MeMyselfAndI
Jun 3rd 2010, 04:54 PM
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In the city of Volgograd, on Ulyanovskaya street, at, approximately, 23:00, three off duty OMON (paramilitary police) troopers, Sergeants Oleg Gurianov, 23, Igor Kostyushko, 26, and Aleksei Kuledin, 32, spotted a young woman, 21-year-old Oksana Tsvetaeva. According to them, she was intoxicated and causing a scene. The girl, though, says it was the OMON men who were drunk, and came on to her with inappropriate language and demands.
At, roughly, the same time, 28-year old Anatoly Kurgan had just walked out the door of a nearby bar, where he had been resting with friends. The Specnaz GRU officer (Major; Specnaz GRU is Russian army's elite, counter terrorist special forces), and Chechen war veteran and his wife were celebrating the birth of their second son.
Anatoly claims he saw ‘three drunken hooligans in police uniforms harassing a young lady’. So, he came to her aid.
What happens next differs greatly, whether you listen to the version of the story told by the OMON members; or that by Major Kurgan. According to OMON Sergeant Kuledin, as his two colleagues were still attempting to restrain the ‘raving, screaming woman’, he turned to Kurgan and ‘politely asked him not to interfere’, at which time Kurgan hit him in the face with a Specnaz combat move that knocked him off his feet and broke his nose. He then dispatched the other two OMON troops in a similar manner while citizen Tsvetaeva walked off the scene.
According, however, to Anatoly Kurgan, he was the one who, at first, simply asked the men wearing OMON uniforms and insignia to leave the girl alone. Kuledin then turned on him, swore at him, and tried to hit him. Kurgan admits that he then defended himself ‘as I was taught in the GRU’. Gurianov and Kostyushko then turned on him as well, prompting him to ‘lay them out’ as well.
Afterward, more uniformed police had arrived on the scene. Going by their notes, Gurianov had cuts on his face, a big black eye, and a dislocated shoulder. Kostyushko suffered a broken finger on his right hand and was missing a tooth. Kuledin, indeed, had a broken nose. Tsvetaeva’s dress had a tear on its right sleeve, and her arm was bruised and scratched in that area. Kurgan had a bloody bruise on his right cheek. It has not been disclosed whether any of the parties was, indeed, in a state of alcoholic intoxication.
The investigation is still ongoing.
Knowing Russian police, they will defend their own in this. Even though they were, probably, ones who were attackers here. Police here are thugs. And thank God for Specnaz. One part of Russian military left where 'honor of officer' still means something.
In the city of Volgograd, on Ulyanovskaya street, at, approximately, 23:00, three off duty OMON (paramilitary police) troopers, Sergeants Oleg Gurianov, 23, Igor Kostyushko, 26, and Aleksei Kuledin, 32, spotted a young woman, 21-year-old Oksana Tsvetaeva. According to them, she was intoxicated and causing a scene. The girl, though, says it was the OMON men who were drunk, and came on to her with inappropriate language and demands.
At, roughly, the same time, 28-year old Anatoly Kurgan had just walked out the door of a nearby bar, where he had been resting with friends. The Specnaz GRU officer (Major; Specnaz GRU is Russian army's elite, counter terrorist special forces), and Chechen war veteran and his wife were celebrating the birth of their second son.
Anatoly claims he saw ‘three drunken hooligans in police uniforms harassing a young lady’. So, he came to her aid.
What happens next differs greatly, whether you listen to the version of the story told by the OMON members; or that by Major Kurgan. According to OMON Sergeant Kuledin, as his two colleagues were still attempting to restrain the ‘raving, screaming woman’, he turned to Kurgan and ‘politely asked him not to interfere’, at which time Kurgan hit him in the face with a Specnaz combat move that knocked him off his feet and broke his nose. He then dispatched the other two OMON troops in a similar manner while citizen Tsvetaeva walked off the scene.
According, however, to Anatoly Kurgan, he was the one who, at first, simply asked the men wearing OMON uniforms and insignia to leave the girl alone. Kuledin then turned on him, swore at him, and tried to hit him. Kurgan admits that he then defended himself ‘as I was taught in the GRU’. Gurianov and Kostyushko then turned on him as well, prompting him to ‘lay them out’ as well.
Afterward, more uniformed police had arrived on the scene. Going by their notes, Gurianov had cuts on his face, a big black eye, and a dislocated shoulder. Kostyushko suffered a broken finger on his right hand and was missing a tooth. Kuledin, indeed, had a broken nose. Tsvetaeva’s dress had a tear on its right sleeve, and her arm was bruised and scratched in that area. Kurgan had a bloody bruise on his right cheek. It has not been disclosed whether any of the parties was, indeed, in a state of alcoholic intoxication.
The investigation is still ongoing.
Knowing Russian police, they will defend their own in this. Even though they were, probably, ones who were attackers here. Police here are thugs. And thank God for Specnaz. One part of Russian military left where 'honor of officer' still means something.