A police officer near Moscow said that he quit after the order to “disperse the rally” in January
Nikolai Korolev, a former employee of the Canine Service Center of the Balashikhinskoe Municipal Internal Affairs Ministry, told Project that he resigned from the department after being ordered to work at the rally on January 23. The policeman explained that on December 29, 2020, he wrote a letter of resignation and had to work for another month. “On the 22nd, my boss told me that I had to go out to reinforcement, which automatically meant going to a rally. I refused to do this.