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Nikolai Ogolobyak, kills and eats teenagers in the name of Satan

In short On the night of 28-29 June 2008, in Yaroslavl, Russia, a group of 17- to 19-year-olds who called

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In short Tamara Samsonova, born in 1947, was arrested in St Petersburg in July 2015 for the murder of her

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In short In 2017 media around the world reported on Blue Whale, an alleged “game” born on Russian social networks

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In short Darya Saltykova (1730-1801), a Russian noblewoman widowed in 1755, tortured and killed dozens of serfs on her estate

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In short In July 2015 in Voronezh, Russia, a 23-year-old punk musician, Aleksandr U., killed and beheaded his girlfriend Viktoria

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In short Alexander Pichushkin, the “chessboard killer”, killed at least 49 people between 1992 and 2006 in Moscow’s Bittsa Park,

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In short Sergei Ryakhovsky (1962-2007), known as the Balashikha Ripper or “the Hippopotamus” because of his size, killed at least

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In short Anatoly Slivko (1938-1989) ran a youth club for boys in Nevinnomyssk, in southern Russia. For over twenty years,

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In short In May 1933 about 6,000 deportees, mostly city dwellers from Moscow and Leningrad arrested for lacking internal passports,

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In short Who: Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin, born 1 September 1966 in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod. Who he was: a linguist,

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In short Who: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Pokrovskoye, 21 January 1869 – Saint Petersburg, 30 December 1916). Why he is famous:

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