Police officers face a demonstrator in the center of Moscow on 12 December 2010Autour twilight on December 11, Chief of police of Moscow, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, arrived at the scene of a race riot that did not appease his troops. Crowds of skinheads had beaten dozens of passers-by in the afternoon in the streets and in the subway, leaving blood on the ground and swastikas scribbled on the walls of the Kremlin's doors. Kolokoltsev had it, thousands of demonstrators were chanting racist slogans and throw bottles and flares on his men. He decided it was time to negotiate.
A police force not known to be shy with their batons, is something unprecedented, and it has solidified the growing belief among Russians who the authorities are unable or unwilling to stop the recent wave of violence committed by the nationalists in the country. "He was basically admitting defeat," says Evgeny Valyaev, leader of the Group of supremacy Russky Obraz, whose members have participated riots last Saturday shaved head. "They should not have caused us." It is their mistake. This Kolokoltsev has been forced to negotiate with a man in a black mask, "he told time during an interview on Monday." See if the Russia protest movement is real.
That hardly speak, captured by the new cameras appeared to set the tone that the Russian law enforcement has decided to take during the worst ethnic violence in Moscow over the years: a tone much sweeter than most expected. 5,000 Protesters who participated in the demonstration Saturday, only 65 were arrested, and each of them have been released by the next day. Even though the demonstrators had no permission to rally, no effort was made to disperse the crowd, until it turned violent. Inexplicably, Minister of the Interior Rashid Nourgaliev visited hours of television after violence and blamed it on "a provocation of the radical left," leaving much disturbed when he saw the influence of Communists in fascist event.
It seems to make angry President Dmitri Medvedev, who feels obliged to declare clearly Monday a meeting of cops top the Russia page. "Recent events in Moscow - the riots, the attacks against people - should be considered as crimes, and the persons who committed them must be punished,"said a Medvedev visibly angry."" The Prosecutor then announced that he had opened 11 cases criminal (especially for "hooliganism"), even if a total of 32 people, including police officers sustained serious injuries to the violence. (See the stories of 10 top world 2010 page).
The Russia rights activists, this response is as only the last sign of police complicity in the nationalist subculture. In the month of August, Viktor Lukonin, an important service protection, has been indicted for leading responsible ultra-nationalist gang of arson and the bombings in the West of Oryol region. He denies the charges. But first Defender Elena Tyuryukanova, rights of migrants, Putin sees his case as part of a broader trend. "Constructed of xenophobia, pressure is increasing and our police force showed that they cannot control or do not want", she says. "Now we are confronted with a situation where people are afraid to go into the streets and at the same time they cannot turn the police assistance." "They feel totally not protected".
And nationalist tend to feel the opposite. Wednesday, defined in step with another demonstration of Moscow Kievsky station, home market huge flower run mostly by immigrants from the Caucasus region. If immigrants come armed, explains the Russky Obraz Valyaev leader, "he could look at a riot as a war." (Comment on this story).
The pretext to come like that sparked protests Saturday, riot is the assassination of Yegor Sviridov, a 28 year old Russian killed in a brawl Street with a group of Caucasian men on 6 December. Sviridov has been a member of a soccer team fan club art Moscow Spartak, and his death has galvanized huge community of fanatics of soccer, many of whom are also involved in the Russian nationalist movement. In the rally Saturday and several previous appellant justice dans l'affaire Sviridov, football fans constituted the major part of the crowd yelling racist chants.
"These movements soccer undergo a crisis," says Pavel Zyryanov, Member of the Russian Parliament Committee on youth policy. "They have become a place where can arrange nationalists and radicals". I was at the games with them, and it is not uncommon to see Nazi symbols, torn from the stands, all sorts of crazy chairs. See photos of the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Monday, leaders of associations of football-fan of the Russia refused ties to the radical right and senior officials of the Government also submits that the two movements are not connected. But according to Valyaev, nationalists have become "completely interlaced" with the movement of soccer in recent years, swelling the ranks of groups such as his. "We reached the point where the direction [soccer clubs] will have to accept the nationalist cause," he said. "Most of the fans is simply break away from these organizations and start their own."
If it turns out be right nationalist groups will be easily be able to thousands of demonstrators field each time that they please, and the Government will propose ways to better control their horns instincts. For now, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has not yet commented on violence Saturday, nor a new mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin. But the image of the police chief shyly chatting with a rioter in a balaclava is a sign of the victory in the Russia neo-Nazis. It is surprising that they appear today high on their own impunity.
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