Claim: A forthcoming Russian reality show called "Game2: Winter" will permit contestants to commit crimes, including rape and murder.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Game2: Winter
text: Game2: Winter Game2: Winter () was a social experiment and media stunt promoted as a Russian survival reality television program produced by Novosibirsk entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky that was set to premiere in . The show caught the attention of the press when the show stated that its rules would allow crimes such as rape and murder which sparked outrage online. The show has been compared to a "real-life "Hunger Games"". The project was revealed to be a social experiment used for marketing research purposes on . 30 participants, half men and half women, were expected to compete on a remote

title: Game2: Winter
text: via their VK account. Registration was closed on with over 340 applications. As of , 120 people had qualified for runoff voting. The 30 finalists were set to be revealed that . According to "The Guardian", "five countries have already expressed the desire to broadcast [the show] for their audiences". Game2: Winter Game2: Winter () was a social experiment and media stunt promoted as a Russian survival reality television program produced by Novosibirsk entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky that was set to premiere in . The show caught the attention of the press when the show stated that its rules would allow

title: Game2: Winter
text: Siberian island in the Ob River for a 100 million rouble ($1.7 million) prize on a nine month survival mission. All contestants were said to have signed death waivers and agreed not to hold the organisers accountable for criminal activity. However, Snopes found that 'Despite multiple misleading headlines, the waiver described by news outlets explicitly stated that contestants on the show would be obliged to "obey the laws of the Russian Federation".' The production's home base was in Western Siberia, with the Ob River area proposed as the main filming location. On , the production team posted a casting call

title: Winter of Frozen Dreams
text: Winter of Frozen Dreams Winter of Frozen Dreams is a 2009 independent American crime drama directed by Eric Mandelbaum, and starring Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, and Brendan Sexton III. The film follows the story of Barbara Hoffman, a Wisconsin biochemistry student and prostitute convicted of murder in the first televised murder trial ever. The film was primarily shot in Schenectady, New York, with parts of the movie also filmed in Mariaville, Scotia, and Alplaus, New York. A controversy during filming involving Birch's father and his forced presence during Birch's taping of a sex scene for the movie made tabloid headlines.

title: Winter of Frozen Dreams
text: Winter of Frozen Dreams Winter of Frozen Dreams is a 2009 independent American crime drama directed by Eric Mandelbaum, and starring Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, and Brendan Sexton III. The film follows the story of Barbara Hoffman, a Wisconsin biochemistry student and prostitute convicted of murder in the first televised murder trial ever. The film was primarily shot in Schenectady, New York, with parts of the movie also filmed in Mariaville, Scotia, and Alplaus, New York. A controversy during filming involving Birch's father and his forced presence during Birch's taping of a sex scene for the movie made tabloid headlines.

title: Irina Gaidamachuk
text: confessed to the killings. Another woman who had been initially suspected for the crimes, and after pressure from authorities, confessed to the murders. Gaidamachuk stated that she committed the murder-robberies to pay for vodka to feed her alcohol addiction, as her husband refused to give her money for it. In February 2012, the court case began in Yekaterinburg. Gaidamachuk gave a confession to the indictment during the preliminary investigation, but contested this throughout her trial. A forensic psychiatric examination conducted by GNTSSSP Serbsky showed that Gaidamachuk, although she showed some mental illness, was legally sane at the time of the

title: Blue Whale (game)
text: out of an apartment and falling on snow-covered ground in the town of Krasnoyarsk, also in Siberia. On 26 May 2017, the Russian Duma passed a bill introducing criminal responsibility for creating pro-suicide groups on social media and in June 2017, President Putin signed a law imposing criminal penalties for inducing minors to suicide. The law imposes a maximum punishment of six years in prison. On July 15, 2018, the Saudi General Commission for Audio-Visual Media banned 47 video games, including "Grand Theft Auto V", "Assassin's Creed II" and "", that had online components that were alleged to be part

title: Dmitry Karimov
text: her cell phone and threw the body under a heater. The girl appealed to the police after she woke up, but did not report the rape and attempted murder, explaining that "she just got a job, and did not need any problems with the police". Karimov was convicted of robbery and infliction of bodily injuries to 2 years' imprisonment. The first murder he committed was in December 2005, on the territory of the Yekaterinburg Mayanovskoye Central Park of Culture. He killed a 15-year-old schoolgirl, who had just left school and was walking around the park. After killing her, Karimov took

title: Great Reality TV Swindle
text: to create their own TV show about themselves. Having also given up his flat and job, Russian was also homeless, and was forced to stay with the contestants he had manipulated. After the programme failed, Russian went into hiding, and was unable to be contacted. He was eventually tracked down by one of his victims to an address in Richmond upon Thames, where he was forced to apologise on camera. As he had not taken any money from his victims, a criminal case against Russian was not pursued—a civil case was also not pursued due to a lack of funds.

