Russian “prime minister” Vladimir Putin believes it is so impossible that Russian law enforcement authorities could have been involved with the bomb attacks in Moscow that were used to justify the invasion of Chechya that no investigation of the possibility is necessary. Moscow Times crime blogger Carl Schrenk has other information about the nature of high-ranking law enforcement officers in Russia (LR readers will recall our report last week about the Moscow district police chief who turned out to be mass murderer):
In a quirky case that mirrors the plot of a famous Russian movie, a St. Petersburg police investigator is suspected of organizing the escape of an jailed felon with whom she had apparent romantic links.
Prosecutors say Yana Antonova, an investigator for “especially important cases” with the St. Petersburg police, forged an order for the jail transfer of suspect Mikhail Beryukov and then spirited him off to a rented apartment, where they spent a week together.
It turns out that Antonova was working on a case in which Beryukov, who’s already served time for murder, was charged with fraud. A court had ordered him remanded to a St. Petersburg detention facility, but in February, Antonova — “acting out of her own personal interest” — forged her boss’ signature on an order to transfer Beryukov to a different facility, investigators said.
But forging the order was just the beginning, authorities say. On Feb. 24, Antonova then managed to convince the police convoy carrying out the transfer order that the case against Beryukov had actually been dropped, meaning that he should be released immediately, investigators said.
“After that she drove Beryukov in her own car to an apartment in St. Petersburg that Antonova had rented earlier,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
It appears that Antonova had no intention of breaking him out for good. It looks like she may have just wanted a little “us” time for the star-crossed lovers.
After spending a week holed up in the apartment, she tried in vain to get him to go back to jail. While Beryukov was drunk, Antonova called the cops and claimed he had escaped from jail, and he was promptly returned to his detention facility.
Antonova was kicked off the force on March 5, and authorities are investigating her on suspicion of abusing her position.
If any of this sounds familiar to you Russian cinema buffs, you may recall the 1993 film “Tyuremny Romans,” or “Prison Romance,” starring Marina Neyolova and Alexander Abdulov.
Neyolova played Yelena Shemelova, a senior police investigator and wife of a State Duma deputy who falls in love with crime boss Sergei Maduyev, played by Abdulov, who goes by the nickname “Chervonets,” or “Tenner” (as in “ten-ruble bill”).
She falls in love with Tenner, breaks him out of jail, and dramatic things happen, though Shemelova doesn’t end up behind bars.
Curiously, that movie is based on a true story, in which a female lawyer broke the real Sergei Maduyev — a half-Korean, half-Chechen gangster also nicknamed “Tenner” — out of jail.
The lawyer, Natalya Vorontsovaya, did a stint in the can for organizing the break.
“Russian “prime minister” Vladimir Putin believes it is so impossible that Russian law enforcement authorities could have been involved with the bomb attacks in Moscow that were used to justify the invasion of Chechya that no investigation of the possibility is necessary.”
Not quite, as it was his men were behind them. Those caught red-handed were from the Moscow FSB and he was the FSB chief turned prime minister (turned president turned “father of the nation”).
Putin ought to be sitting in Hague for that act alone.
The FSB might have planned it, but, all that followed certainly involved the complicity of the local police in having the investigation reach a dead end.
Anna Politkovskaya raised questions about that incident and you can bet that was when she became a person on Putin’s hit list.
They do not allow Ethnic Russians into Night Clubs. Mine Gold to send to China and pay no taxes. Moscow ordered an inspection of the Far Eastern Jewish Autonomous Region (Birobidzhan) which borders China.
“The regional authorities have been accused of using federal budget transfers to finance Chinese businesses, even if their produce does not reach Russian markets. Chinese farmers, subsidized by the Russian authorities within its territory, are selling their produce in China. Under the protection of the local authorities, the Chinese migrants mine gold and export it to China, with nothing being re-invested within Russia, or taxes paid on the profits”.
What is Moscow going to do about it?
Moscow remains firmly determined to collect and harshly control the distribution of regional revenues in order to retain its central authority. Meanwhile, the economic potential of the poorer regions is flowing abroad, ironically reducing Moscow’s political influence and power to the point of a dangerous national breakup.
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnewstt_news=34945&tx_ttnewsbackPid=7&cHash=9a68df0d8a
George -
Can you elaborate, what you are trying to say? Who are “they” that “do not allow Ethnic Russians into Night Clubs”? Where is your first quote coming from, and more importantly, what does it prove?
On the surface it’s a non-sequitur to your first paragraph, since as far as I remember, there is no gold in Jewish Autonomous Region (I may be wrong on that).
Your link goes nowhere, so it’s difficult to comment on it :) But whatever Moscow remains determined, their influence on Far East region (mainly, Chita and Trans-Baikal districts) is much less than Chinese. I translated a few paragraphs from Latynina’s article where she compares the invented threats from US and NATO to real bloody threat from Northern Caucasus, and soft (economic) threat from China.
There is nothing ironic about those threats – it’s natural consequence of post-Soviet style economy Russia losing to market economy of China.
That said, how all this related to the article?
Hey, there must be gold there, it’s “Jewish Region”! ;)
Felix, go to: Jamestown.Org and click on Russia, and then go to the story; “Moscow Tightens its Grip on the Regions as Wealth Declines”. (Jamestown does not allow you to link to a story apparently.) The idea of Russians not allowed in Night Clubs means that they are being squeezed out or excluded. Yes it does seem that the Jews or Russians missing out on the Gold , and it was being shipped to China showing that they were not “on duty” at the time. Anyway read the article. Seems that Moscali are getting left out. As far as authorities are concerned they work for themselves. Yes I agree with you that the bloody threat is from the Caucuses and that would be just “chickens coming home to roost”.
China is no soft threat and will succeed.