Be sure to read about how this thug and criminal Bastrykin serves the interests of Kadyrov’s gangsters, who kidnap and torture people right in Moscow:
Officers from the central apparatus of the FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service; the editorial staff knows their names) contacted Novaya Gazeta and said that almost their entire department is refusing to report for duty, and that they are even ready to hand in their service IDs. The reason for such a drastic protest was the recent release from custody of Chechen police officers who, in 2011, kidnapped a man in Moscow, extorted money from him, and subjected him to brutal torture. .... On August 23, 2011, citizen Zh. was abducted near the Darya shopping center on Stroginsky Boulevard (the editors know his surname, but in the criminal case he appears under the pseudonym Grigory, so we will refer to him that way below). According to the investigation, the kidnapping involved police officers seconded to Moscow from Chechnya to protect the head of the republic and members of his family during their visits. Specifically: Khozh-Akhmed Israilov, a criminal investigations operative from the Nozhay-Yurt District police department of the Chechen Republic (carrying a Stechkin pistol (APS) No. LV 991 and travel papers assigning him to protect the president of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Adam Israilov, an inspector with the road police internal security unit of the Chechen Republic Interior Ministry’s rapid response division (Stechkin pistol No. SV 1656K and travel papers assigning him to protect the president of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Dzhambulat Makhmatmurziev, a criminal investigations operative from the Shelkovsky District police department of the Chechen Republic (Stechkin No. SV 380 and travel papers assigning him to protect the president of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Muskhadzhi Musulayev, a criminal investigations operative from the Urus-Martan District police department of the Chechen Republic (Stechkin No. SK 653K and travel papers assigning him to protect the president of the Chechen Republic and members of his family); Ibragim-Bek Tagirov, a former officer of Moscow’s organized crime unit; Aslanbek Temirov, a native of the village of Belgatoy in the Shali District of the Chechen Republic; and Akhmed Dzamikhov, a native of the village of Zalukodes in the Zolsky District of Kabardino-Balkaria. First, they showed Grigory their service IDs; then they smashed his head with a pistol grip, forcibly drove him to the settlement of Meshchersky (near the MKAD, Moscow’s ring road), and threw him into the basement of businessman Nabi M.’s house. According to FSB operational data, businessman M. had previously been an active member of illegal armed groups, and hostages were periodically kept at his house by the MKAD. According to the criminal case materials, they extorted 3 million rubles from Grigory or demanded a new Lexus. The Chechen police officers handcuffed him to an iron table, beat him with an iron bar, and raped him with a billiard cue. When the hostage stopped showing signs of life, they drove him to Strogino at night and dumped him at a bus stop. Two hours later, a passerby saw Grigory bleeding heavily and called an ambulance. Doctors took the victim to the intensive care unit of Hospital No. 67 and gave a grim diagnosis: “closed traumatic brain injury in the form of a cerebral contusion and subarachnoid hemorrhage with focal and generalized neurological symptoms, intra-abdominal injury to the rectum (defect of the anterior rectal wall).” http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/57374.html
But in the “Bolotnaya case” (the prosecution over the 2012 Bolotnaya Square protest), people accused of things like “grabbed a police officer by the clothing” have been kept in pretrial detention for almost a year already. They absolutely cannot be released. They might intimidate witnesses and obstruct the investigation. Unlike these men — socially close to Putin and Bastrykin:
The regime’s hope and mainstay. By the way, this story is a postcard to everyone who likes to whine, “i_don’t_go_to_rallies_it’s_useless_and_i’m_disillusioned.” Go on not attending, and sit quietly at home. That’s exactly what these guys want. And so the routine line “hostages are periodically kept at his house by the MKAD” will keep appearing in operational reports as if it were just another ordinary detail. And as they drive past, FSB officers will say to the relatives and friends sitting in the car, “that house over there is where Kadyrov’s men keep hostages. Everybody knows it, but we can’t do anything: in return, the kidnappers’ boss delivers 99% of the vote for Putin in elections.”