The renaming, or rather, the replacement of one word (so as not to change the completely tucking abbreviation), was assumed by everyone who at least once saw riot police in action, the essence of mobile fighters did not change. At least - during their work in sports competitions. Previously, riot police was called the "special forces detachment", now - "Squad Mobile Special Purpose. This is how this mobility is implemented in practice.
Last summer, riot policemen sincerely worked at the matches of the Russian football Premier League. The culmination of this “mobility” was
the attack by the riot police on the player of Zenit Danko Lazovich , who, according to the player himself, received a stab with a stormhoker. True, riot police denied everything, and the case was "lowered on the brakes." True, in Nizhny Novgorod, OMON was forbidden to appear at football matches.
So! Sport in Russia does not end with football. There is such an excellent event, a pot of hockey with a ball. In the same Nizhny Novgorod there is a Start team, which the other day met with the leader of the Russian Championship Krasnogorsk "Zorki". About 4.5 thousand people came to this match, of which about 70 people were guests fans. Two of them decided to support their team with lit fires. The riot police sensed that there was a chance to distinguish, beat the fans with batons and legs and sent them to the local police station.
Probably, alcohol will also be found in the blood of the beaten "fireists". I remember that back in Soviet times I visited the match with the ball in Kemerovo. To stand in the cold for two hours is not a simple thing, and when the fans on the rostrum treated me to a strong glass, I repent, I could not stand it, I drank it and calmly watched the game to the end. Hockey with a ball is a winter sport, matches are played, mainly on the street, in the cold ... draw conclusions yourself. The question is different: in accordance with the "amount of power" and "number of offenses." Fans sometimes behave in the most hooligan way. But
riot police very often demonstrates combat skills completely out of case . Yes, and fans on hockey with a ball are usually much calmer and reliable than their football colleagues.
But riot police, apparently, as in a not very decent joke about Holmes and Watson, can no longer without batons ...
Did you know that the fans in Russia Nizhny Novgorod have been called "OMON-City" since the 90s?