Russian Whistleblower Cop Arrested 199
Remember the Russian cop's YouTube narrative on police corruption? Reader Max_W writes with the news that Alexei Dymovsky, the cop whose videos started a movement, was arrested (Google translation; Russian original) on January 22, 2010. He is in prison in the south of Russia. Max_W adds: "It seems only a president is allowed to have a video blog in Russia."
Not final (Score:2)
According to Alexei in the indictment were not listed his specific criminal acts, but simply stated that he committed fraud. They say investigators have not found everything, because detailed charges will be filed Dymov later. In addition, it is not against the CCP [], was handed a resolution to bring an accused on the pretext that it is "secret" character.
So he is being held until final charges are issued? Sounds like something that would happen in every country.
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To add to this, you need to pay big sums of money so you could bail out in US.
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In Springfield MA police officers who had been videotaped kicking a guy in the head were found not guilty. The judge ruled that they used "reasonable force" to
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If you haven't seen it already, watch this video.
The Largest Street Gang In America [republicbroadcasting.org]
I came from Portland, OR, which is sadly featured repeatedly in this short movie. I really wish someone could do some sort of satellite hack and force the entire country to watch this video, just once in their lifetime.
People really need to open their eyes and reevaluate what level of force police should be allowed to use against non-compliant persons. The most tragic cases highlighted in that video are those where police wer
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I know there's probably no point in talking to someone who thinks that "Republic Broadcasting Network" is a good source of news, but I gotta ask ... was there some point to that video?
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Cute :) Seriously, though, you're not actually going to try and defend that crap, are you? Those "filmmakers" make Michael Moore look like a paragon of truth and honesty.
Oh, and btw, my "SlashID" is that bunch of numbers beside my username.
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Actually, Slashdot calls it a Nickname not a username (see the login page). The number next to it is your UID [slashdot.org]. Only a fascist would think that a number is a suitable way to ID someone ;-)
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Actually, Slashdot calls it a Nickname not a username
Subscriptions [slashdot.org]:
Otherwise put your real name, username or anything else you deem appropriate. If you leave this field blank the message will default to containing your Slashdot username.
Feeds [slashdot.org]:
Where you see $username below, substitute the URI-encoded username of the user in question (such as Clifton+Wood).
Only a fascist would think that a number is a suitable way to ID someone ;-)
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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Cute :) Seriously, though, you're not actually going to try and defend that crap, are you? Those "filmmakers" make Michael Moore look like a paragon of truth and honesty.
Oh, and btw, my "SlashID" is that bunch of numbers beside my username.
Have you been drinking today?
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So the police are a big gang protecting us from several other gangs (rather ineffectively at that). And because we can't stand up on our own, we have to bend over double for the police gang?
Nice. That sort of logic actually glorifies sending PEOPLE to prison to get raped.
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Well your SlashID scares the hell out of me, but luckily for us you are too busy hightailing it to Missouri [wikipedia.org] from Canada because you are afraid of the cold. The very thought of how dangerous you must be has me shivering in the boots I would kick your head in with if you actually had the stupidity
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It would probably make more sense for you to go back and get your High School Equivalency Diploma. I concede that I misinterpreted what you wrote. I infered that since you would somehow have to go somewhere to show digitalunity who the "real" (sic) criminals are that you were going to go to where he was and show him. It hadn't occured to me that, by your own admission now, you live in an entirely
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I bet if those Sprinfield MA police officers were videotaped accusing their superiors of corrup
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This can be useful in detaining people highly suspect of a crime, or in TV shows in increasing drama.
Re:Not final (Score:5, Informative)
The UK has a law where citizens (usually brown ones with beards) can be detained for a month and a half without charge, usually in HMP Belmarsh.
Re:Not final (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, if you fail to reveal a password to storage that may or may not contain information (except the government may decide to believe there is some) then you can go to jail for a very long time even without any charge.
Phillip.
