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Summary


Thus, all the participants’ evidence together with the video and photos clearly show that at the very beginning of the clashes, the police, in spite of its direct basic purposes, did not take any steps to ensure the safety of the citizens. Quite on the contrary, the actions of the police officers endangered the life and health of the participants of the approved peaceful demonstration.

A totally inadequate and excessive use of force and special equipment was of a repressive nature and was not caused by the actual situation.

The severity of the police and the OMON agents led to numerous injuries of the demonstrators. The severity, randomness and absence of reasons for most detentions, followed by direct violations of the law by the police, as long as beating of evidently helpless and unarmed citizens (elderly people and women), and blocking exits from the meeting, creating a crush, with many victims, and provocative behaviour of the OMON agents – this all taken together preconditioned the conflict escalation, rather than for its resolution and termination. Only the exceptional restraint and responsibility of the majority of the demonstrators who not allowed themselves to be drawn into a violent confrontation with the police forces allowed to prevent separate clashes from escalating into the unpredictable slaughter.

Moreover, the participants’ evidence and other materials, which discovered by the Public Investigation give strong reasons to believe that the clashes were provoked deliberately by the provokers introduced into the crowd of peaceful demonstrators, who were controlled and guided by the operatives in civilian clothes, perhaps from the security forces.

This situation let us raise the question of the direct responsibility of the authorities in power for the nature of the events.

4.2.7 Refusal in Medical Aid


A large number of injured detainees were refused to be taken care of after the detention. There is much evidence to that:

PE No. 196 “The prison truck was divided into two parts with an impenetrable metallic partition. There were 12 detainees in my part. One of them, a young man felt ill and sick. It can be assumed that he had a brain concussion, but he did not remember if he had been beaten on his head or not. I know, what the name of that man was, but I can’t say his name in the court without his consent. The police did not react to our requirements to provide him with medical care. We spent about three hours and a half in the prison truck. Firstly the truck was standing near Bolotnaya Square, and then for some time it was moving around the city. Then another hour and a half it was standing near the Dorogomilovo Internal Affairs Department. At that time, a guy with a suspected concussion of the brain was taken by the ambulance, called by the Internal Affairs Department officers on our demand”;

PE No. 364 “There was a man with concussion of the brain in the prison truck. We demanded to call the ambulance, but were roughly refused. We spent for about two hours in a prison truck; for all that time the man was having nausea”.

Meanwhile, according to clause 4, Art. 19. of the Law On the Police Forces, “police officials must provide first aid to the people who were subject to the use of physical force, special equipment or firearms, and take all the necessary measures to provide it as quickly as possible”. Refusal to assist people with evident signs of a serious injury is a direct violation of the law.

According to the Centre for Emergency Medicine information, on May 6, 53 people were delivered to the hospitals in Moscow (only 3 of them were police officers), including 11 persons with craniocerebral injuries, 18 persons - with a brain concussions, 16 persons with bruised wounds of the head, 1 person with an elbow joint fracture. As can be seen from the evidence and medical records, many people were brought to the hospitals from Internal Affairs Departments or courts only the next day, i.e. the number of victims was much greater. No legal proceedings regarding beating have been initiated by the Prosecutor's Office.

4.2.8 Detentions


More than 600 people were detained on May 6, 2012.

First detentions began immediately after the so-called breakthrough where the demonstrators took part unwillingly but under the pressure of the masses that forced them out. The detentions were made roughly; people were laid their face down. Those who tried to say something were smashed on the ground and then dragged on the pavement and pushed into a prison truck (participants’ evidence Nos. 13, 53, 396).



PE No. 396 “I was detained in the square around the Udarnik cinema hall at about 5:45 PM. I stood apart from a group of people, I didn’t shout, I didn’t carry any posters. Two uniformed men ran up to me from behind and one of them shouted: “Grab him”. They seized me by the arms, put armlocks on me and dragged me to the prison truck. They didn’t introduce themselves, didn’t show their identity cards and didn’t explain the reason for my arrest. I didn’t see official badges on their form. I was dragged to a prison truck (Kamaz) and handed over to an employee of the 2nd OPP (Community Police Office). The employees of the 2nd OPP pushed me into the prison truck. There were already about 20 detainees. Then 4 more people were pushed in the prison truck. Then we were taken to the North Izmailovo police station. Igor Borisovich Chubais was together with us in this prison truck”.

