Russia’s Growing Culture of Everyday Violence

A teenage argument in Saint Petersburg turns into a near-fatal stabbing after a 15-year-old boy is attacked 25 times in a parking lot. In another shocking case, a Russian war veteran threatens to kill his wife and decapitate police officers — yet walks free with a suspended sentence. And near Moscow, an unknown shooter opens fire on teenagers sitting quietly outside, wounding a 14-year-old boy with a pneumatic rifle. In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we examine Russia’s rising wave of everyday violence: knife attacks among teenagers, growing aggression linked to war trauma, and random acts of brutality happening in ordinary neighborhoods across the country.