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Nonsense. I'm not sure what the exact name of the charge is - news reports of the only conviction I've heard of say "charged with ... offences under section 53 of RIPA [opsi.gov.uk]" - but it would be something like "Failing to comply with a notice requiring disclosure of encrypted information".
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He is being charged. Actually it looks to be exactly the same case, just that it's 10 days instead of 24 hours.
The need to charge Dymov due to the fact that, for him, was elected as a preventive measure under house arrest, and prosecution must be charged within 10 days from the date of the application of preventive measures.
Re:Not final (Score:5, Informative)
Bullshit. Mod parent way down. Parent is full of it.
The US Constitution permits people to be held on a probable cause determination made by a policeman for up to 48 (forty-eight) hours. After 48 hours there must be judicial review of probable cause or the defendant must be released from custody. That's the Riverside case.
A related provision requires the detained person to be charged within 72 hours of probable cause detention or released. That's the Gerstein case.
The U.S. Constitution sets a minimum standard. States can set standards that are MORE protective of individual rights than the U.S. Constitution, but they cannot go below the constitutional standard.
Re:Not final (Score:4, Informative)
The US Constitution doesn't say anything about an absolute minimum time before being charged. Feel free to look it up, it is not in there. Court cases and Congress have determined the minimum time, but all the US Constitution has to say is that you have the right to a speedy trial (6th Amendment), that Congress can't suspend habeas corpus except during a rebellion (Art I, Sect 9), and that your rights can't be suspended without due process (14th Amendment). How long a person can be detained before being charged depends entirely on how these provisions are interpreted.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/23/2799553.htm [abc.net.au]
Two unnamed US officials say 47 Guantanamo Bay detainees will be held in prison indefinitely, without charge.
They are reportedly too dangerous to be released, but cannot be tried either because the evidence against them is too flimsy or was extracted by coercion.
The outcome will dismay civil liberties groups who hoped US President Barack Obama would end the practice of detention without trial.
"The reality is that although they're talking about holding
"The Law" doesn't always follow the Law (Score:2)
In Palm Beach Florida County Florida they hold people up to 33 days without filing charges . They claim that they do not have to follow Fedral Law because they are a Commonwealth. They also claim that you don't have Miranda Rights, nor do you have a right to have an attorney appointed while in jail for th
I accept your apology (Score:2)
Curfews were ordered in sixteen Florida counties including a 24 hour curfew in the barrier islands of Palm Beach and Singer Island. In addition, close to eight thousand National Guard troops were called in to maintain order. Some of the smaller airports including one in Tallahassee, the state capital, were closed. In addition, all of the popular theme parks were closed for up to two days, which resulted in a loss of $41 million dollars. A number of roads in Palm Beach County were s
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You accept his apology ... for correctly pointing out that you're full of shit?
NOTHING on that page backs up the claims you've made. It doesn't speak about the right to detain suspects in Florida. It doesn't say anything about the "commonwealth". It says nothing about Miranda rights. And, lastly, it doesn't say a fucking thing about martial law.
If anything it shows that you're just making it up as you go along, since the measures mentioned in the article are much laxer than anything you spoke of, and no
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Hey moron.
Hi dumbass!
I was there.
Yay!
It was in the newspapers.
Then you should have no problem providing a link. I'm waiting with bated breath.
The article specifically states that curfews were imposed and that the national guard was called in.
Which doesn't require martial law. Try again?
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You've now had two individuals give a detailed explanation of the problems with your claims, and have been asked for sources three times. You've not only failed to account for the discrepancies in your assertions, but have flatly refused to provide any data and have, instead, fallen back on childish ad-hominem attacks. I know that these facts don't mean much to you, but to any person with an IQ over 90 they are a clear admission that you have no idea what you're talking about. So go ahead, kept sputterin
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That might be illegal.. depending on your country of course. Just FYI.
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Hey, he's from Florida. He can't help it.
DISCLAIMER: I live in Tampa Bay myself...
DISCLAIMER: This was funny. Har har. Laugh and move on.
