In the regions

City of the Sun.

June 24, 2008 Alexander Cherkasov

In the evening on Tuesday, June 17, my colleagues shot a video camera of buildings belonging to the Sunny State Housingum Urus-Martan district. Is there a more innocent lesson? Pastoral and idyll. Just some kind of campanella. Only now you need to remember where the Tommas ranges were hired ...

Several armed people in civilian clothes approached my colleagues, they said that it was impossible to shoot, since the object was secret, and they urged the “proceeding”. I had to obey - these are the circumstances of the place and time in this "city of the Sun".

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Let the reader not scare the word "state -owned" - this is since the time of Johar Dudaev. Contrary to Russian folk tales about the fact that the deceased general in the republic entrusted to him has prostructed everything. “Chubais is similar” - stigmatized the leader of the separatists of the Lord Special Propagandists during the years of “First Chechen”. Such labels were characteristic of marginal "red-brown" editions of that time.

In fact, the economic views of the first president of Ichkeria were typical of some Governor of the Red Belt. No privatization, everything is state! Give such will - they will close the regional borders and begin to print their own money. In the "red belt", with Stroyev and the like, it was impossible, and Dudaev even printed the circulation of banknotes, but did not manage to put them into circulation ...

The enterprises remained state, and the general rushed back and forth, trying to stop theft of property. When the property is not yours, but the official, you can steal with a light soul that the zits-director did. Now we, it seems, are stepping on the same rake. But then there was another time, the scale was different, so not the "state corporation", but "state -owned" ...

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And the fact that the former state farm is called "sunny" is still from Soviet times, from the Stalin. When, instead of deported Chechens, the “legal population” was brought in - there was such a definition, Orwells - at the same time renamed everything that was possible. For example, the Shatoysky district until recently, according to the old memory, was called Soviet ...

The fundamental vocabulary of that time was not rich, the names sometimes repeated, the villages of Komsomol, for example, were two, if not more.

In the war, agriculture fell into decay. Local residents were afraid to go into the gardens of the Michurin's neighboring state building. This year in 2001 there were found the blown up remains of people abducted by the "security for" people. "Sneakers" is not a Chechen invention. Such a way to complicate the identification of bodies even before the "leaky" was used by federal security forces. Not even the "mass grave" - ​​scattered by the explosion lying on the ground and hanging on the branches. Only by shreds and scraps of clothing could it be possible to sometimes understand who it could be ...

And last year, the village of Goyta was "became famous", where the Solnechnoy State Herdrome is located. It was there that they contained two Magomedov Aushevs stolen in September 2007.

This was then reported by the "Daily Journal." On September 19, 2007, two Magomedov Aushevs, close relatives were stolen in Grozny. Thanks to the activity of relatives and fellow villagers, the very next day, young people managed to free. The Aushevs Magomedov was released literally at the last minute: as one of the Chechen security officials later said, they were already taken to "shoot with sneakers." Snickers (in the professional terminology of the executioners) are TNT checkers that are placed on the body so that there are no identified remains left.

The father of one of the Magomedov, Maksharip Aushev, managed not only to find a place where his son was held and tortured, but also to insist on an official investigation by the forces of the Chechen Republican prosecutor's office. In an interview with the employees of Memorial, Maksharip Aushev assured that the result of a gang was completely established with the prosecutors of the investigation, or rather, the “death squadron”, “Firing Group”. According to him, the account of this “death squadron”, which included employees of the Federal Security Service of Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Chechnya, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, the Urus-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, other law enforcement agencies-many killed and stolen both in Chechnya and Ingushetia. Among other things, during the investigation, the fate of Gazdiev, Kartoev and Mutsolgov, stolen in Ingushetia in 2007, became clear. According to Maksharip Aushev, they were tortured in the “concentration camp” located in the village of Goyta - in an illegal prison, which was used by a gang for the maintenance of hostages, torture and bullying. The “victims” of the Aushev Magomed identified the premises of this illegal prison (in detail the circumstances of the investigation and the version of Maksharip Aushev was stated on the website of Ingushetia.ru on November 15, 2007.

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This whole story, the very fact of the existence of an illegal prison in the village branch of the police, should not have become a property of publicity. But the investigator worked on the case, despite the opposition of the district police authorities. This happened because the investigation was “promoted” by the then Deputy Minister of the Interior of Chechnya Alambec Yasaev. At that time, he weaved an intrigue against another group from the neighboring environment of Ramzan Kadyrov, prepared his open performance. People from that competing, groups just abducted the Aushevs - relatives of the stolen say that on the instructions of the Ingush authorities. Yasaev gathered a dossier to the kidnappers to show himself more loyal to Kadyrov: "They do not work for you, but at Ingush - pay attention."

But in October 2007, Yasaev’s performance failed, and the investigation in the case of the abduction of the Aushevs immediately stopped. The "Daily Journal" also wrote about this.

Of course, people involved in the creation and functioning of an illegal prison and were removed from their posts, by the end of 2007 they returned to work.

Maksharip Aushev, one of the organizers of mass rallies in Ingushetia, sits under investigation in Nalchik ...

