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“It is like being in hell,” said Oskana Pechteleva. In January 2020, Pechteleva’s 23-year-old daughter Vera, from Kemerovo in western Siberia, was brutally slain by her ex-boyfriend Vladislav Kanyus.
Kanyus inflicted more than 100 injuries on the young woman, and he was ultimately sentenced to 17 years in prison for her death. The police officers who took hours to respond after Vera’s neighbors called the station were handed suspended sentences.
“Police officers ignored seven calls made to…