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I read that link, sounds like the local police were trying to keep the peace. Probably sucks that you can't go out at night (after 10pm) but it was an emergency situation, right? If i was arrested trying to bring food to my family i'd be pissed though. But really i could just wait until 6:01 AM and bring the food over.
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No. That is what I have been saying. At the time I got arrested it was more than four days after the hurricane. All the lights worked, including streetlights. They were letting many cars pass, but I believe they pulled me over because I had an out of state plate (no extermely uncommon if that part of FL.) They were letting people go if they were coming back from the football game, but a women who went
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He might be telling the truth because if he talks to the cops the way he posts on Slashdot, I'm not surprised the cops in Florida gave him special treatment.
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Yeah, but Obama's changed all that. Since the saviour came into power and rescued us from the evil republicans Gitmo has been destroyed. Right?
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Just think of how much worse it could have gotten under mccain/palin
That's the standard? "Better then the really awful person X"? Wow. No wonder Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize
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And if that pesky little law is inconvenient, you label them an "enemy combatant" and it no longer applies! Great huh?
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The ability for a suspect to be released from jail depends on quite a lot of socioeconomic factors such as race, location and their ability to obtain legal representation. In most states, if you have a lawyer, you can obtain Release on own Recognizance pretty quickly if they don't plan on filing charges right away. This depends a lot on what you're suspected of doing.
As for holding people without charging them... terrorism laws have changed a lot of the governments power in this respect. Beyond even the 4t
Do not just type. Do something to help him! (Score:5, Informative)
Please. We should not merely talk and type about this tragedy. We should actually do something to help this victim of the Kremlin.
For example, we could start a fund for his legal defense and possible eventual escape from Russia to the West. For the sake of humanity, we must not allow the Kremlin to kill him. The Kremlin has already killed too many innocent people.
If this policeman dies mysteriously in prison, then I hope that someone -- anyone -- assassinates dictator Vladimir Putin.
Re:Do not just type. Do something to help him! (Score:5, Insightful)
While I do generally agree with your statement, this is something that really caught my eye
is remarkable proof that good people who think and act like Westerners still live in Russia.
possible eventual escape from Russia to the West. For the sake of humanity, we must not allow the Kremlin to kill him. The Kremlin has already killed too many innocent people.
Can I borrow your time machine back to cold war? Being someone who has actually lived in Russia and some time in the neighboring countries too, I don't see this "Western vs Russia" thing or rant about 'Kremlin'. People in Russia are extremely good people and friendly towards another human being. Even more than in western countries or my own country, where people usually are careless about each other. There is corruptness (sometimes bad too), but you do not change everything in a few days after fallen communism. It is getting there and this is another example about it.
But should you think "Westerners" as better persons for some reason? No. In fact, they're losing on that regard.
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Can I borrow your time machine back to cold war?
No you can't. Putin and Bush stole it a long time ago.
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Well Russians are actually nicer people than Americans if you go by prisoners per capita. Here have a look at the map:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/cri_pri_per_cap-crime-prisoners-per-capita&b_map=1 [nationmaster.com]
Russia has a higher murder rate though:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita&b_map=1 [nationmaster.com]
Now I'm conflicted. How do you define nice again?
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Mr Putin, I didn't know you had a slashdot account. How's the weather?
Are we talking about the same friendly Russia that genocides population of "unfriendly" countries and installs puppet governments there to further repress the people? The same one that provokes another country into an attack in order to create jus ad bellum for an invasion and then annexes parts of that country? The one that runs exercise invasions of its neighbor near the border and claims that nuclear weapons could be used preemptively?
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Are you fucking retarded? I address this very issue in the last sentence of my post. Just because somebody else is as bad/worse is not an excuse for terrible behavior. Hell, let's all compare ourselves to Hitler, then we can get away with anything!
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People in Russia are extremely good people and friendly towards another human being.
In reality, this simplistic view is just as wrong as the (more prevalent) opposite one.
