How riot police were broken

How the OMON fighters were broken. All five days after the interview with the fighters of the 2nd battalion of the Moscow riot police , which they gave as amended by The New Times, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Main Directorate of Moscow tried to save the person, promising to send the authors to appeal to the Russian President to Shkkki, and the magazine and its journalists to drag around the courts. The only thing that the police authorities did not bother to do is explain this to taxpayers who pay for their activities, how they are going to fight the sale of positions, the roofing of prostitutes, the participation of people in the form, with corners and weapons in raider seizures, which was told in the editors of the riot police, and dozens in letters . The New Times closely followed the events

It began to put pressure on the fighters of the 2nd battalion of the Moscow Special Purpose Police even before the publication was released on February 1, which caused an unprecedented resonance: only more than 200 thousand people read it on The New Times.
On the day when the magazine was just giving up a printing house, on Friday January 29, a 2nd battalion was collected at the riot police in Strogin. As the sources, the battalion commander, Colonel Sergei Evtikov, repeatedly mentioned in the publication, told The New Times, he told his subordinates that he knew about contacts with the press of “individual fighters” - the names were not named. According to sources, the battalion commander promised serious troubles to those who communicate with reporters. Next week, threats were carried out - no, while no one is still sitting, although promised. But they already put on the knees: at a press conference on February 4, which the head of the Moscow riot police, Major General Haustov, spent the fighters, said that they did not sign the letters, they were not signed by the New Times, they didn’t say anything to the journalists.

"We want to talk about lawlessness"

Senior sergeant Sergey Taran and the warrant officer NN (we omit the name and surname, because he did not refuse his words) - the first for three months now he was dismissed from riot police, the second - the acting riot police - came to the editorial office on January 26. The New Times first heard their names at the conference of an independent police union. Both performed there, both talked about the hard labor everyday life of riot police, complained about their bosses. Then we approached the correspondent of The New Times, who took comments on the upcoming reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, declared by the President of Russia. Submitted and transmitted letters that were signed by the current employees of the 2nd battalion and were addressed to various high instances, including the President of the Russian Federation (photocopies of these letters were posted on the magazine website). When asked by the correspondent, whether they were ready to speak under the record, both answered in the affirmative and a few days later for almost 2 hours with the tape recorders on (which they agreed to) talked about what was happening inside this special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how they turned to their bosses with a request to restore order in their 2nd battalion: “Every time they answered that the commander (colonel Sergei Evtikov. New Times) is being condescending, because he fought, sat in an ambush, where he, maybe he wounded his head. ” Note: about a lot, what riot police told, journalists in different media, including the New Times, wrote more than once, but from the words of the victims or their lawyers. For the first time, the performers spoke about the lawlessness inside the riot police. “We want it to become known what lawlessness is going on,” the interlocutors said goodbye. And they took a picture - in the form and with medals: the ensign NN was three times in the war in Chechnya and for that was awarded.

"If a rat starts up"

The audio recording that was made in the editorial office demanded comments. The New Times appealed for them to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, they asked them to send them a copy of the appeal of OMON fighters to the president. Sent. “OMON commander will comment on you,” the editorial staff of the press service Svetlana Serkova assured the editorial office (the audio recording of this conversation is also at the disposal of The New Times). Major General Haustov commented on: “If the rat has started, then it started,” Serkov said his words. He also promised to give an interview: it was scheduled for February 2. But on this day, the general was obviously very busy: on the basis of riot police in Strogin, the general meeting of the entire Moscow riot police (a meeting of the 2nd battalion, recall, took place before the issue of the magazine number-as a reaction to the press service, we emphasized, a letter from the soldiers to the president of the country). At the general meeting, the fighters were unanimously, as the media was later reported, the publication was condemned (a corresponding application was drawn up) and announced their intention to file a court to the editorial office of The New Times. “The guys called me and talked about this meeting. According to them, there were those who tried to leave the meeting in protest, there were those who stated that everything told (in the publication) was one hundred percent truth, but they were threatened with certification, after which the inevitable dismissal would follow, ”Sergey Taran told the online publication of the newspaper. Exactly this, he repeated the New Times, adding that not all employees signed an appeal of a unanimous conviction: “For those who did not sign, the authorities put down the signatures,” said senior sergeant Taran. Yes, they almost forgot: on the day of the release of Article, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel General Sukhodolsky, promised: “As for the facts that are published in this article, they will be verified. And if in one form or another they are confirmed by which I strongly doubt, then the most stringent measures will be taken to the persons who committed these violations. ” The promised “verification” was carried out in 2 (two) hours: “The facts were not confirmed and are clearly slanderous in nature,” Grace Zhanna Zhann Zhanna Zhanna Zhanna Zhanna, two hours after the statement of General Sukhodolsky, handed over to the press.
January 26, 2010. At 11:01, Sergeant Sergey Taran and the Ensign NN entered the building, where the editorial office of The New Times is located (shooting surveillance cameras)