People tried to remind the police officers and the OMON soldiers of the Law on the Police Force. Section 2, the Principles Underlying the Activities of the Police (Article 4, clause 1) states that a police officer shall “state their position, rank and surname, show their service identity document if requested by the citizen, and thereafter announce the reason and purpose of the address”. Clause 2 of article 4 emphasizes that “if the measures are applied to the citizen whereby their rights and freedoms are restricted, shall explain to the citizen the reasons and the grounds for the use of such measures and also the rights and duties of the citizen rising in connection thereto”.



However, mentioning the Law on the Police Force provoked even greater aggression on the part of the OMON agents. The police officers didn’t respond to the people's questions about the reasons for their detention. The police officers and the OMON soldiers were not wearing any identification. Those who tried to appeal to the Constitution of the Russian Federation were detained with an extreme atrocity. Besides, they were beating not only the detained, but also those who stood next to the detainees:

PE No. 97 “When I turned around, I saw that one of the OMON agents caught up with some guy, struck him to the ground and began to baton him kneestanding on his back. He hit him twice. I asked a police officer to show his identification card and badge and to explain the reason for such abusive treatment of the citizen. I showed him Federal Law On the Police Force I was holding. One of the police officers came up to me from behind, grabbed me by the arm and tried to twist it but he was unable do that. After that, the second officer came up and grabbed me by the other arm. I told them that I was not going to resist, but according to the Law on the Police Force they should introduce themselves, show their documents and explain the reason for my detention. One of them did not say anything; the second one introduced himself as Pupkin and tried to wring my hand a couple of times, but did not manage to do it. I was brought to a prison truck, next to which police officers with badges were standing. I requested them to stop the lawlessness of the police officers and to provide their personal information. All the police officers with the badges immediately made off. After that, the two officers who brought me inspected my things without witnesses. The police officers were wearing helmets and sun glasses but no badges, so that it was impossible to identify them. After that, I was pushed into the prison truck. The prison truck stood at the Bolotnaya Square up to 8:40 p.m. and then it came to the police station near the Rechnoy Vokzal underground station. There were 21 people in the prison truck, two of whom were from St. Petersburg. The protocol was drawn up and then (at 11:40 p.m.) I left the police station. The protocols were drawn up by the other people than those who made detentions”;

PE No. 118 “Personally I didn’t even throw anything, nor did I show any signs of aggression, I even said I would go without assistance so that they didn’t wring my hands, then the joint was aching for two weeks, I could barely move my hand. I asked them to introduce themselves, to show an identification card, explain the reason for my detention, etc. There was no reaction, only toilet talk. The same was in a prison truck – they didn’t answered any questions, did not show any documents, did not respond to any requests”;

PE No. 508 “There were numerous attacks in the form of raids, OMON soldiers charged into the crowd and caught people who just shouted “Shame” slogans one after another. The people just standing were also caught.”

At the same time, the OMON agents did not pay attention even to the status of a public observer. Public observers fulfilling their civic duty also were abused and detained:



PE No. 457 “I was in among the detained, although at the moment of the detention several times I loudly told to the police officer that I was a public observer. Apart from that, I was wearing a big badge of the public observer. The police officers who made arrests refused to introduce themselves and explain the reasons for the detention. As a result of a hard painful hold my right arm was injured”.

Most of the arrests occurred on Maly Kamenny Bridge and on Bolotnaya Square.

The OMON methods of capture of the event participants were the same: a group of 5 to 15 of the OMON agents lined up in the V-form. In rows on the sides of the groups, each of the OMON agents held one hand on the shoulder of the agent standing in front of him and in the other hand holding a rubber truncheon ready to use.

Such grouping allowed to penetrate easily into the demonstrators’ ranks and strike the protesters along the path. The invasion ended with the capture of one or two people without any motivation and explanation of the grounds of detention. The OMON soldiers twisted the arms of young and middle-aged men and even women, then brought them in such a position (with hands on back) to the prison trucks and literally pushed into prison trucks.



