Prishibeevs involuntarily

Soldiers of the 2nd battalion of the Special Purpose Police Detachment of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate wrote a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev with complaints about their superiors. They sent similar letters to the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Presidential Administration, the head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the detachment commander Major General Vyacheslav Khaustov, and the head of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate General Vyacheslav Kozlov. And besides, they came to the editorial office of The New Times magazine and talked about how their work was going.

The letter, excerpted by the magazine, said: “We can work 10-15 days in a row, 17-20 hours a day without lunch. (...) Battalion commander, police colonel S.A. Evtikov. from one employee requires three detainees at the end of the shift; if there are none, then the employee loses a bonus or mayoral salary increase. (...) As Colonel Evtikov often puts it, “you are slaves and must do what I want.”

In a conversation with journalists from The New Times, riot police confirmed that each shift must detain three people, and “if they are not there, draw them, but so that the report to the Main Internal Affairs Directorate looks beautiful. As a result, homeless people end up in the Kitay-Gorod police department 12 times a week for petty hooliganism.” “In 2008, Moscow riot police allegedly detained, delivered and issued fines to 40 thousand citizens. This is a small town in the province! At the beginning of 2009, there was a conference call where they said: “This year we must process at least 40 thousand.” In 10 years, we’ll register half of Moscow,” the riot police admit. The allowance from the mayor of Moscow mentioned in the letter is 10 thousand rubles per month. The salary of a riot police officer is 15-16 thousand. The magazine’s interlocutors emphasize: 25-26 thousand is quite decent money for a non-Muscovite, and visitors make up the majority of the Moscow riot police. According to the commander of the 2nd battalion, Colonel Sergei Evtikov, “We don’t need Muscovites, they ask too many questions. We need out-of-towners, loyal and stupid.” Nonresidents are dependent on their superiors, in particular because they live in a hostel.

The magazine's interlocutors said that in some cases their battalion was used to make money: they demanded that rallies be dispersed without any documented orders from their superiors. So they were brought in to disperse a rally of local residents near the Moscow shopping center, where traders had moved from the Cherkizovsky market, which was closed by the authorities. There were no documents, just the head of the local security service “asked” to break the posters and drag the rally participants opposing the market into the territory of the shopping center. The riot police refused and found out that the local police department knew nothing about this. As a result of the scandal, Colonel Evtikov fired senior lieutenant Andrei Cheklanov, who just began to figure out why they were being asked to disperse the rally without official orders. At the same time, the colonel said to the senior lieutenant: “You ruined so much money, you fool.” Then it turned out that this was not the first riot police raid paid for by the market, and only the 2nd battalion rebelled, since experienced fighters served there. They said that in 2008, the colonel ordered the “destruction” of the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market, and then a criminal case was opened against one of the riot police who participated in the “destruction”, since the conflicting parties made peace.

As the riot police said, commercial agreements can be made not only with the battalion commander, but also with the company commander and even with specific fighters - sometimes they agree to “guard” the shawarma tent. Employees of the 2nd battalion guard prostitutes in the square near three train stations, on the Moscow Ring Road, in Khimki, in apartments in Strogin, cottages on Rublevskoye Highway, a factory in Fili, “the office of a Georgian thief in law” (this last one, according to the magazine’s interlocutors, pays Colonel Evtikov 12 thousand rubles a day for one riot policeman - two jeeps with riot police go with him - and the riot policemen themselves end up receiving 1,500 rubles each). Accompanying cargo.

At first, they were given service weapons for such missions, but then they stopped and even began to issue a different, black, rather than blue uniform, but also with “OMON” stripes. At the same time, each riot policeman writes a report stating that he was “warned of the inadmissibility of engaging in commercial activities,” and a report of dismissal without a date.

The participation of the 2nd battalion in such illegal events was revealed: for example, recently, according to riot police, “one businessman made his way to Minister Nurgaliev and showed him photographs of those who seized his office.” But the matter did not go further than the ministerial order to carry out an inspection - “who will cover up a profitable business?” And no one, according to the riot police, is going to fire Colonel Yevtikov, since he assured Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mikhail Sukhodolsky that his battalion is ready to complete any assigned task. Therefore, it is the 2nd battalion that disperses the marches of dissenters and even pensioners. (The magazine’s interlocutors said that they were even ready to be sent not only to Primorye to disperse protest rallies in Vladivostok, but also to Chisinau and even South Ossetia!) The “hero” of the scandalous story with the dispersal of Soviet veterans in December 2008, when the chairman of the Union of Soviet officers, Lieutenant General Alexei Fomin, had his arm twisted and he had to call an ambulance to the Tverskoye police department; it was Colonel Evtikov. Employees of the 2nd battalion said that they have orders to always detain Limonov (“and then the police sit in the department and think about what article to pin on him”) and to “carefully” remove journalists (though this is an innovation; previously they removed them sloppily, with broken cameras and heads). They also told how on December 31, not only participants in an unauthorized rally, but also many random passers-by were detained on Triumfalnaya Square.

At the same time, none of the riot police were brought to criminal responsibility for obvious violations during the dispersal of rallies. Even when a riot policeman broke the Russian flag, he simply resigned of his own free will and was reinstated in another department without any problems.

The riot police also complain about the new head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, who “tightly covers” the officers. Those dismissed cannot be reinstated through the courts, since the judges of the Moscow City Court are guarded by the same 2nd battalion.