12:54 - Sergeant Taran and Ensign NN leave the editorial office

"Get on the shcons"

“Tomorrow they will sit on the shkka and feed (receive? - The New Times) three meals a day,” Colonel Peter Smirnov, deputy commander of the Moscow Office of the Moscow State University, gave his commentary on the authors of the OMN of the Moscow Institute of Construction. At the same time, Ilya Barabanova, who was also invited to the broadcast of The New Times, also threatened the deputy editor of The New Times: “We are also with your correspondent (so on the film. - The New Times),” said the lieutenant colonel (the video was posted on the radio station). I wonder how they will understand? Do we need to hire employees?
By the time of this broadcast on the “Echo of Moscow”, the Central Military Code of the Civil Protection and Eminth was subjected to information that the rebellious riot police were actually criminals, on whom a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of extortion from two visitors from the Caucasus of 50 thousand rubles. True, some kind of confusion with the criminal case: the leadership of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate convinces that the riot police, Andrei Struchkov and Sergey Taran (the latter, recall, one of those who gave an interview with The New Times) was fired precisely because of this offense. However, according to documents that are at the disposal of the editorial office, they were fired by the decision of the certification commission, the legitimacy of which the fighters tried to challenge in court. Moreover, it is not obvious that such a criminal case is at all: none of the dismissed riot police have yet been charged, and in the case they pass as witnesses. On the same day, the Moscow City Court rejected the cassation appeal of Sergei Taran and Alexei Volnushkin, who tried to challenge the legality of his dismissal. “We knew that our battalion commander Sergei Evtikov met several times with the judge, which they were talking about, I do not know, but this is hardly an accidental coincidence,” the judicial verdict commented. This was the last day when OMON employees allowed themselves criticism of the leadership.

"They were intimidated"

One can only guess how the interviews of the leadership of OMON and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate with the authors of the appeal went to Dmitry Medvedev and those who gave such a detailed interview to The New Times. The reliability of the facts set forth in the interview was confirmed by dozens of calls and letters, the author of one of them met with The New Times met, and his story was recorded on the tape recorder (read the material "Any special forces - this business" ) talked about the participation of riot police and police captures, and about the taxa for officers' posts, and the taxa of the taxi dash. About the roofing of prostitutes. “I myself have been resting in Strogino with girls, and they talked about my influential friends in riot police,” one of the Vesti FM state radio station, who called the state radio station, said with a laugh. But the rebellious fighters were not at all laughing. They were called to the authorities and in the department of their own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they promised that if they did not abandon their words - and they demanded to repent publicly, under the cells - then they would be dismissed or sent on a business trip to the North Caucasus, where they would shoot or put. We must pay tribute to the police leadership: they know how to break - a long -term training in fellow citizens. Someone was broken. By the evening of February 3, the leadership of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate reported that all the current fighters refused their signatures under the petition Medvedev. Moreover, the signatures are supposedly fake. On February 4, General Haustov held his famous press conference at 38 Petrovka. This is how the correspondent of the Metro newspaper (The New Times was described there (The New Times did not receive a notice of the press conference): “Did you sign a letter? - strictly ask the journalists.
- No. No. No, - the fighters say in turn.
Did you come to the editorial office of the magazine?
- No. No. No.
Arcting Protects for private individuals for money?
- No. No. No.
- Complete slander! “The commander of OMON, Major General Vyacheslav Haustov, enters with indignation.”
One of the authors of The New Times, Sergei Taran, really stated at a press conference that he was not in the editorial office and “handed it over to reporters exclusively information about his dismissal” (see the printout from the video cameras as amended by The New Times). “After the press conference, they told me that in a week they would put me anyway,” Sergey Taran said later The New Times. “And Sasha Alekseev, who tried under Haustov to talk about an irregular working day, promised that he would soon be fired.”
However, the statement of the management of riot police that all “complete slander” and that all riot police abandoned their words was a lie. The ensign NN was not present at the press conference, and his surname is not in the list of “repentants”. But from Wednesday February 3, his phone is silent, and he does not get in touch. The editors are only known that in Moscow it seems to be not. The threat is fulfilled? Warrant Officer sent to where they shoot?
“They were intimidated,” says Mikhail Pashkin, the leader of the independent police union. And once again confirmed: "All the facts - the truth - the truth presented in the article" The slaves of the riot police ".
PS a few hours before this number went into the printing house, the editorial office received a facsimile notification (see above) that the Investigative Department of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow calls the New Times to give explanations.