The people did not understand why they were detained. Those who tried to resist were subjected to severe beatings. As a rule, they were dragged by hands and feet on the pavement and beaten (participants’ evidence Nos. 17, 20, 22, 30, 34, 32, 38, 49, 50, 51, 58, 61, 71, 81, 89, 93, 101, 103, № 105, 106, 109, 112, 114, 119, 120, etc.):

PE No. 477 “The police officers dragged some people on the pavement beating and kicking their bodies along the path. The people resisted, did not let beating themselves for no reason, they grasped their friends whom the police tried to detain”;

PE No. 71 “Strange things began to happen on the corner near the Udarnik cinema hall. We were forced back to the embankment. Since many people knew a rough plan of the event they said that the territory was reduced. But we did not understand why. On the corner, as I have said, our movement was narrowed and we were moving very slowly that resulted in a jam. In order not to crush the people around many people came up to the cordon and asked to widen the space. I did not reach the frames. I stayed on the corner till the end of the dispersion. My friends were beaten with truncheons for no reason and pulled one by one out of the masses.”;

PE No. 103 “Some OMON soldiers ran up with rubber truncheons, roughly grabbed the man who was the closest to them and took him away forcing to bend his head down and putting his hands behind his back. Some people could not walk in fright, so they were dragged by two OMON agents, their feet dragging on the ground. Another OMON agent or two would cover them up although the demonstrators did not take up any action, the people were just screaming.”;

PE No. 114 “In my presence the police knocked down a woman about 80 years old, the men who rushed to help her up were hit with batons, several of them were captured and pushed to the Udarnik cinema hall”;

PE No. 120 “A flimsy boy was caught. He stood one and a half meter away from me and looked like Harry Potter. The boy was scared. It was evident but he stayed in the front row for some reason until someone of the policemen began to twist his hands. This boy did nothing. He didn’t even shout although the people who were standing around screamed: “Murderers!”, “Fascists!”, “Russia without Putin!” Some girl was tied up; they hit her hand with a truncheon. A boy (probably her boyfriend) ran out and began to grasp the police officers by the hand trying to prevent them from beating her. They threw him down, twisted his arms and dragged him together with her to the prison truck. His father stood up for his son: he jumped on the policeman’s back who twisted his son and rescued his boy. He was ordinary man wearing glasses. He looked like an engineer. He took the baton away from the policeman. Three OMON soldiers rushed to him. He was kicked several times, but the people dragged him by the arm to the crowd, hid and saved him. And he saved his son. He is just a hero.”

PE No. 190 “Then, when I was caught and dragged past the ranks of other standing police officers who hit me with batons on the legs and buttocks. After that I was taken back forward, so I could barely walk not falling on my back. I said to the OMON soldiers who dragged me that they committed a crime under Article 149, but they didn’t pay attention to that and dragged me to the bus without giving me a chance to stand on my own feet. They pushed me into the door, putting my head down for some reason. Then some hits followed in my back, they believed, apparently, that it would help me get into the office for the detainees on my hands”;

PE No. 195 “Twice I tried to stop illegal detention, grabbing a detainee and not letting him off. For the first time the OMON agent hit me with a baton on the right forearm, for the second time he knocked me down with a kick”;

PE No. 250 “In my presence a pensioner fell on the pavement from a heart attack. Her teenage son was snapped out of her hands. Right in front of her eyes he was beaten and dragged on the pavement. My friend and me ran to a nearby café to get some water and the pills for her”;

PE No. 284 “My friend with whom I came to the meeting was detained. She was detained because she rushed to defend a boy was dragged face down. There is a Degunino Internal Affairs Department detention report”;

PE No. 472 “The police officers in helmets and armor lined up in rows of 5 to7 fighters, chose a victim to arrest, crashed into the crowd, snatched this victim and dragged to a prison truck”;

PE No. 518 “I came with the Victory banner. I was walking in front of the orchestra. The jam began and I was pushed out of the police cordon, the police colonel ran to me and torn the banner and hit me in my face and stomach. I was lying on the ground but he did not let me get up, then two OMON soldiers ran up to me and dragged me to the prison truck. I was brought to Khamovniki department, my passport was taken away, then I was forced to sign some documents, then they took my fingerprints and took photos. They did not react to my request to provide medical care. They held me up to 8 pm on May 3... I visited the emergency room only in Tula where the doctor registered chest bruise”;

PE No. 449 “If a person was trying to find out why he was taken away, the police would use brutal force, batons and take away people at random”;

