Peak hour 08/05/1996 (1996)

Guest of the program: Vladimir Kolesnikov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Main topics and issues discussed in the studio:

1. Where is the person detained in Georgia on suspicion of organizing the murder of Vlad Listyev?

Does this person exist?

Is it a man?

2. And it will not work out as with the case of Alexander Me, when an innocent person was detained? ("Igor Bushnev incriminated himself under the influence of police officers" was threatened by Kolesnikov, who " as it is clear from Bushnev's statement, threatened to hang him not only for the murder of an Orthodox priest, but also his wife, who died under a train on the Semkhoz platform.

3. You, by the way, conducted this case and, as far as I remember, Bushnev called you the main falsifier of the case?

4.16 July Anatoly Kulikov said: "We have every reason to believe that the recent terrorist bombings in Moscow were planned in Chechnya." What are these grounds? (The Minister referred to the text of the radio intercept)

5. But anonymous political terrorism is a kind of absurdity...

Why then is the main organizer of the bombings, who, according to Kulikov, is not somewhere, but in Grozny itself, still at large and possibly preparing a new terrorist attack?

6. But the president of the Confederation of the Peoples of the Caucasus, Yusup Soslanbekov, recently quite seriously stated that the July bombings were timed by the Russian authorities to coincide with the visit of American Vice President Albert Gore, in order to prove to America the need to continue the Chechen campaign.

Now, after the Minister's statement, this version is presumably no longer being considered?

7. How much, in general, is provocation possible in such situations?

8. Is the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its anti-corruption minister capable of declaring a serious war on the authorities if such facts are confirmed?

9. Can we say that the first version about the connection of "trolleybus" terrorism with the signing by the President of the next Decree "On urgent measures to strengthen law and order and strengthen the fight against crime in Moscow and the Moscow region" did not justify itself?

10. This Decree should deal a serious blow to crime.

But, very often, people are more afraid of the arbitrariness of the police than the actual criminals.

Norwegian Professor Nils Christie once said: "In modern society, the main danger of crime is not in crimes, but in the fact that the fight against crime can push society on a totalitarian path of development.

How serious, in your opinion, is such a threat?

11. The Memorial Society and the Public Foundation "Glasnost" have asked the Prosecutor General to open a criminal case against Yuri Luzhkov and Anatoly Kulikov, whose public anti-Chechen statements fall within the scope of Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which provides for punishment for " violation of the equality of citizens on the basis of race, nationality or attitude to religion committed by an official."

I understand that you can't discuss your superiors.

Do you even conduct investigations in such cases?

12. Can you tell us how many cases the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened under the article inciting national hatred, how many people were punished?

13. Is this typical only for Nizhny Novgorod, or is this the situation in the whole country? (This fact, in fact, was confirmed by Anatoly Kulikov: "I am concerned that the population of the country does not trust the police."

16. So, the citizens of the country do not trust those who are supposed to protect them.

What, in your opinion, explains this?

In many countries of the world, citizens not only trust law enforcement agencies, but also happily cooperate with them.

It's not our honor.

Why?

Does the Ministry of Internal Affairs do anything to raise the prestige of its organization?

17. There is an opinion that the Ministry of Internal Affairs registers only a small part of the crimes committed.

What is the level of latent, hidden crime in relation to the registered one?

Phone calls:

1 Recently, vigilantes patrolled the streets.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs completely refused to participate in the protection of public order?

2. Why are there still no criminal cases against the society "Memory" and Barkashev, because they are fascists?

3. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been conducting operation "Clean Hands" for a long time, and the end of the land is not in sight.

Is there any effect?