"Tremble before us, enemies! If we do that to our own soldiers, imagine what we'll do to you!"

Russian soldiers have tortured a man to the point when his legs and genitals had to be amputated.

No, they did not catch Shamil Basayev and torture the details of his latest terrorist act out of him. They did it to one of their own conscripts, as a part of traditional hazing. Here is an article in English.

"Andrei Sychev spent 2 days in hospital. He was not operated because doctors were on vacation till January 10." Wow. This sounds so, well, Russian. Or ex-USSR, whatever.

He was serving in the batallion of educational process maintenance in Chelyabinsk Tank Institute. I really, really don't wanna know how these guys maintain the educational process.