SAD OLIGARCH
Episodes
A Fired Reporter Falls Out a Window
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Exiled Russian journalist Yevgeny Safranov is extremely stressed out. Inside his Paris apartment he paces up and down, furious that all his devic...
Secret Deaths at Russia’s Oil Corporation
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners of Season One will likely remember Lukoil, the Russian energy conglomerate with one foot in the regime and another in international commerce...
The Tycoon in a Gulag (Part Two)
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To understand what was truly going on at the heart of the embezzlement ring Igor Kotelnikov was part of, we must understand the conditions of the jail...
The Tycoon in a Gulag (Part One)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Multimillionaire businessman Igor Kotelnikov is used to the high life: fancy cars, big houses, fine dining. He’s lived a life of luxury, which i...
Drowned in Success
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russian financier Georgy Chibisov is partying on a yacht on the Moscow River. At some point in the night he steps out for a breather. It’s the l...
Hanged with Hands Bound
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Municipal lawmaker Vitaly Kapustin is found hanged in a tall tree using a cable attached to his car. The police rule it a suicide, that is until ...
An Uphill Battle to the Kremlin
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re halfway through season 2, so this episode is an interlude of sorts. As you can probably imagine, the work that goes into this project is m...
Hanged in a Secret Nuclear City
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Senior accountant Evgeny Postrigan hangs himself in the garage of his home in the closed city of Zheleznogorsk. This is a place shrouded in secrecy, w...
Kaliningrad’s Decapitated Entrepreneur
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dead body of Alexey Sinitsyn is laid out under a bridge in Russia’s European exclave, Kaliningrad. It is missing one very vital component&md...
The Rocket Scientist's Poison Mushroom
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russian rocket scientist Vitaly Melnikov has been picking wild mushrooms his whole life. Somehow though, at 77-years-old, he picks a bad one and ...
The Kursk Raid Suicide
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russian oligarch Roman Starovoyt is having a very bad day. He’s the Minister of Transport, a prestigious position in Putin’s regime. Well,...
The Siberian Heart Attack
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in the Siberian peninsula, a corrupt politician falls out of the window of his home and hits the ground hard. Eyewitnesses describe the scene, ex...
Introducing: SAD OLIGARCH Season 2
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their w...
Introducing: Away Days Podcast - No Rules on the Riviera
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, Sad Oligarch fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary serie...
Introducing: Away Days Podcast - A Cold Day for Violence
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, Sad Oligarch fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary serie...
Part Two: A War Criminal Oligarch Is Shot Out of the Sky
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the finale of Sad Oligarch we look into the final weeks of Prigozhin's life and explain how his violent death casts the mysterious deaths we've lo...
Part One: A War Criminal Oligarch Is Shot Out of the Sky
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In what will be a two-part final episode of Sad Oligarch, we take a deep dive into the violent life and violent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin—an oligar...
Rich Russians Keep Dying
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the penultimate episode of the series, Jake and Sergiy discuss the many mysterious Russian billionaire and millionaire deaths that have occurred si...
DC Freemasons & Russian Psyops
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the conclusion to the Dan Rapoport subplot, we discover how a Russian gossip blogger managed to break the story of his death and why a DC Freemason...
The Death of a Fake Pentagon Analyst
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our look into the bizarre circumstances surrounding the death of Latvian born Russian-American businessman Dan Rapoport, we expose his ...
The Nightclub Owner Who Fell Out a Window in Washington, DC
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does a Latvian-born nightclub owner have to do with you Russian oil and gas, Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump? More than you’d expect… Sadly we ...
An Oil Magnate Jumps Out a Hospital Window
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A checkup at the hospital seems an unlikely place for a suicide, but when a multil-million dollar Russian oil magnate had to get his heart checked, th...
A Rich Scientist Falls Down Some Stairs
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2022 the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute fell down some stairs at work and died instantly. Why is this suspicious? To clarif...
A Business Assassination with a Non-lethal Firearm
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Gazprom linked businessman Yury Voronov took a break at his cottage mansion, a gunman snuck through the trees and broke into his home. Voronov was ...
Axe Family Murder at the Holiday Villa
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On April 19th 2022, a Russian tycoon was found hanging from a railing inside his Spanish holiday villa. His wife and daughter were also found dead. Th...
An Oil Baron’s Frog Venom Heart Attack
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2022 a Russian billionaire engaged in a shamanic ritual in a bid to help cure his hangover and spiralling alcoholism. During the ritual, frog v...
A Double Suicide at Gazprom's Nest
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One day after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a Russian Gazprom executive hanged himself in the garage of his villa in the affluent village...
A Family Annihilation in Moscow
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On March 23rd 2022, affluent Russian businessman Vasily Melnikov was found dead alongside his family in their upscale Moscow apartment. They’d all b...