Russian Soldier Blew Up His Wife During SexNikita and Oksana were in love, then sexy Oksana’s political career with Putin’s United Russia party soared. Nikita couldn’t take it any more.MOSCOW — Last week in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a former soldier married to a glamorous member of the Kremlin’s United Russia party reportedly blew both of them up with a grenade after they had sex in the back seat of her car.
A crime of passion? PTSD? Politics? Or all three?
Nikita Tislenko, allegedly a special services veteran of the war in eastern Ukraine, and 30-year-old Oksana Bobrovkskaya,
a member of the regional legislature
, were found half-naked in Bobrovskaya’s shattered Toyota Rav-4, parked outside her office on Tatyana Snezhnaya Avenue.
The car was a present given to Bobrovskaya by her friends from United Russia and the Novosibirsk city council. Apparently, her husband disapproved of such expensive gifts to his wife, as well as of Bobrovskaya’s high-flying local career and her high-profile connections.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, one of Bobrovskaya’s political promoters in United Russia, Victor Kozodoi, said that the young “glamorous socialite†had never shared details of her family life. As for the husband: “I have only seen him once or twice.â€
Kozodoi, a former deputy governor and also a current member of the Novosibirsk legislative council, was the one who discovered Bobrovskaya’s talent for public relations. Five years ago Kozodoi hired Bobrovskaya, 25 at the time, to lead his own election campaign. Her abilities helped win the deputy his seat. “Since then she had developed into a proud, experienced and impressive lady,†Kozodoi told The Daily Beast.
What happened to his protégé was “a shocking tragedy†for all her friends and colleagues in United Russia, said Kozodoi. The deputy blamed the current realities of Russian life for Bobrovskaya’s murder.
“Her husband graduated from a military college. He must have been a special character, if he was eager to have a career in the army,†said Kozodoi, “but things did not work for him.â€
“Compared to Oksana’s quick career growth, her husband’s own ambitions looked as if they’d failed,†said the deputy. “The problem is that there is no service, no psychological rehabilitation for military officers, who fail in their career life.â€
The problem is also that according to current statistics 12,000 to 14,000 women are
killed by their husbands or other relatives
every year, about one woman an hour.
Bobrovskaya described some of her personal life pains on the Internet forum for young mothers,
baby.ru
.
Three years ago Bobrovskaya, already a successful businesswoman and member of United Russia, admitted in a post: « We quarreled 5 days ago, he has slept separately for 5 nights. He does not want to talk. He says just a few phrases: ‘We are strangers, you have achieved everything you wanted…’â€