title: Nikolay Sakharov
text: and Marina Mukhina). Having a car, he scoured in search of victims around the city and the surrounding area. If he met a lonely young girl on the road, he offered her a ride, most often dressed in a police uniform. When the girl got into the car, he took her out of town, into the woods, raped her (according to his confession, he raped two of the girls, but the third he could not), killing them by hitting them with a hammer, driftwood or tuning key. Then Sakharov burned the corpses, shattering the skulls with a big stick, wrapping

title: Vladimir Tushinsky
text: a sexual nature, rape and murder of the Criminal Code of Russia. In early September 2015, Tushinsky's case along with the indictment was referred to the court for examination. Previously, experts conducted more than 60 examinations, including complex forensic psycho-sexual-psychiatric ones, which revealed that the man showed signs of pedophilia, but was declared sane. At the same time, the investigators failed to find evidence that the murderer's victims had been sexually assaulted. The trial itself began on October 7, 2015 in the Kamchatka Regional Court. During the judicial investigation, more than 70 volumes of the criminal case were examined. On

title: Let Them Talk (talk show)
text: Putin if she were to appear on the show. On Tuesday, February 1, 2017, rape victim Diana was a guest on the show. She talked about her rape at the hands of a 21-year-old man Semyonov. Semyonov was sentenced to eight years in a prison colony for “rape” and “violent acts of a sexual nature.” An appellate court later reduced his sentence to three years and three months. Commentators blamed Diana for provoking sexual assault. Almost all the panelists — often models and bloggers — and most of the audience were clearly on the side of Semyonov. The show spawned

title: Great Reality TV Swindle
text: most contestants had given up their homes, jobs and partners—most had to find new employment and some were forced to move in with their parents. Russian went into hiding and was unable to be reached by his victims. On 13 June 2002, Debbie Leigh Driver, one of Russian's contestants, contacted Caz Gorham and Frances Dickenson of the independent production company Christmas TV & Film and told them about the hoax. Gorham and Dickenson produced a genuine TV programme to document the story of the con and how the participants were now trying to get their lives back together, which was

title: Alexander Emelianenko
text: other Russian athletes, in the 2010 Russian TV series starring Yevgeni Sidikhin, "Olympic Village". Emelianenko was accused of assaulting and raping his former housekeeper Polina Stepanova on May 2, 2014, as well as stealing her passport. Emelianenko pleaded not guilty and claimed the sex was consensual. Prosecutors asked for five years in prison for Emelianenko. On May 19, 2015, Emelianenko was found guilty of sexual assault and convicted to four and a half years in prison along with a $1000 (US) fine. On 20 May 2015, his promoter Oleg Rajewski stated that he would appeal the decision. On 24 September

title: Vladimir Romanov (serial killer)
text: victim remained alive and gave a description of the offender, with Romanov being arrested soon after and sentenced to 10 years in prison. While in prison, he was raped by another inmate. After his release in 2001, Romanov began working in the private transport industry. In order not to go to prison again, Romanov carefully planned his crimes. His victims were young girls and women between 12 and 19 years, whom he always raped and then killed, either burying the bodies in the forest or sometimes burning them. On September 25, 2006, he attempted to rape a 24-year-old whom managed

title: The Winter Queen (novel)
text: Petersburg, and the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Between October 13, 2003, and October 24, 2003, an abridged version was broadcast as the "Book at Bedtime" on BBC Radio 4, in 10, 15-minute parts. The Winter Queen (novel) The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin. It was subtitled "конспирологический детектив" ("conspiracy mystery"). The novel opens on 13 May 1876 with a university student, Pyotr Kokorin, committing suicide in the public park in front of a beautiful young noblewoman, Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva. His will

title: Dmitry Karimov
text: Russia left the verdict unchanged, and is currently being enforced. Karimov is currently serving his sentence in the White Swan prison. Dmitry Karimov Dmitry Sharifyanovich Karimov (born October 23, 1978) is a Russian rapist and serial killer, who raped 10 women from 2005 to 2006, killing 7 of them. He operated in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the area of the ferro-concrete products factory, for which he received the nickname "The Concrete Products Maniac". Karimov worked as a bricklayer in Yekaterinburg when he committed his first offense in 2004. After attacking his girlfriend, he punched her several times, then raped

title: Roman Kalinin
text: feared that she could inform the police about the crime that they had committed. After the second murder, they decided to simulate a robbery attack on the victims: they took gold jewelry, a pager and a cosmetic bag from the dead, and then threw the bodies into the Chita River. In the summer of 2009, Kalinin met with a female student in Chita, and invited her to a vacation outside the city. The student took a friend with her on the trip. On June 17, the three of them arrived by train to the station "Glubokaya Pad", from which they

title: Salt (2010 film)
text: spider venom to cause a simulated death of Matveyev. Winter refuses her entry and reveals that Mike's kidnapping and murder and her blown cover were all his idea. Winter plans to place full blame for the nuclear attacks on Salt. Salt breaks into the room before he can launch the missiles. The two wrestle for control of the nuclear football, with Salt aborting the missile strikes before being captured. As Salt is being led out in chains, Winter grabs a pair of scissors, ready to attack her or to defend himself if necessary. She unexpectedly hooks her chain around Winter's

title: Andrei Evseev
text: of Evseev's apartment. At the interrogations, Evseev was defiant and refused to communicate with the female investigator. He agreed to testify only after he was brought salted herring, which he ate entirely with bones. Subsequently, he confessed to 9 murders, 18 attempted murders, one rape and 32 robberies. The forensic psychiatric examination recognized Evseev as sane, but at the same time called him a "sociopath". While waiting for the court, Evseev watched for himself, and did exercises every morning. The maniac felt no remorse for his deeds, claiming that he despised those who work and live "from salary to salary."