THE HOUR IS STILL

POWER AND PEOPLE

The city is like a city. Ordinary people live in the city. They love chanson. From minibuses comes: "... And our district police officer, cop mug, Suddenly looked at your home ...". They don't like precincts. An illusion is created that there is some particularly cynical police in the city. IN...

The city is like a city. Ordinary people live in the city. They love chanson. From minibuses comes: "... And our district police officer, cop mug, Suddenly looked at your home ...". They don't like precincts. An illusion is created that there is some particularly cynical police in the city. In the news - a story about a beating. There is an article in the newspaper about torture. In fact, it is only an illusion. The city is like a city. And illusions have an explanation.

An organization called the Committee against Torture works in Nizhny Novgorod. Everyone in Nizhny knows what is hushed up, hushed up and suppressed in every possible way in other cities. Thanks to the committee. Moreover, the police continue to create "information occasions". The first high-profile case that the "torturers" took up in 2001 was the "case of Sergei Oleinik." They consider the outcome of the case to be their victory, although victory or defeat is a moot point.

... November 2000. Returning from work, trucker Sergey Oleinik and his friend went to a mini-market not far from home. Sitting down at a plastic table in the corner and pouring a “small” one, Oleinik lit a cigarette. At this time, two men entered the store and asked for Lyudka. Lyudka was not there, but the loud-voiced cleaning lady Galina announced that "Lyudka left you something here." Galina passed this “something” to the men and the conversation ended. However, the expressive cleaning lady lacked communication that day. Hysterically urging Oleinik and the company to "stop smoking in the wrong place," Galina went to the men with the intention of "sweeping away the glasses." Oleinik did not have time to fulfill the “request” of the cleaner. After Galina's shout, two people who were looking for Lyudka immediately turned to him: “Let's go out, we'll talk. We are from the police.” The “police officers” smelled of vodka. On the street, Sergei Oleinik asked me to show him his ID. One of the police officers pulled out a certificate. When Sergei leaned over to examine him, he was punched in the face. The blow was accompanied by a replica: “Oh, you don’t respect the major!”. Oleinik is a strong man, he stood on his feet. The attacker did not expect. The major bounced off the driver about five meters. To Oleinik’s question: “Well, why did you hit me?” - shouted: “And you wanted to take away my certificate!”. Trucker Sergey remembers further events vaguely:

“They kicked me, but I passed out and didn’t feel anything… Why didn’t I run away from them?” I was afraid. I think: the main thing is not to leave, otherwise they will kill you. They were very drunk. I did not believe until the last moment that it was the police ... One led me. And the other was driving in the back of the 99th with tinted windows.

Sergei's doubts were dispelled already in the department itself. There he learned the names of the attackers - Maxim Frolov and Nikolai Khoryakov. He also found out that he had a deadline. Articles to Sergei Pavlovich were kindly voiced:

- Frolov still shows his own: “Look, there is blood on my face. So he hit me! Clean article! Resistance to the authorities! I'm still in shock, I don't understand. I show them my hands - look, my hands are not knocked down. And then I think: “Fuck ... TV! So they will knock my hands off now. ” He quickly hid them behind his back.

Sergei Oleinik was released from the department. His wife and brothers followed him. After…

And "then" is still going on. The consequences of one evening stretched out for four years. Sergei Oleinik became a disabled person of the third group "without the right to drive." He sold half of his property to pay for treatment and lawyers and somehow support his family. He spent almost six months in the hospital. And for the same amount of time he tried to find the truth with his brothers. And the truth was never found. There were many lies. There was investigator Kiryukov, who “did not find any evidence” and sent refusals to the prosecutor's office. He wrote with his own hand "notes of an eyewitness." The eyewitness Phillipov did not agree with the fact that "according to his words it was written down correctly". Under the protocol of interrogation, he added with his own hand: “The investigator did not write down what I said. Oleinik and his friend were not drunk, they did not swear. There was no resistance to the policemen." After Kiryukov, there was investigator Nelidov, a former subordinate of the accused Frolov and Khoryakov. Nelidov supplied false witnesses. One of them, Khavroshechkin, subsequently admitted that “I am disabled, and my disease is associated with memory loss for past events.” Another - Popov - said that he was afraid of punishment, as he was stealing state-owned aluminum, for which he was caught. And his testimony was paid off ... The versions that were put forward by the investigation were more absurd than one another. For example, it was indicated that Oleinik received all his injuries by falling on a sewer manhole. Oleinik himself comments on this as follows:

- Well, I can understand that falling on this hatch, you can get a head injury. But, excuse me, how can I beat off the genitals about him?! Very difficult! Even if I do the twine.