The truth is that average Russians can be more friendly in close social encounters, but more hostile outside of them.
From personal experience, if you walk up to a random person you do not know on the street, and ask for directions, you're much more likely to get a friendly response on the streets of Auckland, Vancouver or Seattle than Moscow. Similarly, if you get into some kind of trouble (e.g. beaten up by some punk) on
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Invade Russia during winter at your own peril.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard [edwardtufte.com]
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Isn't Putin just the Prime Minister now? Term limits in Russia limited him despite his popularity as I recall. I am on a phone so I can no check.
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You make two huge mistakes in one short post:
who think and act like Westerners
What? you think only westerners have the courage to stand up for their convictions? Or is it that you think non-westerners cannot possibly think for themselves? I guess you haven't heard of these people before:
Mahatma Gandhi .. do I need to go on?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng
Chinese dissident Hu Jia
Nelson Mandela
If this policeman dies mysteriously in prison, then I hope that someone -- anyone -- assassinates dictator Vladimir Putin.
Nice! calling for the head of state of one of the largest countries to be assassinated!!
Join in the deadpool by posting below (Score:5, Interesting)
I give it 48 hours till he's found dead in his cell by apparent "suicide" by drowning himself in a pissbucket
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You mean how like the CIA recently suicided 3 detainees by hanging in Guantanamo bay?
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368 [harpers.org]
The article seems credible. No way I could verify it obviously but it has enough detail that I think it could be verified easily by the FBI or DOJ. If you could get them to do their job, that is.
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First, if it were me doing the "quieting of an unfavorable", I would seek anything to discredit him first. Get to his family to discredit him as a person, probably with threat of force and some other bribe. Then I would pressure his bosses to show he was on a termination list for something else, like paedophilia or something else quite heinous.
In a case of a cop exposing corruption, and complaining about poor working conditions for the "good cops", this shitting on ever
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First, if it were me doing the "quieting of an unfavorable", I would seek anything to discredit him first. Get to his family to discredit him as a person, probably with threat of force and some other bribe. Then I would pressure his bosses to show he was on a termination list for something else, like paedophilia or something else quite heinous.
The Russian authorities have already demonstrated that they have absolutely no qualms [bbc.co.uk] about killing an unfavourable in a fairly high-profile fashion.
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According to the article he's been in jail for 3 days already, so I'm not sure that's a safe bet.
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In ways it has, but anytime someone blows the whistle on the government there, forget IT!!!
I'm not sure how you think that is different from anyplace else. Paypal just cut off Wikileaks' account, for example. This is their primary means of raising funding.
Corrupt cops act corruptly, film at 11 (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, was anyone really surprised? Mess with bad cops, and you'll come to a bad end. This is unfortunately true everywhere, including the United States.
Re:Corrupt cops act corruptly, film at 11 (Score:5, Insightful)
No matter how common abuses of power are, they should never ever become so mundane as to not be newsworthy.
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Agreed. As the GP pointed out, this happens in the United States as well.
Here [wpxi.com] is a recent story where a teenager was brutally beaten by plainclothes officers, who he alleges never identified themselves as police and he fought back because he thought he was being kidnapped. It is just horrible, and it won't stop until we make it stop.
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No matter how common abuses of power are, they should never ever become so mundane as to not be newsworthy.
not in Russia... Seriously there's a lot of people who have died trying to speak out the problems in Russia... former military, journalists, and the list goes on...
Unfortunatelly when peop...
wait there's someone at the door......
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No matter how common abuses of power are, they should never ever become so mundane as to not be newsworthy.
In Russia, such things have became mundane a long time ago. It was actually rather surprising that he didn't find himself arrested immediately after the video was posted. The usual accusation in such cases is libel/slander, depending on the medium.
In Soviet Russia (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2)
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In present-day Soviet Russia there is still no real police. There is Militsiya [wikipedia.org] !!!
