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Hanged with Hands Bound
Season 2 Episode 7
Municipal lawmaker Vitaly Kapustin is found hanged in a tall tree using a cable attached to his car. The police rule it a suicide, that is until an eyewitness makes a statement saying Kapustin’s hand…
Published on 2 hours ago
An Uphill Battle to the Kremlin
Season 2 Episode 6
We’re halfway through season 2, so this episode is an interlude of sorts. As you can probably imagine, the work that goes into this project is massive. We’re fighting an uphill battle against Kremlin…
Published on 1 week ago
Hanged in a Secret Nuclear City
Season 2 Episode 5
Senior accountant Evgeny Postrigan hangs himself in the garage of his home in the closed city of Zheleznogorsk. This is a place shrouded in secrecy, where weapons grade plutonium and military satelli…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Kaliningrad’s Decapitated Entrepreneur
Season 2 Episode 4
The dead body of Alexey Sinitsyn is laid out under a bridge in Russia’s European exclave, Kaliningrad. It is missing one very vital component—the head. This local CEO has somehow ended up decapitated…
Published on 3 weeks ago
The Rocket Scientist's Poison Mushroom
Season 2 Episode 3
Russian rocket scientist Vitaly Melnikov has been picking wild mushrooms his whole life. Somehow though, at 77-years-old, he picks a bad one and eats it up. This kills him. His body shuts down and he…
Published on 4 weeks ago
The Kursk Raid Suicide
Season 2 Episode 2
Russian oligarch Roman Starovoyt is having a very bad day. He’s the Minister of Transport, a prestigious position in Putin’s regime. Well, he was the Minister of Transport. Starovoyt has just been fi…
Published on 1 month ago
The Siberian Heart Attack
Season 2 Episode 1
Deep in the Siberian peninsula, a corrupt politician falls out of the window of his home and hits the ground hard. Eyewitnesses describe the scene, explaining how he plummeted to the concrete and die…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2
Season 2
Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Introducing: Away Days Podcast - No Rules on the Riviera
Hi, Sad Oligarch fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly.
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of so…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Introducing: Away Days Podcast - A Cold Day for Violence
Hi, Sad Oligarch fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly.
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of so…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago