Handcuffed and helpless, Yevgeny Makarov is held face down on a desk as more than a dozen prison officers take it in turn to beat him.
They punch the soles of his feet first, then thrash them with truncheons.
This is no frenzied, spontaneous attack. The methods are calculated to cause maximum pain.
The guards have to rest, exhausted, between beatings.
The assault took place more than a year ago at Prison Number One in Yaroslavl, 272km (169 miles) north of Moscow.
The victim's complaint was rejected at the time; an investigator concluded staff had used "appropriate" force.
Now this explosive evidence has been published by a newspaper, shocking Russians and prompting demands for justice.
VIDEO: Russian Guards Routinely Torture Prisoners
Gavin Parker
Kayden Cruz
In other news, water is wet.
Grayson Kelly
So prisoners get out being even more fucked up? Sounds like your average prison.
Oliver Gonzalez
nice video OP.
Russian soldiers torture eachother. did you think they would be nice to their prisoners?
Nathan Adams
Westerners couldn't give a fuck about Russians tbh. If it happened to their own guy, they'd be losing their shit.
Jeremiah Murphy
rightfully so, I mean it's their own country, so wtf do I care
Cooper Gomez
Gets me every time
Asher Myers
OP HERE……
OOOPS I'M SUCH A DUMBASS I FORGOT TO UPLOAD THE VIDEO
here you go……………….
Adrian Morris
VIDEO: op routinely tortures us with his inability to create a simple thread without making an embarrassing mistake.
Jackson Diaz
Based BBC though, making me love the west and hate Putin's fascist dictatorship!