Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube

AHuxley notes a series of YouTube videos that have gone viral in Russia, in which senior police officer Alexei Dymovsky — in full uniform — details police corruption and calls on Vladimir Putin to act. "[Dymovsky says:] 'Maybe you don't know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I'm ready to tell you everything. I'm not scared of my own death. I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.' His series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and have spread across Russia. Dymovsky was promptly fired after the clips spread across the Internet, and a local prosecutor has opened an investigation into libel. An interior ministry source accused him of working for foreign agents and hinted that the format of Dymovsky's complaint was a problem, using a medium that remains largely free of government control." It's best to visit the Global Post link with NoScript and Flashblock enabled. Here's a Google cache link in case it's needed.

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Dead man walking

[mrmeval]

I doubt much will come of this. Putin is a putz.

Re:Dead man walking

[Monkey-Man2000]

I doubt much will come of this. Putin is a putz.

Except, a ridiculous number of deaths and other shady activities have resulted from similar criticism under Putin (e.g., journalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#Under_Putin) And of course, Ukrainian politicians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#Dioxin_poisoning) and defectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#Illness_and_poisoning). This policeman's prosecution and/or death are imminent. . .

Re:Dead man walking

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to go far back in time, Trostky is a more well known example.

Re:Dead man walking

[Monkey-Man2000]

If you want to go far back in time, Trostky is a more well known example.

How so? I am given to understand he was prone to piercing headaches and died as a result thereof.

You sir, are a fool or a very good troll given Trotsky's death and his experience with "piercing headaches": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination In either case, I salute you!

Re:Dead man walking

[Ergasiophobia]

"On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his home in Mexico by a NKVD agent, Ramón Mercader, who buried the pick of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull." That sounds like a piercing headache to me.

Re:Dead man walking

[leereyno]

Lives improved????

I don't know what kind of lies they're teaching you, but that is just flat out wrong in every way.

Repressions and famines occurring in the Soviet Union under the regimes of Lenin and Stalin described in the Black Book of Communism include:

        * the executions of tens of thousands of hostages and prisoners, and the murder of hundreds of thousands of rebellious workers and peasants from 1918 to 1922 (See also: Red Terror)
        * the Russian famine of 1921, which caused the death of 5 million people
        * the extermination and deportation of the Don Cossacks in 1920
        * the murder of tens of thousands in concentration camps in the period between 1918 and 1930
        * the Great Purge which killed almost 690,000 people
        * the deportation of 2 million so-called "kulaks" from 1930 to 1932
        * the deaths of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) and 2 million others during the famine of 1932 and 1933
        * the deportations of Poles, Ukrainians, Moldavians and people from the Baltic Republics from 1939 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1945
        * the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941
        * the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1943
        * the deportation of the Chechens in 1944
        * the deportation of the Ingush in 1944.(p. 9-10) (See also: Population transfer in the Soviet Union)

The Black Book of Communism

Suggestion

[2.7182]

He leaves Russia asap!

Re:Such a selfless act...

[klapaucjusz]

Someone do a wikipedia article on him quick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Dymovsky

Noscript AND flashblock don't help

[SgtChaireBourne]

I dunno man, living on an entirely different continent, I am very concerned over my IP being logged by viewing a few damn YouTube videos from Russia. I better install Tor as well and go down to Starbucks with a brand new netbook, just in case.

No Script and Flashblock don't help if you're running flash anyway.

It's potentially more than the video, watching that using flash puts for all practical purposes a backdoor on the computers of an interesting group, especially those within Russia. Idiots that use flash and javascript are almost as bad as the ones that set up sites to depend on them for operation. Again, this is a case where using open standards would not just help get the message out but help protect the identities, interests, and machine integrity of those receiving the message.

Basically there is a severe show-stopper every few weeks. Here's a 1 minute search, taking longer to post here than to find in Google:
2009: Flash Origin Policy Issues
2009 also: New attacks exploit vuln in (fully-patched) Adobe Flash: Browse and get owned
2008: Adobe Flash exploit raises concern
2007: Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites
There's plenty more where that came from. Again, it was 1 minute of searching.

Re:Noscript AND flashblock?

[Anonymous Coward]

If the editors are going to advice us against visiting TFA, they might as well have provided some more detail in TFS as well as a direct link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vB2a15dOU

dymovskiy.ru

[Anonymous Coward]

This cop dude has a website: http://dymovskiy.ru/

Please don't /. it (it's in Russia anyways), use Google translation to english instead.

Re:Downloadable videos?

[rnaiguy]

the two links just above the horizontal ine on his website: http://dymovskiy.ru/

or: http://dymovskiy.ru/video/1.avi

http://dymovskiy.ru/video/2.avi

Re:Now that's hilarious ...

[AdmiralXyz]

Russia has been on a steady trail back to the oppression and control of the USSR days..

They never really left.