PE No. 480 “I saw 20 to 30 people detained. The police officers simply grabbed them by the arms and legs, some of them were beaten without explanation”;

PE No. 482 “The OMON agents grabbed a guy, knocked him down and wanted to drag him but a girl seized the guy. The police couldn’t drag two people on the pavement. Then one of the OMON soldiers ran up to me and yelled: “Get down, bitch”, tried to grab me by the neck but I evaded, he saw that the detachment stepped back and also went away”;

PE No. 470 “I saw how two OMON soldiers were beating up with batons a young boy. He tried to hide from them with his hands because there was nowhere to run, while turning his back to the batons seemed even worse. One of them, who was closer to the guy, sat down and from behind of his colleague’s back grabbed the guy by the bottom of the pants and pulled on himself. The guy fell on the pavement and hit so that he actually fainted. His head was bleeding. The group of OMON soldiers picked him up and carried towards the cordon”.

The people came to an approved event hoping that everything would be as usual, as it was in the Bolotnaya Square on the 4th of February, as it was on Sakharov Avenue. In fact, the people were trapped. Judging by the actions of the OMON soldiers, the decisive argument for the detentions was the fact of mere presence on the square. It is clear (and subsequently many participants admitted that fact) that the police could detain anyone who happened to come in the sight of the OMON. Unarmed civilians were involved in conflicts with the police and the OMON soldiers against their will. The police not only failed to prevent the conflict, but on the contrary raised the tension by their aggressive actions. Cruel actions against unarmed civilians, sometimes a clear aggression on the part of the OMON soldiers, cannot help causing a response. People did not attack the authorities, they were forced to defend themselves and their intimates from the blows and sometimes just to cover other people lying on the pavement with their bodies:



PE No. 126 “I affirm that the detentions were carried out at random, it means that any of the participants of the meeting could be on the detainees’ place. In my presence the police took a girl with a placard in her hands off the fence, tied and took her to a prison truck. Then they pulled a boy out of the crowd and poked him on the face so that the boy probably got a very serious injury, he lost coordination, his head unnaturally leaned back, someone of the crowd picked him up and tried to carry off the battlefield ... It must be noted that this armed attack on civilians occurred at the time and place defined for a peaceful meeting by the authorities”;

PE No. 158 “My wife and I were separated in a moment. The people helped her climb the sloped lawn. And I (I'm 75 years old) was captured by policemen, they began to twist my hands and put pressure on my neck. The demonstrators stood up for me. OMON soldiers (there were two of them) let me go when they saw that a lot of people stood up for me”;

PE No. 467 “The OMON soldiers were beating people with batons and I tried to stop it. I was knocked down. I lost consciousness. I woke up when I was brought into the prison truck. Then I was taken to the Basmannoe Internal Affairs Department where I was put in a cage. At night, the representatives of the Public Supervision Commission came and called an ambulance after examination. In hospital, I was diagnosed brain concussion, but I refused hospitalization”.

It is necessary to mention the testimonial evidence regarding young athletic men dressed in black, whom OMON soldiers failed to see:



PE No. 465 “Swinging their batons, the OMON agents would break into the crowd and beat everyone standing in the way, someone was grabbed and dragged into the prison truck. Strange people I had not seen before, perhaps, they were provocateurs jumped out of the crowd, threw something including plastic bottles and tubes and then hid in the crowd. The most interesting was the fact that the police did not catch them and let go some of the detainees who stood near prison trucks and they went towards the square.”;

PE No. 475 “There were some aggressive athletic people who could easily pass through the cordon and back again. Those people shouted extremist slogans, pushed the police officers and threw plastic bottles into the cordon. Among the detainees I saw no one of those who took an active part in provoking people to conflict with the OMON”.

