The study found that males and females in Russia tended to kill and be killed in different situational contexts. Homicides in which a female was a victim or offender were more likely to occur between intimates and to occur in the home, whereas homicides involving males were more likely to occur in a public place, to be alcohol-related, to involve a firearm, and to involve a victim and offender who did not know each other well. These findings provide important knowledge of Russian homicide events while also allowing for the first time a comparison of results from Russia with those from Western nations. Relatively little is known of the distributions of homicide event characteristics in non-Western nations in which women relative to men are involved. This study utilized unique homicide narratives drawn from Russian court and police records to compare homicide incidents by sex of offender, and separately sex of victim, with respect to victim, offender, and event-level characteristics. Tables, notes, and references