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On August 18, at about 16 hours, two young people drove up to the playground in the village of Sopka of the Vyborg District of the Leningrad Region. Oleg and Natalya, a married couple, work in a local farm. They have two dogs: dachshund and shelti. When Natalya began to call a Ryzhik, no one assumed that she was plotting the murder.
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- I do not understand the breeds of dogs very well, but most likely the redhead was Akita. He was opened by the former farm workers, and when they left, they quit. The dog was very friendly, constantly played with the children, did not attack anyone, did not bother anyone. We fed him, vaccinations - in general, he was a favorite.
The redhead did not fit the call of Natalia. And then her husband, Oleg, ran to the dog, threw a barbed wire on her neck, picked up the poor man with a hook to suspend meat carcasses and pulled up to the tractor's bucket. And he left, not paying attention to the cries of women and the crying of children.
A resident of the village Alevtina Viktorovna:
- We immediately called the police. They arrived a few hours later. By then, the redhead had already managed to bury. But then we found exactly where. I personally called the deputy chief of the Roshchinsky police and asked to draw up documents for the exhumation and referral to the forensa of the dog’s body. We actually handed them to them on a saucer: here is the body, here are witnesses who will not refuse their testimonies, here are the perpetrators. And they seemed to spit, they didn’t even arise a matter.

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Akita Inu is the largest breed of Japanese spitz-shaped dogs. The Japanese more often call them Matagi Ken, which translates as “a dog is a hunter on a large beast”, or simply “bearish”. It was this breed that was the famous Hachiko, who came to the railway station for 9 years in anticipation of the deceased owner. On the day of the death of Khatico, who became a symbol of love and devotion, mourning was declared in Japan, and a monument at the Sibuya station was erected to the dog. Near the monument, lovers are appointed and newlyweds are photographed.
According to the Novaya Press Service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as of August 24, that is, 6 days after the murder of Ryzhik, the issue of initiating a criminal case under Article 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of animals, up to 6 years in prison) has not yet been resolved.
Retired lieutenant colonel, former investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Natalya Turapina:
-The 245th article is investigated precisely by the police consequence. Personally, I would kill dogs and cats, without trial and investigation, would have broken something unnecessary. But if you act according to the law, then pitfalls are always found.
It only filled a couple of pieces of paper in the cinema, I interrogated the witnesses once - and transferred the case to the court. In fact, witnesses often have to interview several times, appoint a bunch of examinations, consolidate the readings at the scene. And often witnesses begin to regret that they testified, and do not come to repeated interrogations. They thought that all one conversation would end, and they continue to call them, and many do not like it. The same situation with children-seekers. They cannot be interviewed without adults, and the children are sometimes in their own testimony. We have to clarify, all this takes time, which adults do not want to spend at all in the police.
The press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg Novaya reported that from 2021 to 2023, 11 criminal cases were received on charges of committing a crime under Article 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. 10 sentences have already been issued. In two cases, the accused received real terms of imprisonment, correctional labor was assigned to three, two more - fines were issued, twice the parties came to a world agreement on their own, and in one case, compulsory treatment was prescribed in a psychiatric clinic. For a multimillion -dollar city, this is not enough. In just an hour, I found 34 messages about the murder of animals in St. Petersburg in 2023 on social networks.
Retired lieutenant colonel, former investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Natalya Turapina:
- A lot depends on the investigator. If the employee himself is a dog man or a feline, then he will most likely try to bring the case to trial. But more often it happens that investigators do not see a particular problem in the fact that they killed a puppy or kitten. Not a person, why strain and tear the veins? And very often the culprits are children who have not reached criminal liability. I had a case when the kids for the sake of interest poured glue in the mouth and looked joyfully as the poor dog painfully dies. I then got these sadists to register with a psychiatrist, but I didn’t even want to remember what it was worth it.
Psychiatrist Irina Knyazeva:
- There are several definitions of sadism in psychiatry. There is sexual sadism when a person cannot get satisfaction without causing suffering to the partner. There is also moral or psychological sadism (psi-Sadism), when a person likes to humiliate another, not physically, but morally. In a broader interpretation, a sadist is a person who enjoys humiliation and suffering of other people. The murder of animals at a young age in most cases leads to the manifestations of sadism in adulthood. Sometimes serial killers grow from young tormentors of cats and dogs. Not always, but in the biographies of many maniacs there is a fact that in childhood they tormented animals. In any case, if a child 10-12 years old does not understand that it is impossible to kill a defenseless creature, it means that he is clearly not all right with the psyche.

While the police are deciding whether to initiate a criminal case, the situation is heating up in the village of Sopka. Other farm workers spoke in defense of Natalia and Oleg. I was a witness to the conversation between supporters of the punishment of the dog killers and their defenders.
-Why are you so enraged because of the dog? - A man of about forty -five is sincerely surprised. - An animal - it is an animal. You do not raise a screech when you eat sausage, but she also once ran and grunted. I tried the dog at one time, so it’s quite edible meat.

- And did not eat a man? - interrupts the resident of the village. - They say it looks like a pork. Especially if a child. And what, it’s quite a normal topic: he gave birth to himself, he himself ate ...
Not finding what to answer, the defender of the murderers is trying to cross the hand -to -hand, but women are distinguished by men. As Alevtina Viktorovna said, until it reached a frank scam, but if the police in the near future decide something, anything can happen.
It was not possible to talk with Oleg or Natalia. But other employees characterize them exclusively positively, insisting on the fact that once they killed, it means that there was a reason. With difficulty, but this very reason was found out.
It turned out that the married couple is engaged in breeding thoroughbred dogs. For example, dachshund puppies with a genealogy cost from 15 thousand rubles, shelti puppies - from 40 thousand. Some time ago, Oleg and Natalia, Techka began. While the owners were looking for the right (suitable breed, age and genealogy) male, the dog itself found a partner. It turned out to be a saffron.
Of course, the puppies from such love will be clearly not purebred, so the owners of the shell decided to intervene. But instead of monitoring your own dog, we recouped on a redhead.
The residents of the hills were dissatisfied with the slow of the police on social networks a post about Ryzhik calling to give the incident. The publicity turned out, but the farm workers did not like it.
A resident of the village Alevtina Viktorovna:
- Usually for the weekend, grandchildren and great -grandchildren are brought to us. And last weekend many parents of children did not bring to the village. They fear that something bad can happen. We do not know who the owners of the farm are hired there. Yes, and they themselves are unlikely to find out the summers of their employees. So among them there may be criminals. Previously, everything seemed to be normal, and after we placed the post, they got angry. And what will come to mind tomorrow, alone God knows. But we do not intend to retreat.