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It is really just police in all but name. It's just an artifact of the time when Soviet Russia, in true communist spirit, had no bourgeois imerialist "ministers", but rather "people's commissars", and no reactionary "army officers", but rather "squad/platoon/company/... commander". The "revolutionary" names were mostly replaced with traditional ones by Stalin, but "militia" remained.
He Has Tarnished The Glory Off? (Score:4, Insightful)
Did he lessen the status of corrupt bosses or the supposed glory of the state. Frankly regardless of which nation does this sort of thing the truth is that human history is dark and wicked and anyone foolish enough to actually believe that any nation's history is glorious needs a mental health professional and a lot of appointments.
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anyone foolish enough to actually believe that any nation's history is glorious needs a mental health professional and a lot of appointments.
Good luck getting 75% of the American public into therapy. We pretty much did away with public funding for mental health services some years ago...
Re: He Has Tarnished The Glory Off? (Score:4, Insightful)
Russia is just following its normal course, nothing to see there and nothing new to expect.
"anyone foolish enough to actually believe that any nation's history is glorious needs a mental health professional and a lot of appointments."
Glory isn't neat and pretty and seemless, but it certainly exists.
Consider the Soviet soldier, who despite being horribly treated by his own government contributed more than any other group to destroying the Wehrmacht. Stalingrad and the many other brutal battles like it indeed had "glorious" outcomes, for glory is when man triumphs over such terrible adversity even it comes from other men.
BTW one thing the Commies got right is war memorials that reflect the sacrifice of their people. Contemplate Mamayev Kurgan sometime...
Re: He Has Tarnished The Glory Off? (Score:4, Insightful)
Any memorials to the 3,000,000 Ukrainians Stalin starved to death for fun? The KGB put posters up at the time saying "It is considered barbaric to eat your children" because people were eating their own children's bodies to try to stay alive. Stalin did not like cannibalism, even if he caused it. What a guy!!
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BTW one thing the Commies got right is war memorials that reflect the sacrifice of their people.
Any memorials to the 3,000,000 Ukrainians Stalin starved to death for fun?
Non sequitur much? What does Holodomor has to do with Soviet WW2 memorials?
By the way, the causes of Holodomor are still very much a debated issue. It doesn't help when both sides are actively falsifying documents. As one recent example, the official, state-run Holodomor "genocide memorial" exhibition in Ukraine used photos from - take that! - U.S. Great Depression [youtube.com], with captions claiming them to be photos of victims of Holodomor.
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Maybe you could let him have your slot. The sessions clearly haven't done you much good ;-)
Good Grief (Score:2)
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So was Ghandi.
The righteous don't give a f*** for their cause is more important than self.
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I'm sure your trophy wife will stick by you, unless you suffer an financial misfortune. I'm guessing he may have children, in which case he may hope they grow up in a world that is a better place than he has had to endure.
Phillip.
He knew what was comming... (Score:2, Informative)
If you mess with the bear, you have to be prepared for the claws.
In most CIS countries the police are corrupt. They have to be to survive, as their official pay is between 50 to 200 USD per month. And you need about 500 USD, so do the math... And you can see the picture.... Now if you also count the men in uniform who own cars that cost upwards of 6 figures "While making 200$"..
Or this guy:
http://tap-the-talent.blogspot.com/2008/12/judge-who-borrowedharvested-2mhr-2m.html [blogspot.com]
Got the money via an OIU...
In these
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In most CIS countries the police are corrupt. They have to be to survive, as their official pay is between 50 to 200 USD per month. And you need about 500 USD, so do the math...
I don't disagree with your overall assessment that the police are often corrupt, but the figures you give are a bit off - pay for a police officer in Russia starts at about 400 dollars a month (11,000 rubles), and outside Moscow you can certainly survive on that - when I was living there last year I could easily buy a day's worth of groceries for 100 rubles (~4 dollars), and I wasn't trying to save money - food grown domestically is just very cheap. And my rent was about 1000 rubles a month - ~$33.
Again, th
Russia Corrupt? No way! (Score:2, Insightful)
Russia, Iran, China, all great examples of what happens when the people get their own way. Some clever bastard comes along and dupes them.
