Students of the oil college in Ukhta were removed from classes for exercises to disperse rallies

On May 5, students of the Ukhta Mining and Oil College were taken to an exercise to disperse rallies. This is reported by the publication 7 × 7 with reference to a message in the public "Ukhta and its cars" in the social network "VKontakte".

The author of the message wrote that the students were given posters, asked to "shout anti-government slogans", and the police practiced actions to disperse the action.

“They used force, beat them with batons, threw them into a paddy wagon, there were many minors among them, not only were they removed from classes, many were lightly dressed and they were kept there for two hours,” 7x7 quotes the message.

The college confirmed to the BNK agency that there was such a “training”, but “it was not as indicated in the message” on the social network.

“In May 2016, a cooperation agreement was concluded between USTU, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Komi and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Ukhta. As part of the agreement yesterday, we did release 35 students to the police with their consent. They were accompanied by two life safety instructors. The police on their vehicles delivered the students to the location of the patrol service company on Zavodskaya, 11, where they trained to disperse an unauthorized rally according to the legend of the exercises, ”said representatives of the BNK college. (The news on the BNK website was deleted after a few hours, but remained in the Google cache).

correspondent, The rector of the Ukhta State Technical University (the college is a structural subdivision of USTU) Nikolay Tskhadaya, in an interview with a 7×7 called the message about the exercises "bullshit."

A man who claims to be a relative of a student who took part in the police training told 7x7 that the students were told they were being taken on a field trip. Only upon arrival, the students were informed that they would act as extras at the rally in a situation where the crowd begins to behave aggressively. The man considered the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs unethical, so he spread information about this on the social network, “so that it was the first and last time.”