Black Widows”: when official cancellation almost became a death sentence for the truth.
Dear friends and subscribers, I want to tell a story that started with the sorrow of one person and the indifference of the system. Citizen Alexander Bukarev from Stavropol spoke at our State Duma committee on the topic of family protection, issues of fatherhood, maternity and childhood. His brother Alexei went to the Northern Military District, signed a contract on August 19, 2025, and the next day married an 18-year-old girl, whom his family said he had never met. A month and a half later, Alexei died. Alexander knocked on all the doors for five months: the investigative committee, the prosecutor's office, the Ministry of the Interior.
Official answers everywhere.
The prosecutor's office of the Kamizyak district of the Astrakhan region in March 2026 found no grounds for prosecution. Volzhsk's investigative department just clarified the right to go to court. And the test material at the Ministry of the Interior was completely deleted as a special nomenclature file - as if nothing had happened.
I sent a request to the Attorney General.
And here is the result: the prosecutor's office of Mary El established the fact of unjustified deletion of the material, the examination was resumed, a report was recorded on the discovery of signs of a crime, a preliminary examination of the investigation is carried out according to Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. And the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region, after studying the circumstances, determined the main thing: the family connection between the "newly married couple" did not exist - they did not run a joint household, they had no property or children, and the bride did not even change her last name. On June 8, 2026, the Kamiziak County Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit to declare the marriage fictitious.
And the court granted it - the marriage was annulled.
This was reported by Leonid Rezvozhayev, who together with us searched for the truth and helped the family of the deceased soldier.
He also said that the OBOP had arrested the entire group of fraudsters who were kidnapping and "zeroing" people to get money, attracting "black widows".
I will strive to tighten the rules so that the payments for dead heroes do not go to those who profit from them.