Russia: you overthrew your terrible govt, you had some semblance of democracy, now you have Putin.
Iran: You had democracy, you had the shah, you overthrew the shah, then you voted for a dictatorship again. Good job.
China: you had a civil war, multiple citizens based movements, you ended up with a shitty one. At least you let it happen right?
Out of all 3 China probably had
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Dude, the only period Russia had with some semblance of democracy was between 1. July and 24 October 1917.
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France: Sarkozy
US: Bush and now a clipped Obama blamed for not being able to instantly change everything the republicans did wrong so to punish him, you give the republicans even more power.
Britain: Oh okay these guys never had a revolution but still. Blair?
Holland: Bakellende.
Australia, Japan... the list goes on and on.
As Douglas Adams said, people are a problem.
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Russia: you overthrew your terrible govt, you had some semblance of democracy, now you have Putin.
You do understand why Russia ended up with Putin, though, right?
Russia had democracy, alright. It was also happy to get rid of the "shackles of the past", and was very naive to assume that the further it gets away from them, the better. So it subscribed to the most radical liberal economic (libertarian, for you Americans) theories there were at that point, and started to implement them at full force. Any negative changes were viewed as temporary side effects that would have to be endured until we finally ge
It's more complicated a story than it appears (Score:5, Interesting)
The Dymovsky affair is more complicated than merely a whistle blower cop who had enough, went public, and is now being prosecuted. For starters in his videos his biggest complaints arent about the corruption in the Russian police, but about low pay, long hours, not enough vacation time and not getting overtime pay for overtime hours. Basically his rants aren't about the bad Russian cops but about the bad Russian government that doesnt pay its cops and Mr. Dymovsky in particular enough money. He also signals out his immediate bosses for special attention, but this is because his bosses were trying to get him fired for various things taking BEFORE he put anything on Youtube. Major Dymovsky had a habit of not coming into work for weeks at a time and there were numerous complaints about him basically alleging he himself was extorting various businesses for money before he put anything on Youtube.
Yulia Latynina who is easily the best credentialed opposition journalist in Russia has dismissed Dymovsky as a fraud on her radio show and in editorials. His complaint isnt with the system but with his own place in it -- he is no opponent of the Kremlin, but a guy who was trying to secure his own position.
His own ex-wife has called him mentally unbalanced. He had a messy divorce involving death threats and other assorted stories fit only for the tabloids. The core of the Russian opposition has attempted to distance itself from him which is why you wont find more than a single mention of his arrest on newsru.com. Kasparov's group is the only one that is still seemingly embracing Dymovsky, but that's no surprise as they are the most discredited of the opposition movements in Russia.
Re:It's more complicated a story than it appears (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sure you're right, but it's also true that most whistle-blowers have petty and selfish motives, and that they are often driven by personal grudges (which they tend to have a lot of, since they are generally quarrelsome and problematic people). Deep Throat apparently exposed Watergate because he was bitter about losing a promotion.
It takes an unreasonable person to go up against the system and against the culture of one's organization. These people may not be personally admirable in the way we might like for a Hollywood good-guy/bad-guy story, but that doesn't make whatever revelations they provide less important. Nor does it make it OK to persecute them for it.
Now maybe Dymovsky was arrested for some other shit he was involved in, but given Russia's history with internal critics, that would not be my first guess.
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His own ex-wife has called him mentally unbalanced.
Because of course, when I want the straight, unbiased scoop on someone, I always look to their ex-spouse.
*facepalm*
Re:It's more complicated a story than it appears (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know if there was an extended YouTube version I didn't see, but the one I did wasn't anything of the sort.
Basically his rants aren't about the bad Russian cops but about the bad Russian government that doesnt pay its cops and Mr. Dymovsky in particular enough money.
From what I remember, he was pointing out that the latter led to the former. I also don't remember him singling himself out for a pay rise above and beyond anybody else.