There is one more very important common feature of the numerous stories - the attitude of the representatives of the law-enforcement bodies towards the detainees. They were inexplicably atrocious, used force and special equipment to unarmed people just before putting them in prison trucks. The detainees spent many hours driving around the city in dead-closed trucks:



PE No. 450 “My ​​husband and I came up to the procession, we thought that everything would be as it was in the Bolotnaya Square and Zakharov Avenue. I was in a jacket and I was grabbed by my jacket and pulled right out of the crowd. My husband grabbed me, he was a little farther in the crowd shouting: “I will not let her go alone!". The OMON soldier who pulled me from the chain looked at my husband and said something like that "I don’t care, come both" and dragged me, while my husband went to the prison truck. There were already 10 people. While the soldiers were filling in the prison truck and waiting for departure, we watched as the second line of the OMON soldiers began to use truncheons and the first one pressed people. Many blood-strained people were brought past, some were limping, someone clasped his hand, someone was with eyes swollen. People were dragged behind the cordon by one, were knocked down on the pavement, some OMON soldiers were beating an unarmed man. I thought that it was better to be in the prison truck, than to be there”;

PE No. 48 “There were many prison trucks, one of them had already moved off when I was brought, I was waiting around the next one. After a couple of minutes they brought a man with twisted hands behind his back, he was younger than me wearing a T-shirt. Within five minutes we were taken to prison truck. There were two sections, I together with that man got in the farther one. There were a few people already, one of them was a very young student, there was a man with a broken bloody elbow, there was an elderly man and a young girl but I do not remember the others. There were 12 people in our part of the prison truck, in the other one there were 13. The truck was large, it was Ural. Ventilation was turned off, it was very stuffy and the truck was cramped. We were driven more than three hours and were brought to the Voykovskoye Internal Affairs Department.”;

PE No. 97 “The prison truck stood at the Bolotnaya Square up to 8.40 PM., then it came to the local police department near the Rechnoy Vokzal subway station. There were 21 people in the prison truck, 2 of them were from Saint Petersburg”;

PE No. 144 “There were too many people in the prison truck. I was one of the latest, I was standing. When we were taken to the Sokolniki Internal Affairs Directorate we were held in the prison truck.”;

PE No. 240 “Near the prison trucks people were examined by soldiers who hit and kicked them.”;

PE No. 334 “In my presence one of the detainees was beaten in front of the prison truck. Numbers 205 and 206”;

PE No. 344 “When I was brought to the bus, two soldiers struck the head of the young man who came in front of me on the bus.”;

PE No. 400 “As I said, we were detained and taken to the Krasnoselskoe Internal Affairs Department where we were kept in a smelly place without food and water for two days. The conditions were torturous, at night there was no place to lay down, it was impossible to sleep on a narrow bench, two man sat. I am grateful to good people who gave us mineral water and some food. By the way, we also were taken to the court after the first day of detention, when the five of us sat together in a row, sometimes on each other’s knee in a small Gazelle in the sun. By night, however, we entered the court.”;

PE No. 450 “When we were taken out [in the prison truck], the driver braked hard all the time and the OMON soldiers were laughing that the detainees were shaking in the cabin.”;

PE No. 389 “There was a guy in the prison truck together with me (he looked like an anarchist). He was lying and groaning, he said that the soldiers had broken his ribs. We cried that he needed a doctor, that it was necessary to call an ambulance. We tried to fix his chest with a handkerchief. The doctor came, looked into the prison truck and told the officers that we could be taken to the department. Then new guys and girls were pushed into the truck. All of them were roughly dragged and thrown into the truck and kicked, one of the men was in a torn shirt. A girl from Saint Petersburg was also taken, because she was holding a banner in her hands.”;

PE No. 344 “The OMON soldiers obviously felt their impunity. It was a kind of polygon for them where they sharpened their skills of beating of unarmed people.”;

PE No. 500 “People were knocked down, kicked and clubbed. Of course, I also was captured. I did not go myself, I was taken by four OMON soldiers. The enraged OMON soldiers preached me to respect the law in their own way: they began to kick, hit and club me. I promised that I would register the beatings with the respective authorities. These words put a wet blanket on them to a certain extent. There were already four people in the prison truck: three young men and a girl. Our trip to Moscow ended in Sokolniki Internal Affairs Department. We were sitting in a crowded and stuffy prison truck for two hours, without water, before the first people left it. They were seriously injured. Two of them had dislocated or broken arms, one of them had concussion. An ambulance was waiting for not less than an hour before the soldiers allowed them to leave the prison truck. Around 11 p.m., I wrote everything and signed all the paper I was given into the hands of physicians who took me into hospital No. 54.”;

PE No. 364 “The OMON soldiers that drove us in the prison truck made quite positive comments about what was going on, they liked that slaughter, they used such words as “drive”. Among the detainees there was a man with a concussion in the prison truck. We demanded to call an ambulance but we just got rude answers to our demands. We spent for about two hours in the prison truck within which the man vomited.”;

PE No. 344 “We were brought in Dorogomilovo Internal Affairs Department. The reports of the detention were printed in advance and were drawn not by the officers who detained us. The reports were completely false. One of the officers began to shout and threaten me.”;

The detainees were taken to different police departments of Moscow. Some of them after being taken to the police were kept without food or water for two days. In addition, as some detainees affirm, the reports of detention were printed in advance in some local police departments.



