A prominent Russian historian appeared in court in St. Petersburg in a grisly murder case that has grabbed headlines across the country.
Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old professor at St. Petersburg State University, is the suspect in the death of one of his former students, Anastasia Yeshchenko.
The celebrity academic was pulled out of Moika River, in the heart of the historic city, over the weekend. A backpack he was carrying contained a pair of severed arms and a nonlethal handgun.
Law enforcement officials told the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Yeshchenko's dismembered body was found in Sokolov's apartment. The victim was 24, according to the news agency.
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“I’ll teach you a lesson you’ll never forget!”
He really meant it.
Than off with his head.
*Then
I’m happy he was dis-armed without incident.
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*Wait did they say he was so drunk when disposing the body that he slip and fell in the water himself.*
Morale of the story : dont drink and murder.
Know your limits people!
That pic of those 2 dancing, they look really happy together
@Kimikim Inurface They should have also shown him falling into the water on the CCTV camera footage.
he said he was getting drunk while dismembering that poor girl’s body because it wasn’t easy for him to do that
He jumped into the water because the bag had trapped an air bubble and refused to sink.
@jason4275 I think it happened later because you can’t fall in the water from where he’s standing, there’s a high parapet there. From what I’ve read, he discovered that the bag with the remains stayed floating on the surface, so he had to find a place to actually climb into the water in order to retrieve the bag but slipped.
“one more horrific, shameful crime in Russia could’ve been prevented” so… One murderer is found in Russia and you’re generalising all Russian society? Interesting that Sandy Hook, and every Mass shooting in the USA has been characterised as “tragic”. Considering the sheer numbers, can we condemn America with the same language?
Nope, it just means Russia has just as many horrible and violent and vicious people as the United States does. Welcome to our world.
@Tamara Savage-White right. Yet you can surely tell that the reporter seems to think that Russians in general are somehow party to this crime
@Em Dolokhov my freind met boris johnson once. Boris johnson rugby tackled a kid. This means i am partly responsible for a kid getting rugby tackled. Nice logic isnt it. People will blame anything bad that happens in russia on putin. As if he is personally responsible. Thats like me blaming trump for a random murder in US.
7 arms and legs?
miranda b I thought so too. But he said severed
Schedule an ear examination right away if you can’t tell a very clear and recognizable “r” sound as opposed to an “n.”
@Mulinaster lol i rewatched and yes, i can hear the word ‘severed’ now lol my bad
Out from a Dostoyevsky book
Why is that?
He actually lived in a building next to the old usurer’s house from that book.
@André Bercoff Both committed crimes and were fanatical from Napoleon
People with the most to lose, will do the most to stop that!
Greed is our nature, guilt is our pleasure.
said fredo.
LEGION NA MESTYE?
Ponasenkovbog -_-/
Pomasyata zdes!
Zdesya :3
MAESTRO!!!
Otsasestro, yebestro!
Федор Скварцов pederasto-pedophilo
wtf?!? he utterly destroyed that girl. monster!
He should have drowned like the evil dog he is!!!
Totally right. Just like the Roman Law. An eye for an eye
Oh no, that way he’d have avoided all the public shame. That would be too easy for him. He’s already been stripped of all his academic posts and awards and will now have to live the rest of his life in shame, branded as a murderer – he might actually end his life in the gutter if Russian convicts don’t take care of him in prison.
We need some Black justice down there, sista.
He’s mad.
A movie in the making, sad for the young lady
Deshovki
Сам то кто
1:54 stupid little bugs working on CNN, it should have been EvGenius Ponasenkov, not whatever that is you wrote you obtuse little child. How dare you insult Maestro like that?!
I hope they don’t believe his self defense claim
Russian Psycho !
Ganibal lector
You’ve been caught by your own hand like a DESHOVKA
И почти никто не задумывается над тем, что это – российская интеллигенция, это высшее учебное заведение, культурная столица… В провинциальных вузах еще хуже с моралью, хоть там и нет убийц-психопатов, но знаю кучу преподавателей, которые позорят слово “интеллигент”. На лекциях несущие фашистский и антигуманистический бред, плюющие на образовательные стандарты, про взяточничество даже говорить не приходится. Стыдно за такую страну….