Level of culture and atrocities

In Moscow, after the police raid, the Rabitsa closed-the best techno-club of the city

On Monday, August 21, representatives of the Moscow Techno-Club Rabitsa reported that it was closing. Two weeks ago, the police held an anti -drug raid in the club: law enforcement officers beat visitors and broke the scenery; A criminal case was opened on one of the founders of Rabitsa. "Medusa" says what happened to the "rabits" - and how this could be associated with other canceled festivals and dance events.

On the evening of August 21, the Moscow Club Rabitsa announced its closure by publishing an application on the official Facebook page. “Despite all our love, which is filled with Rabitsa, we are forced to close the club, the decision is dictated by an elementary consideration of security that we cannot guarantee our guests at events at this address,” the club said. Now the club is sealed, employees cannot get into its premises. They expect that lawyers will help to return the equipment seized "without any reason by law enforcement officials."

“Rabitsa”, which opened in the summer of 2016 in the territory of the Aviator plant, is called the main rave club of Moscow; Until recently, people came there on Friday evening to leave on Sunday. The space of the "rabitsa" was decorated with Fedor Miller, who was also an art director of the Outline festival abolished in the summer of 2016. According to the club promoter and co -founder of the Solyanka club Sergey Sergeyev, Rabitsa was a unique place. “This place dictated by fashion, and not borrowed it somewhere else. It was a source of inspiration, ”Sergeyev said Medusa.

The police raid was held in Rabitsa on the morning of August 6, when the club was held in the club “Rabitsa slaves”; Employees of the power department beat visitors and broke the scenery. There were about ten police officers, they were in civilian clothes. The raid also passed outside the walls of the club: according to eyewitnesses, the police searched for cars, their drivers and passengers standing near the club.

The editor of The Village, Nastya Macosta, who was in the Club’s courtyard, said: “The first to tie to the ground and beat the club guards, then they were handcuffed. Employees of the bodies applied violence to everyone indiscriminately, pushed and shouted. My friend-Dijei fell to the ground one of the employees and began to beat his feet on the head, lifted him and threw him on the floor. " The video shows how people in civilian clothes rudely pushing people in the club. The police detained the co -founders of the club and two visitors. After the trial, everyone was released except co -founder Ivan Radzievsky.

During the raid, Radzievsky found drugs. “During a personal search in his trouser pockets, he found amphetamine and [synthetic drug] Mephedron weighing a little more than one gram,” the police said . A criminal case was instituted against the promoter under the 228th article of the Criminal Code. Now Radzievsky is under the subscription about the wizard.

The raid in Rabitsa is not the first incident, as a result of which the authorities close dance establishments and festivals. So, in May 2017, the ARMA17 promotional group announced the cessation of work in Russia-because of the “series of interpretations, festivals and parties, torn a few hours before the start of events” (we are talking about the abolition of Outline and Data events in 2016; festivals did not take place due to the warnings of the prosecutor's office).

The art director of the 16 Ton club Pavel Kamakin told Meduza that he did not consider the closure of “Rabitsa” “an unprecedented story”. “Simply [authorities] began to pay more attention to events in Moscow - and in general in cities. Previously, some initiatives remained unnoticed due to the carelessness of the city authorities, ”he explained.

“There were clubs that had problems with the police. These problems were solved, the club continued to work. Why did Rabitsa stop working? No one knows - and does not know, ”Kamakin continues. “The closure of any club is a decision of management related to a whole fan of different circumstances.”

“I’m not sure that people who closed“ Rabitsa ”know about the existence, for example,“ Army ”. There is no such single demon, ”says the promoter Sergeyev. - This is just the level of culture and atrocities of specific people. And different mood. Maybe they would have come to Rabitsa three days later - and a particular police officer would show less cruelty. The same thing happened in the 1990s, in the 2000s. It seems to this new generation that this happens only with them. But it was always like that. It is clear that in the minds of [police] people who go to Rabitsa are class enemies, they are pumped up for this. Their rather limited horizons does not allow to see the phenomenon of culture in this, they consider this [clubs, rave-festival] a brothel. "

“Creative groups that make interesting, cool events need to hire people who will communicate with the state, explain in their language that this is a youth initiative, it is not a threat of public security,” Kamakin believes. - And then everything will be okay! "

The leadership of Rabitsa and the club employees refused to talk with Medusa.

Evgeny Berg