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Eye witness.
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I wrote the text that follows ten years ago. It was published at the time in Moscow's progressive New Gazette. I had hoped that the leadership of the Moscow police would have in some way reacted to the article. A copy of the newspaper was delivered to them. But I received no reply. I did not protest further: after all, the more one makes noise, the more actively the police force defends itself by hanging entirely new crimes on the victim. I feared for the life of the unfortunate young man. Today, nothing has changed in the conduct of the police force. Take the case of Mai. Denis Yevsyukov, who in April 2009 went on a shooting rampage in a supermarket, killing three people and wounding seven. Though he was recently sentenced to life in prison, the crime enraged citizens, who often see violent offenders in those who would be thei...See the full content of this document
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