Alexei Alexandrovich Dymovsky

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Alexei Dymowski, on November 22, 2009

Alexei Alexandrowitsch Dymowski ( Russian Алексей Александрович Дымовский ; born August 28, 1977 in Blagoveschensk ) is a former Russian militia major of the anti-drug authority in Novorossiysk . In November 2009, he denounced grievances and corruption in the Russian executive in a high-profile appeal on the video platform YouTube . He was arrested in early January 2010, but fined two months later and released for the time being.

Life

He grew up in the Russian Far East in the Amur Oblast near the Chinese border and finished secondary school in Svobodny in 1992 , where he then began training at the Technical Railway School, which he completed in 1996. He then completed his military service until 1998 and began a career as a police officer with the Russian Interior Ministry in February 2000 . Until 2004 he worked in the Department of Internal Affairs (OWD) in Svobodny and in 2005 moved to the Directorate for Internal Affairs (UWD) in Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region . In 2007 he was assigned to the homicide department and in 2008 he moved to the drug control department. In May 2009 he was promoted to major in the militia.

Criticism of the militia

Dymowski had been dissatisfied with the conditions in the Russian militia for a long time. In 2007, he tried to go public for the first time by calling Putin on the TV show The Direct Line and asking a question about police arbitrariness in Novorossiysk. At that time, however, he was not switched through to the president. In the following time he suffered from the strenuous working conditions as a militiaman, which made itself felt, among other things, in health problems with his left shoulder. In 2009 he was offered a promotion to major on the condition that he discredited an opponent of his superior by smuggling hashish into his son and then arresting him. In May 2009 he was finally promoted, but without fulfilling the required condition afterwards.

On November 5, 2009, he finally vented his displeasure by recording two video clips and posting them online on YouTube, in which he presented his view of the grievances in the militia. In it, he addresses Prime Minister Putin directly and denounces the corruption within the police apparatus, the poor pay of the lower ranks, the strenuous working conditions with overtime and weekend shifts, as well as the pressure from politicians to provide the best possible crime investigation statistics, which also increases the number of innocent people would go to jail. Finally, he goes into detail about his own immediate problems and explains his conscience about his promotion. He calls the names of his local superior and incriminates himself in a kind of confession. Within a short time these two videos were clicked several hundred thousand times and Russian and international media reported about them. The matter turned into a political scandal.

He was suspended from duty shortly afterwards and was accused of working with foreign NGOs such as USAID . This was intended to discredit his allegations as foreign-controlled propaganda. On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, Dymowski, who had traveled to Moscow , gave a press conference at which he defended himself against the allegations. This quick organization of this press work and the fact that he was accompanied by several cars to this appointment, however, reinforced the suspicion that unknown people were behind this simple policeman from the province. Interior Minister Nurgalijew then sent a commission of inquiry to Novorossiysk. On January 22nd, Dymowski was finally arrested and taken to Krasnodar prison. His lawyer complained about the severe detention conditions and said that his client should be silenced by the detention. At the same time, however, more and more police scandals from other regions came to the public, which increased the pressure on politics. In Tomsk on January 20, a journalist had been shot, so four days of the local police chief on the direct instructions of President later Medvedev was dismissed. In Moscow at the same time, an OMON special unit publicly revolted against their superiors on charges of corruption. As a result, 19 high-ranking officials from the Interior Ministry, including the Moscow police chief, and 16 other police chiefs in the regions were fired.

At the end of March 2010, Dymowski was sentenced to a fine of 1,330 euros, as reported by the Kommersant newspaper . However, according to other sources citing the AFP , the fine is 2,500 euros. Furthermore, a public apology should have been requested from him. He was initially released.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A message to Putin and its consequences . In: Der Standard , November 9, 2009
  2. ↑ Major Dymowski unpacks . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 11, 2009
  3. ↑ What is really behind the militia scandal? In: Die Welt , November 14, 2010
  4. ↑ Demonstration against police violence in Russia (PDF) cash.ch, January 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Elite squad denounces corruption within their own ranks . In: Die Welt , February 1, 2010
  6. ↑ Corruption, abuse, arbitrariness: Russia's security system in disrepute . In: Wiener Zeitung , March 9, 2010
  7. ↑ Police officer convicted of YouTube videos . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , March 26, 2010
  8. ↑ Policeman has to pay . ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung online, March 24, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Dymowski, Alexei Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дымовский, Алексей Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian major in the militia
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Blagoveshchensk