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2011-08-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ineffective Police Resulting In The Rise Of Vigilantism In Russia

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Posted by tipover 2011-08-05 17:46|| 2011-08-05 17:46|| Front Page Top

#2 SAGRA, Russia When Sergei the Gypsy wanted to show who was boss in this tiny settlement on the edge of the Ural Mountains, he gathered a posse of armed men and drove down a narrow road through the night, illuminating the forest with his headlights.

They are coming to kill us, one of the villagers shouted, and Viktor Gorodilov, who was in his bathhouse, threw on some clothes and joined a small group of men with shotguns, pitchforks, chains and knives to guard the road. We just had three guns, including me, said Mr. Gorodilov, 56. But they didnt expect any resistance, and we had them in our hands.

His son Andrei threw a pine cone and shouted, Grenade! Women hiding behind trees screamed curses and abuse.

One of the raiders was killed, and the convoy fled, shooting to cover its retreat. It was like The Magnificent Seven! the younger Mr. Gorodilov said, recalling a movie in which a small band holds off an armed attack.

The encounter a month ago was the culmination of a feud between villagers in this hamlet of just 130 people and an interloper real name: Sergei Lebedev who they believed had taken up residence here to operate a base for the drug trade.

Since then, Sagra has become a catchword for a spate of violence around the country in which people have banded together to defend themselves in the absence of police protection. Whats going on in this country is that the government isnt protecting anyone, Mr. Gorodilov said.

For nearly five minutes, by her count, a resident named Tatyana Gordeyeva tried to persuade a police dispatcher on the telephone to connect her to a station. When help finally came, she said, the battle had been over for two hours.

The police are corrupt or lazy or politicized, and its the same all across the country, said Konstantin M. Kiseyov, academic secretary of the Institute of Philosophy and Law in Yekaterinburg, which is 25 miles from the village. So people must protect themselves. They cant count on the government or its structures. That is why the country is turning into one big Sagra.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-05 19:39|| 2011-08-05 19:39|| Front Page Top

#3 See also WAFF > [SpaceWar] RUSSIA GIVES [sovereign] TERRITORY TO CHINA (ARE RUSSIANS AFRAID?), in formal transfer to end long-standing riverine border dispute.

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* SAME > 9-11 INSIDE JOB "IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCEAL", SAYS VALDIMIR PUTIN, ergo its nonsensible to argue or believe that US INTEL Agencies are directly involved in the 9-11 attack agz thier own Country.

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Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-05 22:09|| 2011-08-05 22:09|| Front Page Top

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