Everyday Horror In Moscow
Khurshed Aminov on the Russian blog reported today that several policemen (militiamen) entered into the room of Tajik students in one of university dormitories and beat them up. Kurshed says, fortunately those representatives of law enforcement bodies were punished.
However the story with those militiamen has a continuation. Kommersant reports…
Yesterday, Sergei Komkov (Head of Russian Educational Foundation) reported, that the law enforcement officers of Vykhino Militia Department found heroin in the dormitory of State University of Management. The drug was found in lavatory of the room where last year Tajik students were beaten by local militiamen. “It looks more like revenge. The circumstance of finding the bag with heroin is very suspicious,” says Komkov.
According to Komkov, yesterday in the morning two strangers came to the dormitory, broke out the door of the room where the Tajik students live and stole their belongings. When the students came back from classes they reported about the incident to Vykhino Militia Department. “The field investigators which came to see the room did not enter the room [place of incident]. They went directly to the lavatory and took from behind the sewage pipe a bag with gray powder. After that they detained four of the students who lived in this room,” said Komkov. Last year two of them were involved in incident with beating”.











on October 18th, 2007 at 1:36 am
The harrassment and assault of foreign students, in my experience, is an old habit of the Moscow police. Back in 1993, several friends from Uganda studying at the University of People’s Friendship spoke of simalar incidents. Detainment and a few hits with the “pozhaulsta” stick was an all too common part of their Moscow experience. The suspicion of being drunk in public was enough to warrant such treatment.