‘Yes, I Did It’: Politician Confesses to Murdering Wife on Social Media

A politician in Russia’s Tver region has sent shockwaves through the country after apparently confessing to murdering his wife on Saturday in a bitter post on social media.

Yevgeny Nikolsky, the chairman of the local branch of “A Just Russia—For Truth,” began his post bluntly, around the same time his wife’s body was found, according to local reports.

“Yes, I did it,” he wrote on the VK social networking site. “I’m not going to deny it and I will accept the necessary punishment. With my head held high, because I did everything right.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.