REVENGE FOR YOUR BROTHER

ARMY

Eighteen-year-old Mikhail Fedotov disappeared on Saturday evening July 29th. A “nine” with Volgograd numbers (E 319 BO) drove up to the entrance of his house in Lipetsk, several men in civilian clothes got out of it and pushed Mikhail into the car, ...

Eighteen-year-old Mikhail Fedotov disappeared on Saturday evening July 29th. A “nine” with Volgograd numbers (E 319 BO) drove up to the entrance of his house in Lipetsk, several men in civilian clothes got out of it and pushed Mikhail into the car, while calling him Anton.

The confusion is understandable, but only partly: Anton is Mikhail's older brother. He is 21 years old, he served in Grozny under a contract. But exactly a year ago, last August, he did not return to the unit after a vacation.

As explained later, the brothers were simply confused. But the mother of Mikhail and Anton, Natalya Alexandrovna, believes that this is a “special operation” of the military, such a “counter-taking of a hostage”, because, judging by the photographs, it is impossible to confuse the brothers.

Michael was "found" the next day. Fedotova received a call from the Southwestern Police Department of Lipetsk: "Your son is with us." Natalya Alexandrovna arrived at the district with Misha's documents - a passport and a birth certificate. Mother was allowed into the office.

- Among the men surrounding the son, there was an employee of the military registration and enlistment office. As I was later told, he was engaged in the search for deviationists and deserters, - says Natalya Fedotova. - I tried to rescue Misha, but the military man began to grab my hands and push me away. A fight broke out in front of Alexander Lobkov, an officer on duty at the police department. After the brawl, I had bruises on my wrists, a bump on my head.

Operative duty officer Lobkov confirmed to me that on July 30, the military registration and enlistment office officers and servicemen really delivered the young man.

- The military said that this is a deserter and they will send him back to the unit. Usually, the militia does not interfere in the actions of the military. And I could only watch what was happening. The mother tried to rescue her son and take him home. But she was not allowed to. There was a conflict. I received a statement from Fedotova regarding her beating in the police department by a member of the military registration and enlistment office. Whether he was drunk or sober, I don't know. Fedotova's statement was sent to the prosecutor's office of the Lipetsk military garrison.

Anton did not return to the unit

The eldest son Anton Fedotov, born in 1985, was called up in June 2004. He ended up in Bryansk. Parents with Misha went to Anton until the soldier was taken to Stavropol. Here, as Anton himself later told his parents, he was voluntarily forced to sign a contract. Under fear of physical violence, Fedotov signed the relevant papers and in January 2005 sent a message home from Grozny. In August, Anton came home on vacation, which he bought from the officers for 41,000 rubles. Vacation is over. The parents put their son on the Gryazi-Mozdok train.

On the train, Anton heard Chechen speech, his nerves gave out, and at one of the stations he got off. On the same day he returned home. Whether he was a deserter or not, the mother did not care - the main thing was that Anton was near and alive.

Unfit for service

Mikhail Fedotov did not go to the 10th grade of the 77th school for a second year of study due to illness. The former student's medical record contains a certificate stating that Mikhail Fedotov is registered with polyclinic No. 3 with a diagnosis of epilepsy.

In August last year, Mikhail was examined in the hospital and received a certificate signed by the head of the military medical institution, stating that he had "epilepsy with hyperalized and small seizures." That is, officially he was declared unfit for service in the Armed Forces.

- What army? asks Natalia Fedotova. - I even quit because my son often has seizures. The guy is irritable. We even talk quietly at home so as not to disturb Misha once again. What happened to him is some kind of wild absurdity.

Doesn't it happen?

From the South-Western police department, the mother of her son could not be released - Mikhail was taken to the prosecutor's office.

“These people had no right to do such things. After all, Misha is not a military man, says Natalya Fedotova. “An investigator from the prosecutor's office, Churilov, compared the photographs of my sons in the passports, and then said that this was not enough and a fingerprint examination was needed,” says Natalya Fedotova. - Accompanied by the same men - I already knew that they were representatives of the military unit from Grozny - Misha and I went to the building of the regional police department. Here the criminalist took Misha's fingerprints. After that, our guards said that now his prints should be compared with Anton's.

As they say, before finding out, the mother and son were escorted to the infirmary of military unit 5961. When they ended up in boxing, Fedotova saw Major Sergei Kozin, with whom her husband served. She calmed down a bit. Still, someone who knows their family. Literally for five minutes, Natalya Fedotova left the infirmary to buy water for her son at the kiosk. And when she returned, Misha was not in the infirmary, he was taken away.

