The ICR’s press service has published a video from the place of the brutal reprisal against the employee of the Center for Countering Corruption, Dmitry Gribov (shown above). According to the investigators, in the Voskresensky District, the Moscow Region, two masked men attacked Gribov and beat him, presumably with bats (or iron rods). A few hours later, the activist died in the hospital from his injuries.
https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/video-from-scene-of-cruel-reprisals-against-center-for-countering-corruption-employee-transpires-on-/
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5-5-18 MOSCOW — Thousands of people on Saturday marked President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming fourth inauguration with street protests across Russia, defying a heavy police presence that detained more than 1,600 demonstrators.
Police dragged the organizer, 41-year-old opposition leader Alexei Navalny, out of the Moscow rally by his arms and ankles minutes after he arrived. Protesters packed Pushkin Square in the center of the city nevertheless, and they were met by columns of riot police who charged into the crowd to try to disperse it.
Across the country, 1,612 people were detained in 26 cities, with more than 700 in the capital alone, according to the protest-monitoring website OVD-Info. “They’re even worse than bandits — the people in power have made this country unfit for living,” said Natalia Znaminskaya, 58, editor of a regional journal in the Moscow suburbs. “No one can survive with these salaries and in this environment.”
Navalny’s team organized 90 protests across the country, dubbing them “He is not our czar,” a reference to Putin, who was first elected president in 2000 and is already Russia’s longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/thousands-of-russians-rally-against-putin-ahead-of-inauguration/2018/05/05/3007a9a2-503d-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?utm_term=.4e4402c770f2
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4-4-2017 At the moment at least five people have already been arrested in Moscow and placed in the pre-trial detention centers as part of the investigations of several criminal cases related to the events of March 26. They face serious prison terms, up to life imprisonment. There are also many accused individuals in separate incidents related to anti-corruption actions and ongoing protests in at least four other Russian cities.
Unfortunately this is not the whole story. The analysis of daily data collected by OVD-Info allows us to state unambiguously: the law enforcement agencies are deliberately engaged in pressure on detainees and arrested persons in order to prepare evidence for a criminal case with a possibility to bring an accusation against any participant of the event. The investigation already initiated by the Investigative Committee can impact hundreds and thousands of people, dozens of people can be arrested. Oncoming criminal case can turn into the most ambitious political crackdown in the modern history of Russia.
In many cities the actions ended up with detentions — over 1500 people were under police custody. At least 1043 of them were arrested in Moscow, in Tverskaya street and in the environs. The arrests were made in rough manner, with the use of physical violence and severe means of bodily restraint, a visible contrast to the peaceful nature of the action. Moreover, police arrested over 70 persons under 18 years of age. During arrests and in transit to police stations many participants were beat up by police officers. https://ovdinfo.org/articles/2017/04/24/repressive-measures-against-anti-corruption-action-march-26th-2017
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10-16-17 An official who is unhappy with his financial operator can get him jailed. Naturally, the operator doesn’t manage money for just one person. He has several clients, who often know about one another, and if one of them puts him in jail, all of them lose their money. Will the others blame the one who put their operator behind bars? Oddly enough—no.
The “owner” of the money doesn’t need anyone’s approval to punish his money man. It is assumed that the other clients will go after their own money themselves—after all, the operator should still have some assets left. They are expected to use their connections in the penitentiary system, the FSB, and other agencies to solve their own problems, because they took their own risks.
Very little will change with
But why preserve Russia’s medieval penitentiary system with its cruel treatment of inmates? Why not dismantle it completely and replace it with a normal, contemporary service? I put these naive questions to a retired law enforcement officer who wanted to remain anonymous.
The officer countered that other Russian ministries—of education, health, or transportation—were no better, and that their record of embezzlement of state funds was just as bad. As for “the billionaire Korshunov,” the officer reckons that he will serve some time and then “everything will be OK,” he will get back much of what he owned. “Eventually, he may even get back his yachts, apartments, watches and cash. The prison system will hang on to these for a bit but then return them. There will probably be a lawsuit, but he’ll figure something out.” It is to Korshunov’s advantage, the officer said, that those who are supposed to investigate him probably have yachts of their own. Korshunov, he predicted, would probably manage to get himself released on parole. “He will manage.” The system, in other words, is still stronger than the attempts to punish illegality. https://carnegie.ru/commentary/73422
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