling water in his own shower. Instead of warm water, a lethal stream poured from the tap, leaving him…
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Mass Death of Newborns in a Novokuznetsk Maternity Hospital
At least eleven infant deaths are now linked to Maternity Hospital No. 1 in Novokuznetsk. Nine newborns died within just a few days during the January…
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Mother Starved Her Baby to Death and Threw the Body in the Trash
A horrifying true crime case from Russia’s Vladimir region. A 19-year-old woman, Veronika Zhukova, starved her one-year-old son to death by leaving him alone…
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War as an Excuse: How SVO Veterans Kill and Maim Russians at Home
After returning from the front, Russian SVO veterans are increasingly turning their violence against civilians. Based on open-source data and court documents…
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Hammer Murder Over Child’s Noise — Killer Escapes Prison by Going to War
A neighbor in the Moscow region brutally murdered a young mother and her six-year-old son with a hammer after years of arguments over a noisy child. Facing a…
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SVO Veterans Kill Civilians: Violence Is Spreading Beyond Russia
Crimes committed by Russian SVO veterans are no longer confined to Russia. From an armed threat in Minsk to murders, rapes, and attacks on families in…
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Former Police Officer Strangles and Burns His Lover — A Murder Without Punishment
A former Russian police officer, Yevgeny Rodionov, was sentenced in Petrozavodsk for the brutal murder of Moscow lawyer Irina Ivachyova. After an evening of…
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Russian Blogger Dies After Illegal Buttock Injections by Unlicensed Cosmetologist
Popular blogger Yulia Burtseva, who lived in Italy, died in Moscow after undergoing injectable buttock augmentation at a private clinic. The procedure was…
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The Bodorodsk Maniac Exposed: His Son Led Investigators to the Victims’ Bodies
The bodies of two young women murdered by the so-called Bodorodsk maniac have been found near Noginsk — thanks to testimony from his nine-year-old son…
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SVO “Heroes” Return From the Front and Terrorize Russians
Convicted criminals sent to war are returning home — and unleashing violence on civilians. Torture, rape, murder, and impunity follow the SVO veterans back to…
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Larisa Dolina Evicted from Elite Moscow Apartment After Supreme Court Ruling
Famous Russian singer Larisa Dolina is being forcibly evicted from a luxury five-room apartment in Moscow’s prestigious Khamovniki district. After a…
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Husbands Kill Their Wives — and Escape Prison by Going to War
Two brutal domestic murders in Russia expose a disturbing pattern. In Kazan, Dinara Mingaliev strangled his wife and nearly killed their three-year-old son…
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SVO Veterans Above the Law: Murder, Drunk Driving, and Total Impunity
Former and active participants of Russia’s so-called Special Military Operation are repeatedly escaping real punishment for brutal crimes. In this episode, we…
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Life Sentence for a Soldier Who Executed a Mother of Four in Kursk Region
A Russian military court has sentenced contract soldier Dmitry Stenkin to life in prison for the murder of 41-year-old Olesya Larina, a mother of four, and the…
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Parents from Hell: A 12-Year-Old Escapes Months of Torture
In Russia’s Kemerovo region, a 12-year-old boy escapes from his own home after months of brutal abuse by his mother and her partner. With broken legs…
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The Death of the Perm Cannibal: How a Convicted Killer Lived Free After Prison
Mikhail Malyshev, known as the “Perm cannibal,” has died at the age of 65. Convicted of murder and acts that shocked even veteran investigators, Malyshev…
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Teenage Gang Terrorizes an Entire Neighborhood in Russia
In the Russian city of Kaluga, an entire neighborhood is living in fear — not because of organized crime, but because of schoolchildren. A gang of teenagers…
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Shot in Borzya: The Deserter Hunter Who Tortured Families and Was Killed in Broad Daylight
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we go to the small town of Borzya in Zabaykalsky Krai, where 34-year-old Konstantin Ektov was shot dead in the…
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Father Tortures 10-Year-Old Son, Burns Him Alive
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the horrifying story of 51-year-old Alexey Isakov from Smolensk, who tortured his 10-year-old son, cut off…
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Mother Axes Three Children to Death in Krasnoyarsk Krai — Fourth Survives by Chance
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we examine one of the most horrifying family tragedies in recent Russian history. In the town of Kansk, 29-year-old…
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SVO Returnees Killed or Maimed 1,000+ Russians
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we look at court decisions analyzed by investigative journalists showing that SVO participants have killed or…
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Brutal Husband Stabs Wife and Her Partner
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the chilling story of Kirill Cheplygin from Krasnoyarsk Krai, who brutally murdered his wife and her new…
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Two Skull Surgeries, Memory Loss, and Loss of Speech: Famous Model Beaten by Her Boyfriend
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the shocking story of 33-year-old model Angelika Tartanova, who was found in critical condition in Moscow…
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Stabbed His Wife, Skinned Her Corpse, Then Went to the War Zone
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we follow three brutal killers who all avoided real punishment the same way — by signing a military contract and…
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Neighbor Beat a Mother and Her Six-Year-Old Child to Death with a Hammer Over Apartment Noise
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the horrifying story of a noise complaint that turned into a double murder. In the Moscow suburb of…
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A Migrant Mother Threatens to Kill Her Daughter’s Teacher Over a Bad Grade
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we look at the story of Lilit Mstoyan, a hyper-aggressive migrant mother in Yaroslavl who has spent years attacking…
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SVO Veteran Terrorizes Vladivostok Apartment Building
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we expose how Roman, a Special Military Operation veteran, turned a Vladivostok apartment building into a place of…
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A 14-Year-Old Girl Killed Her Mother With Her Boyfriend
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we investigate the chilling case of a 14-year-old girl and her 16-year-old boyfriend who murdered her mother in the…
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A participant in the Special Military Operation stabbed a child repeatedly and avoided prison
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the story of Anton Anisimov, an SVO veteran who stabbed an 11-year-old boy and avoided prison after an…
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The Krasnodar Poisoner: Death at the Bread Factory
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we dive into the chilling case of Elena Belashova, a warehouse clerk at a Krasnodar bread factory who turned a…
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Torture Rehab in the Moscow Region: Children Starved, Raped, and Driven into a Coma
A network of underground rehabilitation centers has been exposed in the Moscow region, where children were tormented, starved, and sexually abused under the…
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Daughter Stabs Mother After Social-Media Ban
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we investigate the chilling case of a 13-year-old St. Petersburg schoolgirl who reenacted a violent videogame…
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Shot the Conscript, Went to War, Case Closed
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we follow the story of 19-year-old conscript Artyom Antonov, shot in the head at a training ground in Primorye — and…
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Orphanage Director Raped Orphans for 15 Years
The shocking story of the Chernetsky boarding school: For 15 years, Alexander Tsymbalyuk turned orphaned pupils with developmental disabilities into sex…
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Participants in the “special military operation,” former convicts, tortured their acquaintance to death
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we tell the story of 22-year-old Vadim Vashchenko from Lermontov, who was tortured to death by two ex-convicts…
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The Bogorodsky Maniac Hunted for Nannies: How a Father Turned His Child Into Bait
In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we investigate the terrifying case of Dmitry Artamoshin — a Moscow Oblast man who lured young nannies to his home…
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A mother strangled her four-month-old daughter and hid her body in the sofa
After weeks of blissful new motherhood, a 28-year-old Petersburg woman murdered her four-month-old daughter under the influence of drugs and hid the infant’s…