One of the more striking things I’ve come across in recent days: *Pyatigorsk police have created a special unit to prevent the increasingly frequent disturbances of public order by armed security personnel from neighboring republics who are vacationing in the city, Deputy Commander of the city police patrol battalion Vladimir Zubov said. “After information emerged that law enforcement officers and security personnel from the Chechen Republic and Kabardino-Balkaria were able to enter entertainment venues with weapons without surrendering them, and when such incidents began to occur, we created a special group in response,” Zubov said at a meeting of the city’s public council devoted to public safety issues. He clarified that the decision to create the special unit came after an incident in May, when a conflict involving security personnel at one of the city’s venues ended in gunfire from traumatic weapons (less-lethal firearms), and promised that such incidents would not happen again. As Zubov explained, the special unit includes eight of the most highly trained officers, equipped with the necessary special gear and the best vehicles. The new unit is on duty from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. *////// So the fact that Chechen police officers are thugs and muscle with police IDs has now received official recognition. And thugs with a code of rules (the rest of Russia’s police force) are creating a unit to rein in thugs without any code. Now we await the directive Nurgaliyev will approve specifically for Chechen police officers: “Your ID and pistol were not given to you so you could wave them around in nightclubs, but so you could feed your family. The more quietly you do it, the better rations you will receive. From butter to black caviar, from wild garlic to foie gras.” There’s just one problem: it’s not a given that Chechen police officers can read and will be able to familiarize themselves with the order.