Secret burial grounds have been found in Krasnodar Krai (a region in southern Russia), where people killed by a local United Russia deputy were buried. There he is, in the photo on the left. With his party leader.
He killed a man, buried him in the woods, and then went off to discuss the role of United Russia in strengthening law and order and building a state governed by the rule of law. And here is a continuation of the Moscow adventures of the security detail of another prominent United Russia figure and pillar of Russian statehood — Ramzan Kadyrov. The mystery of the pearlescent Stechkin pistol.
Of all those arrested and detained, the best known turned out to be Zelimkhan Israilov, nicknamed “Bes” (“Demon”; he sometimes uses documents in the name of Bislan Khakimov). Around the capital he traveled in a Mercedes ML-500 with the license plate R *** KR 150 RUS, and stayed either at the President Hotel or in the apartment of banker Alexander K.
This character has appeared in Moscow crime reports more than once. For example, on January 5, 2009, in Moscow, Israilov used his service-issued Stechkin pistol to open fire on a bus that had cut him off, wounding the driver, Porshnev. In response, Porshnev hit Bes with a crowbar. The story caused a major public outcry, but the criminal case was closed by the Investigative Directorate for Moscow’s Western Administrative District. It seemed that after the abduction and torture of “Grigory,” those responsible would finally face the punishment they deserved. However, on February 19, 2013, the Investigative Committee’s directorate for Moscow’s Central Administrative District (headed by former Sochi investigative department chief Alexei Kramarenko) released all those arrested under travel restrictions. On the very first flight, the defendants flew to Chechnya, and their trail disappeared. ... The Chechen operatives who were arrested and then released had been in the capital under Order No. 470 l/s of February 21, 2008, issued by the Chechen Interior Ministry, “to provide operational cover and personal security for the president of the Chechen Republic, R.A. Kadyrov, and members of his family.” According to the directive of the Chechen Interior Minister, Ruslan
Under Alkhanov’s Order No. 509 of April 1, 2008, Israilov Z.I. (Bes) was the commander of the officers sent on assignment, and while the head of the Chechen Republic and members of his family were absent from Moscow, he was “assigned responsibility for conducting physical and service training sessions with the officers on assignment, including administering evaluations.” ... Until recently, this entire armed crowd had been based at the President Hotel, where the Moscow office of Chechen Prime Minister Odes Baisultanov was located. But after hotel guests complained about “armed men in tracksuits with Stechkins,” some of the group moved to the café in the Vremena Goda shopping center on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, while others moved to the Baku restaurant. ... More talkative was the pimp Nadezhda L. (the editors know her surname but are withholding it for her safety): — Three years ago, some Chechens with assault rifles took four of our girls and said they were taking them to the President Hotel. We never saw Natasha and Lena again, and the other two were sent to Israel for treatment — they had been torn apart. — Did you contact law enforcement? — We complained to our security people, but they got scared. Still, they said Natasha and Lena had apparently been buried in the woods. We tracked down the Moscow surgeon who sent the mutilated girls to Israel for treatment, but he said that “he still wanted to stay alive” and refused to provide details. ... These fighters are armed with Stechkin and Gyurza pistols, automatic weapons, and move around the capital in expensive foreign cars with license plate series MMM, AAA, XXX and number combinations “333,” “444,” “555,” and “888.”
We don’t know how these officers studied at the FSB Academy, but they clearly skipped the class on “tradecraft.” For example, from a photo gallery these security men posted on a popular website, you can learn where and when they accompanied Kadyrov in Moscow and in the United Arab Emirates. Their correspondence with fellow countrymen is also quite something to read. I quote: Maga: “Rustam, where was this photo taken?” Rustam: “At Ramzan’s residence. May Allah grant him health.” Maga: “What a beautiful fountain!” Rustam: “That fountain costs more than your five-story apartment block”.
You read this and can’t believe that something like this could be happening in Moscow right now, in this day and age. Here you are, reading this post and drinking coffee from a paper cup, while less than a kilometer away some heroin-addled basmachi (a historical term for bandits/insurgents, used here as an ethnic slur) with perfectly legal FSB officer IDs are raping a kidnapped man with a billiard cue or killing prostitutes hired for entertainment. And then they go spend the night at the President Hotel. I genuinely do not understand how anyone can not take to the streets in protest knowing all this. On May 6, 2013, we absolutely all need to see each other there.