“Now the main event of the second half of the year (I emphasize: the main event of the second half of the year), in addition to Nobel Prize [российского журналиста Дмитрия] Muratova, in addition to the fourth wave of the epidemic, it is still the publication of the torture archives. These are all the mops. And the mop has become such a visual symbol of Russia, “he said.
The writer noted that the word “cleaning”, which could be associated with “mop” – “is also forever compromised.”
“We imagine at this word not cleaning clothes, not cleaning potatoes, but cleaning rows. Thinning. but because we know what they are doing with this mop.And no matter how we look at Russia today, you listen to another propagandist and you feel that he has a mop behind him, that he is planted on this mop, like a bibabo, and that through this The mop is manipulated. He is guided by this mop. You look at the suffering of the people and you understand that the people suffer precisely from this: they have driven this mop quite deeply to him, “Bykov explained.
According to him, in Russia “one thing is constantly happening – a scene from” Khrustalev, a car “, which is still so terribly repeated in Loznitsa’s wonderful film” Gentle “.
“The scene of rape, and rape with a kvach or a stick, which imitates the state vertical. You look at the state vertical, and you see a mop. This is a terrible thing. But, you know, life then becomes unbearable when it has a visual symbol. When barbed wire becomes the main thing. a symbol of the state. I hope that I will not offend anyone’s feelings if I say that the main symbol of politics and culture in 2021 is the mop. Awful, yes, but nothing can be done about it – it’s already visualized, “Bykov said.
October 4, head of the human rights organization Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin stated on Facebook that he received more than 40 gigabytes of video materials, photos and documents “proving that Sonderkommando of undercover FSB and FSIN agents operate in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who, on instructions from their curators, torture and rape prisoners.” According to the human rights activist, the security officials needed the video as compromising evidence on the prisoners.
According to Osechkin, the archive was given to him by a programmer from Belarus Sergei Savelyev, who was serving time in the Saratov region and servicing cameras and video recorders in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov.
5 october Gulagu.net published the first two videos of torture and rape of prisoners at the tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service No. 1 in the Russian city of Saratov. The project provided a number of videos to journalists.
After the video was released, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on sexual abuse of prisoners, and the head of the Saratov prison hospital, Pavel Gatsenko, was fired.
Saveliev told October 19, that after his release, Russian security officials interrogated and searched him, trying to find a USB flash drive or laptop with videos that he took out of prison. He agreed to cooperate, but decided to flee the country and soon ended up in France, where he asked for political asylum.
On October 23, it became known that Savelyev was put on the wanted list in Russia. As RIA Novosti writes, the Saratov court arrested the man in absentia for two months from the date of his actual arrest. He is accused of illegal access to computer information during his stay in the colony.
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