Ruined mass

Major Alexey Dymovsky, an employee of the Novorossiysk Internal Affairs Directorate, who became famous throughout the country, who appealed to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin via YouTube with complaints, arrived in Moscow exactly on Police Day to hold a press conference. There were some obstacles. First, he was detained in Rostov-on-Don by traffic police officers - Dymovsky was driving to the Rostov airport in his car to fly from there to the capital. After some time, the major was released, but when he tried to check in for the flight, it turned out that his bank card was blocked. At the same time, the major himself, in a conversation with Gazeta.Ru, claimed that before this there was enough money on the card for a ticket.

As a result, Dymovsky had to go to Moscow by car. Fearing surveillance, he turned off his mobile phone.

In the meantime, all of the major’s statements about corruption in the Internal Affairs Directorate were officially recognized as unfounded, lawsuits were filed against him in connection with libel, the regional department of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor’s office began an investigation against him, the Department of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that Dymovsky covered up drug dealers, and in general they agreed to the point that foreign-funded non-governmental organizations are behind his speech (see “A Drop of Bile”). Information also appeared that Dymovsky was fired. And the chief doctor of the clinic to which Dymovsky is assigned believes that the major requires a serious medical examination; he allegedly behaved inappropriately in the clinic: “There were all the signs of a psychopathic personality.” In a video message, Dymovsky accused the head physician of being in cahoots with the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate and refusing to send police officers on sick leave.

However, the major also had supporters. Thus, the former head of the criminal investigation department of the Eastern District Department of Internal Affairs of Novorossiysk, Andrei Narvatkin, who was asked to refute Dymovsky’s words, refused to do so and stated: “Everything is as Dymovsky says. I completely agree with him. There is complete injustice in our Novorossiysk police department.” According to him, quoted by Gazeta.Ru, they wanted to force him to testify that the Novorossiysk police department always gave bonuses, paid time off and days off - this testimony was planned to be used in the criminal case against Dymovsky. Narvatkin was forced to resign in 2007 due to a conflict with his boss.

The current Police Day, however, will apparently be overshadowed for many already by the harsh treatment of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev, who announced: “We will not cover up for anyone. This also applies to those who long ago turned their service in law enforcement agencies into a criminal business, which means they betrayed the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” True, he admitted that in recent years “some negative trends associated with the staffing of internal affairs bodies” have been overcome, in particular, “to reduce staff turnover” and “to put barriers to the entry of random people into the service.”