PE No. 400 “We were detained and taken to Krasnoselskoe Internal Affairs Department, where they were kept in a smelly place without food and water for two days. The conditions were torturous, at night there was no place to lay down, it was impossible to sleep on a narrow bench, two man were sitting.”;

PE No. 401 “I was taken to Taganskoye Internal Affairs Department where I stayed for a little less than day and a half. Late in the evening of the next day I was set free and could go home”.

The testimony of the detainees delivered during the judicial sitting that was quickly organized was not taken into account (evidence No. 344). They were found guilty a priori.



There is one more very important feature: the people were detained not only on the approved meeting area. Some people were detained in the alleys and even several hours after the events, also without any explanation of the reason for their detention (participants’ evidence Nos. 18, 43, 44, 77, 93, 156, 184, 193, 341):

PE No. 43 “My husband was detained in Lavrushinskiy Alley near representative office of the European Union.”;

PE No. 77 “I saw many people were detained not only in Bolotnaya Embankment but also in the alleys leading towards the subway. The OMON soldiers walked in chain driving people into the courtyards and alleys snatching the first comers out of the crowd and taking them into the prison trucks. People were detained in a rough form without any introduction”;

PE No. 184 “Then the OMON soldiers began to clean out Kadashevskaya Embankment, squeezing the people away from the Small Stone Bridge. So we got into Small Tolmachevsky alley and the OMON chased us. Once again when the OMON soldiers rushed us, ran up to my husband, he shouted: “Do not hurt me, I have a bad knee!” and pointed to his knee. The soldier who was closer to him swung and hit the knee with a rubber truncheon. We barely came to Dr. Lisa on Pyatnitskya Street. The knee badly swelled. Dr. Lisa processed the injury, and we stayed in her place for several hours because the soldiers were still chasing the demonstrators along the streets. After a few days we had to go in hospital to do a puncture of the knee and pump out the pus and blood”;

PE No. 187 “When it [Bolotnaya Embankment. - Ed.] was completely cleaned out, we were driven to the other side of the river from there the columns of soldiers went along the alleys towards the subway. There the OMON continued to beat and roughly throw the demonstrators into the prison trucks. Near the Novokuznetskaya underground station, the detentions began again, the soldiers threw all the young people who were on the street into the prison truck.”;

PE No. 44 “I was roughly detained not in the Bolotnaya Square but at the corner of Kadashevskaya Embankment and Lavrushinsky Alley next to Luzhkovy Bridge. There were a lot of demonstrators and police forces on Kadashevskaya Embankment. People were detained all the time. The soldiers began to detain someone at the corner of Lavrushinsky Alley. I tried to hold people putting my arms around them. But I was knocked down. I’d got a kick to the head. Then one man told me to give him my hand. Otherwise he threatened to break it. One of the accompanying soldiers kept both my jam and neck with the hands around it. Another soldier twisted my arm so I felt pain. Then in front of the prison truck I was forced to do the splits and the soldier pushed to my leg. I was searched staying in such a position, then they forced me to turn out the contents of bag on the ground. We were taken to the Fili-Davydkovo Internal Affairs Department.”;

PE No. 460 “We were in a cafe in Lavrushinsky Alley and when we went away at 6-7 p.m. we noticed a chain of OMON soldiers moving from channel along Lavrushinsky Alley past the Tretyakov Gallery drive all the people away from the territory. The officer without rank insignia ordered who should be detained. Three or four soldiers jumped out of the formation, grabbed and dragged people into the buses that were moving beyond the chain.”;

PE No. 449 “The detentions continued on Kadashevskaya Embankment. The soldiers grabbed people at random. I was one of those people”.

