Underground level

On January 27, President Dmitry Medvedev inspected the new security system at the Okhotny Ryad metro station. Kommersant correspondent Ivan Buranov accidentally witnessed this. At the station, especially for the president, they installed “a large camera for x-raying passengers, a tape for inspecting luggage and a special container for isolating bombs.” Passengers, who, in theory, should have been checked, were not allowed near the complex. Medvedev, having examined the new products, talked with the operator through the new information stand, after which the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, who accompanied him, invited him to test the new capabilities of the stand and take a photo. But, as Kommersant writes, “something went wrong with the stand.” “Okay, I hope this is the first test test,” the president said graciously.

Meanwhile, as the Russian News Service reports, when Medvedev left, all the new equipment was piled in the corner and they didn’t even post police guards nearby. The duty officers told the RSN correspondent that people who knew how to use the equipment left the station immediately after the president. The information stand did not work - unlike the president, the journalist was unlucky and did not hear the operator’s voice.

It is known that the decision to create such a complex was made in connection with the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro on March 29. But it has not yet been accepted and approved by the state commission, so only an experimental zone was created at Okhotny Ryad, RSN reports the words of the head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Gaev.