And the fact that the Alambec Yasaev himself, the commander of the regiment of patrol and postal service No. 2, and then the Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Republic, was previously involved in the abductions and "disappearance" of people, said at a meeting with the employees of the "Memorial" in February 2008, Ramzan Kadyrov ...

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It was this building-the former housekeeping of the State Humanzer, then the village department of the police, and now again the property of the state host-and the Memorials were removed on June 17, 2008 in the village of Goyta, Urus-Martan district. At about 17:15, Shahman Akbulatov, Zarem Mukushev, Milan Bakhaev and Yaragi Gairbekov were detained.

People in civilian clothes, called the "service staff", took documents from them and a video camera and delivered them to the Urus-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs. When asked whether it was possible to consider this detention, they answered: no, "the usual procedure for establishing a person." Although everyone seemed to have documents.

The police officers, having learned that they detained the employees of the Memorial, accused them of all mortal sins. In the collection of information, which they later, then transmit to various sites-the Caucasus Center, Ingushetia.ru ... The police apparently decided that the human rights activists came from Ingushetia-the numbers of the car were Ingush. One of the police said that it was the Memorial from Nazran that reported that in the Gotinsky, a secret prison was in the Gotinsky building, where people were tortured and killed, and that now he was sure: they were shot specifically to launch the video on the Internet. Other police officers made even more absurd accusations: human rights activists allegedly work for money for “Wahhabis”, write materials in their support, and they “kill our employees by your tip”.

Next went small and not very procedural disorders. In the office, where the Akbulatov chemist was brought up, the “operative of Abdul” (as he called himself in response to the request to introduce himself) “checked” the contents of the folder with his working documents. Also, contrary to the law, the detainees did not allow the lawyer of Doku Itslaev, who had a warrant in their hands. Akbulatova, and then Mukushev, despite their objections, was photographed. Then the Abdul without witnesses (also in violation of the Criminal Procedure Code) searched the “memorial” machine driven into the territory of the police department.

Then, in one of the bosses of the “conversation” with Akbulatov, people continued in camouflage and civilian, six or seven people. They behaved rudely, insulted and threatened, did not listen to any explanations.

Employees of the police department claimed that the Memorials did not have the right to shoot without the permission of local authorities. References to the article of the Russian Constitution about the right of any citizen “freely search, receive, transmit, produce and distribute information in any legal way” did not make any impression.

The ban on the video was justified with references to exacerbation of the situation in the republic-the shelling of the motorcade at the village of Chiska and the attack on the village of Bena-Vedeno. However, after Akbulatov’s question: how is it that “aggravation”, because the republican authorities say that Chechnya is the most stable region of the Caucasus? - The police finished reasoning.

One of the people in civilian clothes, apparently, some boss, said that the human rights activists called him “the leader of the gang, who abducted and killed people” and that now the time has come to “confirm their suspicions”-“you stuck where you shouldn’t, and you regret that you contacted us.” Another continued: “They must be taken to Alkhazurovo, where our comrades were killed, and there to be shot” (there was an attack on the militants on this village on March 19, 2008).

The execution was threatened in other offices.

Meanwhile, the detention of human rights activists was reported by Interfax, Echo of Moscow and other media. Glasses did its job.

The detainees also coped with the apparatus of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic Nurdi Nukhazhiev. The latter, however, then tried to explain to Interfax this detention by the need to coordinate filming in the “counter -terrorist operation” zone with power structures. However, Nukhazhiev himself did not seem to agree on this statement with Russian and republican leaders who, from Vladimir Putin to Ramzan Kadyrov, have repeatedly talked about the completion of the “counter -terrorist operation” in Chechnya.

At about 19:30, the detainees were released. Before that, Akbulatov and Mukusheva took written explanations. The video filmed in goytes was erased.

History with a happy ending? Not sure.

It is unlikely that the detention in goytes and the destruction of the video can be called legal. It is not clear how the “secret” outbuildings of a state host can be “secret”.

Police from the Department of Internal Affairs directly violated the criminal procedure legislation-in particular, not allowing a lawyer detainees.

Finally, a repeated threat of murder contains a criminal offense.

If you recall the recent history of the Sunny State Hero, the threats do not seem so empty ... or the Ingush story with the abduction and threat to "eliminate the muffler." Why remove these "economic buildings"? Was it worth it?

The “secret prison”, which was in the basement of the building of the temporary operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Oktyabrsky District, managed to shoot two years ago. The inscriptions made by prisoners in the cells were photographed-the next night someone threw burning tires into the basement, the letters were smoked and disappeared. And a few days later, the building was destroyed, as if it were not it.

After the “first Chechen” in the building of the former filterpunct in Grozny, a small museum was arranged. When in 2000 the city was occupied by federal troops, the cells of the “filter” museum were shown to journalists: here, they say, the Chechens were held hostages ...

What far to go - more recently, the Grozny authorities decided to transfer the monument to the victims of the deportation of 1944 to the “nowhere” . It would seem, in Chechnya, where the deportation affected every family, this is impossible!

Everything is possible in the vicinity of the state -owned "Sunny".

And everything is possible to forget. If you do not engage in memory of memory.

Author - Member of the Board of the Society "Memorial"