Professor suspected in grisly death of former student in Russia

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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47 comments

    1. Morale of the story : dont drink and murder.

      Know your limits people!

      That pic of those 2 dancing, they look really happy together

    2. he said he was getting drunk while dismembering that poor girl’s body because it wasn’t easy for him to do that

    3. @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.

  1. “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?

    1. Nope, it just means Russia has just as many horrible and violent and vicious people as the United States does. Welcome to our world.

    2. @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

    3. @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.

    1. Schedule an ear examination right away if you can’t tell a very clear and recognizable “r” sound as opposed to an “n.”

    1. 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.

  2. 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?!

  3. 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….

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