Hang all the dogs on them

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, actually accused two of the four leaders of the People's Freedom Party, Boris Nemtsov and Mikhail Kasyanov, of involvement in the riots on Manezhnaya Square on December 11, and Nemtsov also of murder. Speaking in the program “Unreal Politics” on NTV, which aired on January 30, Kadyrov said that Nemtsov and Kasyanov should be sent to prison so that riots like those at Manezhnaya would not happen again. If these two terrible people are imprisoned, “no one will be interested in going to Manezhka,” said the Chechen leader.

When presenter Andrei Kolesnikov recalled that Nemtsov had recently served 15 days in prison, Kadyrov said that the politician “was jailed the wrong way.” “And for the murder that was there, for those moments that were there, for this we should give him a sentence. And don’t just play with him, only then will we have order,” he added.

The only murder that can be associated with the outrages on Manezhnaya Square occurred on December 12 on Sudostroitelnaya Street: a group of young people attacked Kyrgyz citizen Alisher Shamshiev. He died on the spot from a knife blow.

As a matter of fact, Kadyrov only properly developed a thesis that had already been thrown into the public space some time ago by officials and Kremlin ideals. This series of accusations was started by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev, who on December 11 said that left-wing radical organizations were behind the riots at Manezhnaya. By left-wing radicals, if you are at least somewhat responsible for your words, you can mean either “The Other Russia” (and some activists of this party actually participated in some events in memory of Yegor Sviridov, and later invited pogromists from Manezhnaya to Triumphalnaya), or with a bunch reservations - anti-fascists (and to suspect them of involvement in what happened at Manezhnaya is certainly absurd, despite all the dislike of the authorities towards them), but it is still obvious that if any radical organizations were involved in what happened, then, first of all, right-wing. Then, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov said that the participants in the riots at Manezhnaya were adopting the techniques of those who go to Triumfalnaya on the 31st, as well as those who broke windows in the Khimki administration building - “other guys, the same redneck.” And here are the specific culprits: Nemtsov and Kasyanov. One may also recall that during a conversation with the population, Kadyrov’s beloved man, Prime Minister Putin, accused Nemtsov and two other leaders of the People’s Freedom Party, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Vladimir Milov (they simply didn’t ask him about Kasyanov) of having “made a hurricane” in the nineties together with Berezovsky and Khodorkovsky (Putin did not mention him by name, but made it clear that this was him in particular). It remains, by the way, for Khodorkovsky himself to be accused of involvement in the riots on Manezhnaya Square - especially since Putin has already accused him of involvement in the murders (though not of Shamshiev) more than once.

MAMI student Ilya Kubrakov and his two accomplices are accused of murdering Shamshiev. Kubrakov is considered one of the instigators of the crowd actions at Manezhnaya. According to press reports, Kubrakov is a football fan and is involved in nationalist circles. No one reported anything about his close acquaintance with liberals. However, it is unlikely that such logic worries some government officials.