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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 N E W S The Moscow Times? 3 8 ExCops Sent to Jail Over Deadly Torture Case THE MOSCOW TIMES OSCE Says Ukraine Water in Jeopardy REUTERS Eight former police officers in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan received lengthy prison terms Monday for torturing suspects, including one case in which the victim died. A local court sentenced the men to terms ranging from two years to 15 years for torturing suspects at the Dalny detention facility in the Tatarstan capital of Kazan. They were all convicted of abusing their authority and causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death. The Dalny precinct gained notoriety in March 2012 when 52yearold Sergei Nazarov died from injuries sustained in custody. Investigators determined that he had been raped with a champagne bottle while in detention. In the wake of that incident, dozens of other people came forward to complain about the behavior of the Kazan police, prompting the resignation of the Tatarstan police chief, Rustem Kadyrov. Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said in a statement after the sentencing that the men “had a smoothrunning criminal operation for getting the desired testimony” from suspects in custody. The investigation took nearly two years, with 18 criminal cases opened into the Dalny precinct relating to 24 different crimes and more than 150 witnesses questioned, Markin said. “With impunity, the police officers became so brazen that they used violence as a means of receiving the desired testimony, not only in relation to suspects, but also to witnesses and even victims,” Markin said. “If there was an unsolved theft, they would summon a person to the precinct who they would then immediately be deemed guilty,” Markin said, adding that if the person refused to confess, they would face torture. The exact number of victims in the case was not disclosed. Two other former officers were convicted in late 2012 after admitting their guilt. The eight sentenced Monday had denied their involvement to the very end. Ainur Rakhmatullin, the former head of the department for wanted fugitives, got eight years in a maximumsecurity prison, while his deputy Almaz Vasilov got 15 years. Fail Sabirzyanov, the former deputy head of the police department, got 12 years in a highsecurity prison. Those three were singled out by investigators as the “most brutal and amoral” in their crimes. Two other officers were given tenyear sentences, while another two got six years and four years, respectively. The lightest sentence handed down in the case was two years in a penal colony. THE MOSCOW TIMES Investigators have launched a probe into the death of a former anticorruption cop who reportedly jumped from a sixthstory window while being questioned Monday. “During the interrogation, the investigator and lawyer left the room, and at that moment my client dove out the window. He is dead,” said the deceased Boris Kolesnikov’s other lawyer Georgy KRASNOYARSK REGIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE RUSSIAN EMERGENCIES MINISTRY / REUTERS Firefighters work at the site of a blaze at Rosneft’s Achinsk oil refinery in which at least five people were killed. At Least 5 Killed in Rosneft Plant Blast THE MOSCOW TIMES At least five people were killed and seven injured in an explosion at a factory belonging to state oil giant Rosneft in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk on Sunday evening. The incident at a refinery in the town of Achinsk resulted in a blaze covered an area of about 400 square meters as gas pipelines caught fire, the BBC’s Russian Service reported. Three people remain unaccounted THE MOSCOW TIMES for, the report said. News agency ITARTass cited witnesses as saying the explosion was felt throughout the entire town, and some buildings in close proximity to the blast were damaged as well. Black smoke was visible from several kilometers away, the report said. In a statement on its website, the Emergency Situations Ministry said the fire was under control. “At the moment work is being done to suppress the fire, review and wash Lashing back against an antiRussia protest staged in Kiev over the weekend, conservative St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov offered employees of the city’s Ukrainian Consulate a sex toy and some cured pork fat. About 30 people turned out to support Milonov’s consulate protest on Sunday, Fontanka.ru reported. Many of those in attendance at the event were affiliates of Molodaya Gvardiya,or Young Guard — the ruling United Russia party’s youth branch. Milonov had hoped to present a series of socalled “gifts” to consulate employees, including a sex toy — in apparent reference to accusations that Kiev has sold out to U.S. interests — and slices of salo, or cured pork fat, a traditional Ukrainian food. Unfortunately for Milonov, no employees were at work during the event to down the collapsed structures, and also to examine the rubble and civil engineering structure” for further investigation, the ministry said. The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the violation of safety requirements and negligence leading to multiple deaths, a statement on its website said. The crime carries a maximum punishment of seven years in prison. The plant belongs to the company NeftAktiv, a subsidiary of Rosneft. Milonov Offers Ukraine Diplomats Sex Toys SelfStyled Vampire Slayer ‘Mentally Ill’ THE MOSCOW TIMES A 35yearold man from the Bryansk region has been committed to a mental asylum for compulsory treatment after killing a 63yearold drinking buddy he believed to be a vampire. Last September, the two villagers decided to have a few drinks together, according to a statement issued by the Investigative Committee’s Bryansk branch. The younger man became agitated when he realized that his companion was drinking more than him, and — as he later told investigators — the older man then grew fangs and turned into a vampire. The younger man attacked the “vampire,” first using his fists and then working his way up to a crow bar and a screwdriver, which he used to stab the victim. A psychiatric evaluation of the man found that he suffered from a mental illness and could not be held responsible for his actions at the time of the killing. A court sentenced him to mandatory treatment at a mental health facility. ExPoliceman ‘ Dove to Death’ in Detention Antonov, Interfax reported. According to a statement posted on the Investigative Committee’s website, Kolesnikov asked two guards to let him use the bathroom. He then knocked them over after his handcuffs were removed and jumped, the statement said. The statement added that Kolesnikov was being questioned over abuse of office accusations at the time. Before being arrested in February, he had served as deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s anticorruption department. Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group and a veteran human rights campaigner, cast doubt on the official version of events, referring to the situation as “very strange.” “When he ran, knocked over the guards, he just knew that a window was open somewhere? It is very strange somehow. It is unclear whether he jumped himself or was thrown out,” Alexeyev said, Interfax reported. accept the gifts, the report said. The protest was organized in answer to a protest held outside of the Russian Embassy in Kiev on Saturday by Ukrainian activists, who smashed windows, tore down the Russian flag and damaged cars. Milonov told those in attendance that the protest was also a message to the Ukrainian government that the Russian people were ready to stand up and defend their fellow citizens if necessary. Fighting in eastern Ukraine threatens water supplies to the city of Donetsk and could have serious consequences for 4 million people, monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, warned Monday. The OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission in eastern Ukraine quoted local officials as saying a water pumping station and a section of pipeline near the town of Semyonovka, close to the bitterly contested city of Slovyansk, had been damaged in fighting between government forces and separatists. “This pumping station and pipeline constitute the main water supply for Donetsk city’s population of 1 million, and a further 3 million inhabitants of the region,” it said in a statement following talks with Donetsk mayor Alexander Lukyanchenko. The OSCE mission quoted the mayor on its Facebook page as saying the water supply to Donetsk had not been affected yet, but that this was set to change “in a very short while.” Repair work was under way but help was needed to prevent it being interrupted by shooting, it said. Semyonovka lies about 5 km (3 miles) southeast of Slovyansk and 110 km (70 miles) north of Donetsk, the main city in the Donbass coal mining region. The statement is the latest sign of a growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine. Water, food and electricity supplies have been affected in some areas and thousands of people have fled their homes for safe areas, including some who have taken refuge in neighboring Russia. The separatists rose up in the Russianspeaking east in April to press for annexation by Moscow after Ukraine’s proRussian president was toppled in February and Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March.

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