It is necessary to pay particular attention to the information that proves a selective attitude to the detainees who were in the police department. It was obvious that it was necessary to choose accidentally detained officers in mufti and those who were penetrated into the ranks of the demonstrators:



PE No. 401 “At a certain moment the police weakened the chain and I was pushed behind the cordon by the crowd where I was immediately arrested. Some people in the crowd shouted that there were provocateurs who pushed people in the hands of the police. I mean that when we were taken to the police some people had escaped. It proves the fact that they were brought together with us in the police department but they were not registered and detained and were immediately released. I know at least one such person. He sat in front of me and captured our behavior on film using his mobile phone. Then we did not pay any attention to that because we did not know what a large-scale provocation was planned by the existing regime”.

In such a situation an estimate of one of the protesters seems to be fair. He briefly summed up the events in Bolotnaya Square: “I ​​believe that the criminal actions of the Main Department of Internal Affairs which limited a permitted access to the Bolotnaya Square and significantly narrowed the pass (which was supposed to go through the park and through the northern roadway of the Bolotnaya Square) opened a door for provocation that happened. Coordinated actions of the OMON soldiers, common correlation of forces and the sequence of events leave no doubt that the Main Department of Internal Affairs was completely informed of the upcoming provocation. The forces that were collected at the Great Stone Bridge and its approaches were designed not to maintain public order but to suppress an armed revolt.

A group of individuals responsible for the provocation acted as a team and in organized way. Furthermore, after the elimination of a breakthrough and detention of all the people who went to the territory of the Udarnik cinema hall, to my surprise, sometimes I met some persons of the breakthrough groups which attacked the OMON more actively than others. They burned fires, threw pieces of asphalt and be all means provoked peaceful participants of the meeting to act illegally. They are liable for the conflict. Many of them were without masks on their faces and sooner or later find themselves in the hands of the OMON. There is no one of those men in the dock now” (PE No. 106).

It is clear that the OMON got a blank check to use special weapons and force against the participants of a peaceful action. The representatives of power structures and the officers in mufti that gave orders could not be aware that they broke the Law On the Police. The fact that the officials of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Public Prosecution Office of the Russian Federation refused to consider properly the complaints of citizens who became victims of the OMON during the events of the 6th of May confirms this conclusion.



PE No. 528 (A.V. Aniskin). He was arrested with the use of physical force. He suffered and filed a claim to the Chief of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow designate. Proper investigation was not carried out. Moreover, the person was accused of falsifying medical documents:

The jam has begun, and the police officers roughly pushed me and I fell on my back, got a scrape on right elbow and bashed my head against the pavement. Two police officers grabbed me by the hands and dragged me on the pavement, I screamed with fear and pain. Then two more police officers ran up to me, the four of them grabbed my legs and dragged me, one of them struck low blows although I offered no resistance. After a while I was taken to the police bus and delivered to the local police station on Krasnosel'skiy district. I spent two days in the police department. I felt bad because of the injuries, I was disturbed by the pain in my left-hand side, persistent dizziness and vomiting spells... ... We were brought in court at 8 a.m. on May 8, 2012. Roughly about 10.30 a.m. due to the hypertensive crisis and feeling unwell I was called an ambulance which took me in hospital No. 1 named after Pirogov. The doctor examined me and I was hospitalized and was treated up to the 17th of May, 2012. In hospital I was diagnosed with closed craniocerebral injury and concussion”.

There is one more claim at the address of the Chief of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow designate from victim N.S. Fattyahdinova. Proper investigation was not carried out:

I was pushed hard and fell on the pavement, then one of the police officers kicked me in the liver while I was lying on the pavement. I could not move because of the pain. The police officers grabbed me and dragged away from the territory fenced for the meeting towards the monument to Repin, where they threw me to the other people. The bus was standing in the square about an hour. We were taken to the police station on Krasnosel'skiy district of Moscow at 9.30 p.m. I spent two nights in the police department.”.

The claim of the citizen of the Republic of Belarus, A.L. Eliseev, directed to the Prosecutor of Moscow State Counselor of Justice S.V. Kudeneev was also left unattended. The claim stated virtually the same facts as the other claims. It said the person was detained and beaten.

V.N. Zakharov applied to the Head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Colonel General Alexander Bastrykin. He asked to initiate a criminal investigation against the police officer, the OMON soldier, who committed a crime against him that is doing him moderately severe physical injury. No reply has followed.


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