“I called my cell phone, shouting “Misha!”, And someone answers me in a strange voice that it’s not Misha, but Seryozha,” says Natalya Aleksandrovna. “I thought I was going crazy. In the unit, they gave me the cell phone of the representative of the Grozny military unit 3025, Captain Nazarov. But the phone didn't answer. And Misha disappeared.

When Natalya Fedotova called the police on the telephone "02", they did not want to believe her story.

- The call ended on June 30th. Maybe a special? But with epilepsy, they will not be taken into the army ... - said the policemen. “Even if the war breaks out…

On Monday, July 31, Fedotova wrote another statement regarding the abduction of her youngest son. It was officially registered with the Oktyabrsky police department. And about. Head of the Criminal Investigation Boris Yakovenko refused to explain anything about the incident. The family also received no official response from the police. Apparently, no operational-search actions regarding the disappearance of a person were carried out? Both the military prosecutor's office and military unit 5961 refused to comment on the incident, from where the young man was taken away in an unknown direction. The representative of the military unit in Grozny, Captain Nazarov, stubbornly did not answer our phone calls.

The Fedotov family had no information about the whereabouts and state of health of their youngest son for a long time. Natalya Aleksandrovna says that the military contacted her for the first time late at night on August 10. The commander of the 46th brigade of military unit 3025, where Anton served, called home and told his parents to bring their eldest son to Chechnya. Only under such conditions will they give the younger one in return. The mother handed the phone to Mikhail's father. He openly told the brigade commander that the FSB was involved in the kidnapping of their son. Short beeps were heard on the other end of the wire ...

son of the regiment

I contacted the commander of military unit 3025, Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Skorobogatov, where Mikhail Fedotov was all this time.

“You confirm that your officers abducted a civilian?”

- No. I think an error has occurred. The brothers are very similar, - answered Alexei Alexandrovich.

- It turns out that a whole group of military and policemen could not distinguish two different people from each other?

The officers acted within the law. We have not seen a serviceman who did not return to the unit after a vacation for almost a year. During this time, a person could change outwardly, change his hairstyle. A criminal case has been initiated, he is wanted.

- And what did his brother - Mikhail - do in the unit?

- He lived with the personnel of the unit in the barracks. Mikhail freely moved around the territory of the unit.

At the same time, Aleksey Skorobogatov denied that the commander of the 46th brigade offered to exchange the eldest son for the youngest. If, nevertheless, this is so, it turns out that the servicemen took the younger brother Anton to Grozny in order to get the elder brother for him, that is, Mikhail was simply taken hostage?

By order of the prosecutor of Khankala, Eduard Allahverdiev, Mikhail Fedotov, who was not liable for military service, was sent to Lipetsk on August 10, accompanied by the same captain Nazarov. On August 13, the officer delivered the guy to the prosecutor's office of the Lipetsk military garrison.

Army life school

I met Misha at his house. Fedotov Jr. shared his impressions of the "trip" to Grozny and back.

- When my mother went to the kiosk for lemonade, three military men appeared from under the ground and pushed me into the car, Captain Alexander Nazarov was driving.

We left Lipetsk along the Tambov highway. Dear Nazarov, he asked many questions about his parents, about his older brother Anton.

“He called me either by the name of his older brother or by my own,” Mikhail continues.

The next day, the military and their captive arrived in Kalach-on-Don. Captain Nazarov said that he lives here, and placed Fedotov and two servicemen - Sergeant Alexei Sizimov and Corporal Sergei (Mikhail does not remember his last name - M.M.) - in his house. When the owner left somewhere, these two drank and went for a walk around the city, taking Fedotov with them.

The next day, says Mikhail, the sergeant and the corporal locked him in the house, and they themselves went to the beach. They returned late at night, drunk.

“The sergeant decided it was time to teach me about army life,” says Mikhail. “He hit me in the face, in the kidneys. At the command of the sergeant, I did several dozen push-ups. I didn't sleep all night.

After that night, Mikhail Fedotov broke the window and ran away. I went to the post office and asked to call the police. Mikhail saw how the police officers tied up the sergeant and the corporal and laid them face down on the ground. But soon Captain Nazarov appeared. He said that his soldiers had detained the deserter and were taking him to the unit for identification. In confirmation, he showed a search file.

“When we arrived at the unit where Anton served,” says Mikhail, “the soldiers surrounded me and began to examine me. Some said that I was not Anton, but very similar to him, others said that Anton was taller. My brother's best army friend didn't recognize Anton in me. The soldiers laughed, and the officers quite seriously said that I had plastic surgery, changed my hairstyle. I was told that to be convincing I should put on a soldier's uniform and have my hair cut. But it didn't come to that.

