From Russia with Fear

Executions for refusal, torture in pits and basements, and commanders who shoot their own—this episode investigates “obnuleniye” and barrier detachments inside Russia’s forces. Using soldier testimonies, pre-mortem video appeals, and family accounts, we trace how units like the 19th regiment (v/ch 12322) enforce “meat assaults” with gun barrels, cold-water punishment, electric shocks, and cash ext...

A Russian general dies in a drone strike near Krasnohorivka—but the shadow he leaves behind is darker than the battlefield. This episode investigates allegations that Major General Pavel Klimenko’s 5th Brigade ran a network of illegal detention sites in Donetsk—cellars and the Petrovskaya mine—where Russian soldiers were tortured, extorted, and forced into “meat assaults.” We also examine the murd...

A year-long romance in Khabarovsk turned into a hunt. After repeated beatings, Alexandra Kutuzova left her fiancé—only to be stalked, threatened with death, and pursued to new homes and jobs. Despite 15 police complaints , the danger didn’t stop; Alexandra now lives with private security while saving voice notes and videos as evidence. This episode examines the anatomy of stalking, the paper-thin...

In this chilling episode of From Russia with Fear , we uncover the shocking case of two elderly women accused of plotting a contract killing — not out of vengeance or greed for wealth alone, but for the sake of real estate. When 69-year-old Lyalya Elmurzaeva found herself unwilling to share one of her four Moscow apartments with her recently released ex-convict son, she allegedly turned to her lon...

A young couple from Irkutsk buys their dream apartment — only to discover it was the scene of a gruesome murder. Years ago, a mentally ill man tortured and boiled his mother alive inside the same walls. Now, due to forged documents and a broken legal system, the couple loses everything. A true story about horror, fraud, and injustice in modern Russia.

A successful businessman murders his longtime mistress in broad daylight — all to keep his wife from discovering their secret child. In this episode, we explore the brutal killing of Natalia Dracheva by Alexander Katin, a man who chose silence over responsibility, and how Russia's justice system allowed him to consider war over prison.

In the city of Kaluga, a gang of school-aged teens has created a climate of fear. They beat classmates for fun, extort money, vandalize stores, and even attack parents who defend their children. Among them: children of a local official. Complaints to schools and police have gone nowhere—until now. This episode tells the story of a neighborhood terrorized by teenagers, and a justice system too slow...

Across Russia, veterans of the war in Ukraine—many of them pardoned criminals—are returning home and committing horrific crimes. In this episode, we follow the stories of convicted murderers and rapists who were released to fight and came back to kill again. From a hostel murder in St. Petersburg to the strangling of a 7-year-old girl in Perm, to the stabbing of elderly neighbors in Krasnodar Krai...

She asked him to turn down the TV. Instead, he stabbed her to death in front of her four children. This episode tells the story of 24-year-old Elizaveta Ovchinnikova, a mother of four, murdered by her partner and SVO veteran Alexey Malyshenko in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Elizaveta had tried to escape. She had scars from his previous attacks. She had warned her friends. But no one stopped him. Now four ch...

In Sochi, a love story turned into horror. After months of violence and threats, 46-year-old Nikolai Aliyev broke into the apartment of his ex-partner Ksenia and attacked her with a telescopic wrench. He blinded her in one eye, broke her ribs and arm, and left her bleeding beside her 11-year-old son. Despite repeated complaints to police, no action was taken until it was too late. This episode exp...

A shocking court case in Samara. A 17-year-old boy tortured his visually impaired peer for two hours—beating her with a metal pipe, forcing her to drink from a puddle, and setting her hair on fire—while his sister and her 30-year-old fiancé filmed instead of helping. The victim, Dasha, suffered a broken arm, a serious head injury, and permanent hearing loss in one ear. The case moved only after an...

They were called heroes at the front, but back home they became killers. A soldier in Rostov murdered his 14-year-old daughter, stabbed his wife and son, and jumped from a window. In Omsk, a veteran butchered his ex-wife and then escaped punishment by signing a new military contract. In Yakutsk, a Wagner fighter attacked his girlfriend so brutally she lost her child. Across Russia, women and child...

A birthday celebration in Belorechensk ended in horror. Police sergeant Andrey Doroshenko and his young wife Yana invited a new acquaintance to their apartment. Hours later, both were dead—their throats cut and their bodies burned in a fire meant to destroy evidence. The suspect, 29-year-old Dmitry Foshenko, fled the scene and is now the target of a massive manhunt in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Th...