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Statement in connection with a first verdict within the case about mass murder in Kushchovskaya Cossack village
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 A year after the whole Russia was agitated with reports about monstrous crime in Kushchovskaya Cossack village (Krasnodar region) the first verdict upon one of the accused was passed.
It should be reminded that Kushchovskaya Cossack village of Krasnodar region became regretfully known around the whole country after a cruel murder of 12 persons was committed there in the house of Ametovs family. The murdered included the master of the house – farmer, his wife, daughter-in-law and granddaughter, two neighbors as well as guests from Rostov-on-Don – financial director of SC “Aston” Vladimir Mironenko, his wife, two daughters and father-in-law with mother-in-law.
It became clear to everyone at the example of Kushchovka that whole districts in the country live in fear of gangster groups, and everybody participate in the “share” – district authorities, militia, and office of public prosecutor.
It was found out that Tsapko’s gang accused of murder ruled in Cossack village cruelly and with impunity for many years, took land from farmers and committed many murders earlier too. In particular the first condemned Andrey Bykov killed four people before that. Everybody knew what order reigned in Cossack village. Murders, beatings, rapes remained unpunished though it was written about the gang for a long time.
The gang fixed “the right of first marriage night” for itself in Cossack village; dozens student girls were raped by gangsters every year. Olga Bogacheva lost her husband and her son nine years ago – they were killed on the threshold of their own house. Farmer Nikolay Gordik was deprived of his enterprise and registered it to figureheads apprehending for life of his folks. Yevgeny Yushko’s mother was taken to prison after she accused Tsapko’s gang of mass rapes of student girls in public. Slaves from Ukraine lived at the farm of Tsapko himself, and local peasants were in the position of serves.
All these horrors were well-known to militia but it was either “lured” or just afraid of dealing with gangsters. In was no coincidence that a special brigade from Moscow was sent for investigation of the case. And it is no coincidence that many people think that Tsapko had influential patrons in power-holding structures (to say nothing about the fact that his closest partner in crime was the deputy of local Soviet himself). None of them found themselves in the dock, it was only the chief of regional Directorate of home affairs who was replaced, and the chief of district militia department lost his shoulder straps. The proceedings were instituted against the single militiaman of Kushchovskaya, lieutenant colonel Khodych; it was told about him that his people mowed down the cannabis together with gangsters (!), and he was involved into raider captures together with Tsapko himself and controlled local oil products market.
Atmosphere of criminality, corruption and impunity is characteristic not just for a separate Cossack village of Kuban but for the whole region too. In was no mere chance that a full bus of residents of Kuban – from Krasnodar, Sochi, Novorossiysk, Anapa, Timashevsk, Slavyansky, Kavkazsky - came to Moscow in November to tell about raidership, corruption, falsification of criminal cases in their motherland at the press conference. The press conference participants told at the example of their specific misfortunes that “Krasnodar region wallowed in corruption and lie of government bodies … Tragedy in Kushchovskaya Cossack village was an opened abscess on the body of the region but this is just one of the cases that got broad publicity and caused some response”. After the press conference the southerners arranged a picket with demands of resignation of the governor, public prosecutor and chief of Directorate of home affairs of Krasnodar region.
But certainly such situation is not limited to Krasnodar region alone. After events in Kushchovskaya the name of Cossack village became a symbol of outrage reigning in their native places for residents of many regions, and titles “New Kushchovka” appeared on pages of newspapers.
Thus, according to reports from Stavropol region, head of administration of Shpakovsky district deprives the collective farmers of their land registering it on his son and wife. The son of the head of administration who was tried earlier for big fraud became one of largest landowners of the district. Employees of Directorate of home affairs frankly commit sabotage of the progress of investigation and shield the criminals. The residents of the region wrote an open letter to the head of Investigatory committee of Office of public prosecutor A. Bastrykin telling about “necessity of non-admission of repetition of Kushchovka events”.
The press writes about outrage in Tyumen when the lawyer (and, what is especially characteristic, former militia major) Rakhmatullin started taking land from local farmers warning them frankly: “Don’t even try, everything is settled there!”. And indeed any complaints of farmers are lost somewhere: no wonder because the head of Directorate of Federal registration service involved into the problem of juridical registration of land is also former law-enforcer who worked with Rakhmatullin earlier. Reporter of “Komsomolskaya pravda” who told about these events characterized the current situation as origination of “New Kushchovka Cossack villages”.
Mass media wrote more than once about riots of law-enforcers and criminals in Gus-Khrustalny and Alexandrov, Vladimir region, but things haven't got forward an inch.
Director of Moscow bureau for human rights Alexander Brod: “And these are just some examples of “Kushchovka” syndrome in various regions of the country. Power-holding structures, law-enforcement bodies and the whole society should take radical measures so that the whole country would not turn into one big Kushchovskaya Cossack village”. |
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