and many of them went on to work in the riot police.〜Vasily Yaschikov, a member of the “first hundred,” division, is a native of Donetsk who resettled in Moscow. He is a veteran of the Ukrainian conflict.
5/13 The former Kremlin advisor (Gleb Pavlovsky) says authorities previously coopted nationalistic groups to do their dirty work. But this was usually of the level of the police or FSB, who fostered close links with certain hooligan and anti-immigrant networks./ “I left when Medvedev was(