Major Dymovsky had a habit of not coming into work for weeks at a time
Something to do with suffering from stress, and the breakdown leading to the confession on video as he couldn't take it any more?
there were numerous complaints about him basically alleging he himself was extorting various businesses for money before he put anything on Youtube
That was his whole point, wasn't it? He couldn't afford not to, and in fact would be ostracized by his colleagues if he didn't.
Yulia Latynina who is easily the best credentialed opposition journalist in Russia has dismissed Dymovsky as a fraud on her radio show and in editorials.
Fair enough.
His complaint isnt with the system but with his own place in it -- he is no opponent of the Kremlin, but a guy who was trying to secure his own position.
By saying he can't take it any more, and will quite happily quit. Obviously has designs on Putins job (not).
His own ex-wife has called him mentally unbalanced. He had a messy divorce involving death threats and other assorted stories fit only for the tabloids
So he is a Russian Tiger Woods. Big deal. This has nothing to do with anything. I don't know how authentic the video appeal is, but I find the Anonymous Coward posting very unconvincing.
Phillip.
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Yulia Latynina who is easily the best credentialed opposition journalist in Russia
So that Slashdotters have some frame of reference, Yulia Latynina is also the author of the following words (from her 2009 article titled "The open society needs a new McCarthy"):
The concept of "human rights" is diametrically opposite to the concepts of "justice" and "law" ... The defense of "human rights" was born in a struggle with totalitarian regimes ... and when totalitarianism was over, the concept of "human rights" became outdated.
Now, granted, she is an opposition journalist in Russia. However, even
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Also Latynina is a "pet" journalist of regime, everybody knows.
Where "everybody" includes you & your friends?
Latynina is very far from a pet journalist by any measure. Anyone who read any of her books knows that her criticism of the existing is rather scathing. It's just that it comes from an angle very different than what most everyone else does.
Most opposition to the government in Russia today are either socialists and leftist liberals; a few are hardcore libertarians. Latynina's views are essentially the same as those of the U.S. neo-con movement. In particular,
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Ironically, he is accused of "fraud abusing the official position" i.e. corruption. The investigation has started after "an appeal of concerned citizen" in December 2009, a month later his video post. Now, he was sentenced under accusation of threatening witnesses and is held in PTDC.
Unfortunately, Dymovsky is pretty dumb. His speech is intermittent, unintelligent, with many errors (he is a cop after all). He admitted, that during a phone conversation (which was wire tapped) he said, that if he had been fa
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It is not about a policeman, it is about Internet (Score:2)
Dymovskiy is immensely known in Russia, and he get this popularity via Internet, via Youtube videos, which were shown also on many local TV stations and websites in Russia.
His arrest is not about what he said or did. He is not a man anymore, but sort of a media symbol. And it seems this new media, the Internet, disturbs many power holders in Russia.
They introduce a new Internet (Intranet?) with Cyrillic letters in URLs this year. They tried to ban Skype in Russian Federation.
But the Russian Internet communi
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Many people in Russia and FSU are buying computers and connect to the Internet, because they hear that it is where the action nowadays, but not on a boring controlled TV.
The government cannot remove videos from Youtube, and it gives musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers an uncensored venue to express ideas and creativity. And it certainly attracts an audience.
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I want to say that the real changes in Russian society just start to begin. Even cops like this Aleksey Dymovskiy started to notice that something is wrong, that the society has its sicknesses, which it has to address and treat, in order to heal.
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In Soviet Russia (Score:2)
In Soviet Russia (Score:2)
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In Soviet Russia whistle blows you!
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I was actually going to go with:
In Soviet Russia, Youtube watches you!
Re:He's probably safer in jail... (Score:4, Funny)
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Does it not happen that someone says in a heat of a moment that he/she do this or that bad thing to someone? But saying something and doing it actually are different things, aren't they?
If he said something in a private telephone conversation I am not sure that it constitutes a crime. Or maybe I am mistaken? Any legal opinion?