For three days, Fedotov Jr. lived in the barracks. He was interrogated by the prosecutor, who said that if he is not who he claims to be, he will end up in a disbat for five years. When, after all the ordeals, Mikhail was allowed to talk on the phone with his mother and he heard his native voice, he could not restrain himself and burst into tears.

The road home turned out to be longer, because Captain Nazarov, together with the released hostage, drove to Khoroshevka, the village where Misha's godfather lives. I hoped to find Anton there.

“But there was no brother in the village,” says Mikhail. “If my parents hadn’t been looking for me, I think that instead of Anton, I would have remained in this unit to serve. The military has its own laws.

"Abduction of a person by a group of persons"

Elena Kolyazhenkova, deputy head of the Lipetsk regional public human rights organization Kovcheg, believes that the actions of military personnel in relation to Mikhail Fedotov can be qualified under part two of paragraph "a" of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "abduction of a person by a group of persons by prior agreement" (from 6 up to 15 years in prison).

- It is also worth adding, - says Elena Kolyazhenkova, - that the abduction of a person was committed with a threat to his life and health. Violated the right to life, health protection, the presumption of innocence. By law, the military did not have the right to detain a civilian at all. In addition, the guy has a very serious illness, and it is not known what this “journey” to Chechnya and back will cost him. I think the Fedotovs need to file an application with the prosecutor's office to initiate a criminal case.

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NIGERIAN SYNDROME

Our military are looking for their fighters all over Russia: for the first six months, army youth, according to tradition, must be "taught", but they do not like massacre. And the boys scatter like cockroaches across our untidy country. But with all due respect to inventive brains, sometimes arranging full-fledged operational combinations for the sake of deserters, I have to report that the authorities did not bring much creativity into the search business. All this is a normal medieval practice in many countries.

In the spring of 1985, one of the planned raids on conscripts for the People's Army of friendly Afghanistan took place in the central market of Kabul. Among dozens of young men, a Soviet civilian interpreter, the son of a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, was caught and placed in a “dog trap”. He worked under the contract of the USSR with the government of Babrak Karmal.

The draft in democratic Afghanistan went like this. Cars for catching dogs drove around the country, where they pushed all the guys they met. At a special point, in the presence of the military, the captured presented documents that they had already completed their service. And they were released. Those who did not have papers received uniforms and went to war under escort.

All young people under 30 years old, that is, half of the country, wore a saving certificate in their breast pocket. The original, is not it - the main thing is to be. Our translator had no reference. He shouted and waved his hands in excitement. In vain.

When checking, it turned out that the young man is a Turkmen, but he hardly speaks Russian, and does not speak Dari or Pashto at all. Yes, and in Turkmen murmurs uncertainly. Such interpreters, assigned to Kabul under patronage, were called Chingachgooks among us.

Through the local Turkmens, they talked to the arrogant young man, beat him a little with a stick and assigned him to be a batman. Orderlies in the DRA army boiled the samovar, served tea, cleaned officers' boots and did a lot of laundry. At night, Afghan commanders cut off from their families by the war used them instead of wives.

For the first week, Chingachguk, as the heir to the Central Committee of the Turkmen Communists, did not want to erase. He was regularly beaten with a special stick, and he walked all blue. Until I learned to wash, well, everything else.

And the Soviet government has already announced a search for the unfortunate: dad was very worried. Portraits of the fugitive hung all around, the special officers were knocked off their feet, and he lit the samovar all the time. Only six months later he learned the cherished phrase in Russian: “I am a Soviet specialist, I was mistakenly taken to the Afghan army, urgently report me to the USSR embassy, ​​I beg you” - and threw himself under the wheels of a UAZ passing by with Soviet officers. They marveled at him, but called the special department. The translator from Turkmen to Turkmen was rescued.

The conclusions are obvious: the story of the kidnapping of Mikhail Fedotov is in the same line. Something should be taken into account.

1. In wild Afghanistan, there was a magic certificate from the unit commander that a citizen had served his time. It would be nice to have the same one. And you don’t have to pay for a vacation, but immediately for a certificate.

2. The Lipetsk police were obliged to establish the identity of Mikhail. She didn't. So, it is necessary to exclude the cops from the search. It'll be cheaper.

3. The described case is the norm for Pakistan, Syria or Nigeria. I personally prefer the Czech Republic, although no one asks me. But then our laws should be simplified. What are civil rights in Nigeria? There are no citizens there, only subjects.