But the investigators insisted on this version and sent walkers to Oleinik in the hospital.

- Employees came to me many times, tried to make me withdraw the application. They said that Khoryakov is good. He has a career. Well, damn it, if you have a career, then why are you trying to beat people up?

But Sergei Pavlovich and his brothers did not give up. Six months later, they turned to the Committee against Torture. The committee got down to business. Yulia Kirsanova, deputy chairman of the committee, said: “It is a common practice that such cases take a long time. That’s what they expect people to give up, get tired and stop looking for the truth.” The chronology of the Oleinik case confirms the words of Yulia Kirsanova. No one could have handled this red tape alone.

Timeline of the case

December 2000 The Kanavinskaya prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case on the fact of beating S.P. Oleinik by employees of the Kanavinsky District Department of Internal Affairs. The case was entrusted to investigator O.V. Kiryukov. At the same time, the Kanavinskaya prosecutor's office initiated another criminal case under article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Hooliganism”) against Oleinik. The investigation was also entrusted to Kiryukov O.V. The cases were combined in one production.

May 2001 Investigator Kiryukov stopped the criminal case against Oleinik and issued a decision to dismiss the case based on Oleinik's complaint.

September 2001. Kiryukov's decision to dismiss the case was canceled by the Nizhny Novgorod prosecutor's office.

October 2001. Kiryukov re-issued a decision to close the criminal case.

December 2001. The prosecutor again canceled Kiryukov's decision.

January 2002. Kiryukov again ruled to dismiss the case.

February 2002. The prosecutor's office rejected investigator Kiryukov's decision. The case was entrusted to investigator Smotrakov.

April 2002. Smotrakov issued a decision to close the criminal case.

May 2002. The prosecutor's office canceled Smotrakov's decision.

August 2002. Khoryakov was charged…

Further, with approximately the same frequency, they tried to accuse Frolov. At first he was "searched" for a long time. Although everyone knew that Frolov lived quietly at the registration address and even answered phone calls. After several complaints and negotiations between the committee and the prosecutor's office, in April 2004 Frolov was nevertheless charged.

Criminal case on the fact of beating S.P. Oleinik by employees of the Nizhny Novgorod District Department of Internal Affairs lasted 3 years and 9 months.

Nikolay Khoryakov. On May 28, 2003, he was found guilty of a crime. He was given a five-year suspended sentence. And the deprivation of the right to hold positions in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for two years. As a mitigating circumstance, the court recognized that Khoryakov, after committing the crime, did not beat anyone else and behaved decently. During the investigation, Khoryakov managed to reach retirement. Now he sells clothes at the Meshchersky market in Nizhny Novgorod.

Maxim Frolov. On August 23, 2004, he was found guilty of a crime. They were sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence. He retired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2001. According to available data, he is engaged in small business. Lives with his mother in Nizhny Novgorod.

Mikhail Nelidov. On May 28, 2003, he was found guilty of a crime. His sentence is three years probation. Nelidov's case was complicated by one circumstance. In 2001 investigator Nelidov was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison in connection with the murder. In the spring of 2001, a story was broadcast on the local TV channel, where operational footage of the investigative experiment was shown. On the film, Nelidov showed where he had buried the corpse, and explained the essence of what had happened. After the trial, Nelidov was sent to a colony in the Orenburg region. A year later, the presence of Mikhail Nelidov was required in Nizhny Novgorod in the Oleinik case. However, from Orenburg they reported that "Nelidov is on his deathbed and we cannot transport him to Nizhny". A few months later, Sergei Oleinik met him by chance on Nizhny Street. They say that now he works as a security guard in the city's entertainment complex.

Sergei Pavlovich Oleinik. Has passed or has taken place long course of treatment. The commission recognized him as a disabled person of the third group. For a long time he could not work in his specialty, both because of physical injuries and because of his emotional state. He admits that he still enters the entrance, throwing his hand forward in case of a sudden attack. Cannot communicate with people in uniform. Even a classmate who serves in the police asks to change clothes at meetings. Some time ago I returned to the profession. However, flights are difficult, "every 60 km you have to make stops." Lives with his wife and two daughters - 16 and 19 years old - in Nizhny Novgorod. Now he is a plaintiff in a civil case for material damages by the state. The state promises to pay 2,000 rubles. On principle, I decided to finish the job.