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Feb 22 / 1:14am

Russia's police top brass uses slave labour

by Kerkko Paananen

Russian police top brass uses slave labour, a former police official has alleged. Speaking to The New Times, Larisa Krepkova, former Lieutenant-Cynologist at the Zubr (Bison) riot police unit in the Moscow suburb of Shchelkovo, claimed that the unit seized guest workers from the CIS in the labour market on Yaroslavl Highway. The workers were then sent to work as slave labour at the country houses of senior police officials. Those who tried to escape were savagely beaten. One of the dachas where slaves were held was that of Mikhail Sukhodolsky, deputy head of Russia's Ministry of Interior.

http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/15933

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Feb 2 / 2:31pm

Russian riot police blow the whistle

by Kerkko Paananen

A group of Russian riot police officers told the opposition New Times that they are being forced to make false arrests and that their fellow officers work as bodyguards for gangsters.

"One of us once protected a shwarma place outside a hotel in Moscow's Ismailov district. On Arbat, we guard the office of a Georgian mobster," one officer said. Commanders get their cut.

Officers were forced to arrest innocent people because of orders to make at least three detentions per shift. Otherwise they risked seeing their monthly salaries cut, the report said.

The police officers made their allegations public after they received no reaction to a letter sent to President Dmitry Medvedev. The letter was signed by "about a dozen" OMON officers.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/omon-officers-complain-of-corruption-in-their-ranks/398800.html

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