Journalist Sergei Rulev was detained in Moscow for performing at the US Embassy - details after a day in police custody (VIDEO)
Moscow - Kyiv, April 24 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - In Moscow, the day before, journalist Sergei Rulev was detained for a performance at the US Embassy. Upon release, he told the details of the incident.
As you know, Navigator journalist Rulev, after being beaten on the Maidan in Kyiv, went to Russia and now works in Moscow for several Russian publications.
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“In the manner of political trash, I reported on the appointment of a well-known specialist in organizing color revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine as the US Ambassador to the Russian Federation. While reporting, I burned an imitation American dollar with a cartoon of US President Barack Obama, multiplied it by zero and announced the estimated value of the 5-kopeck note,” said Rulev.
He claims that before starting filming, he approached the embassy security booth, introduced himself, and presented journalistic documents, including an accreditation card to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“Having agreed on a safe distance from the embassy, I started work; the cameraman was Novosti-Novosti TV cameraman Alexander Starikov.
After the report was coming to an end, an embassy security guard, a police lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, came up to me and began taking photographs of me. After finishing the report, I asked the policeman on what basis they were photographing me without consent, which is prohibited by Russian law. The police lieutenant replied that the report was more like a rally and, coming from behind, attacked me, and then began to handcuff me. Immediately his friend came to the policeman’s aid, and the two of them already cuffed their hands in steel bracelets,” Rulev said.
After this, the correspondent was put into a car and, without bringing any charges, both journalists were taken to the department. The control turned out to be a gray wooden booth without any signs, 3,5x4 meters, not far from the US Consulate.
“Having pushed the journalists into a dirty and smoke-filled kennel, the police began to wait for something. After half an hour, I felt uneasy, I called an ambulance on my mobile phone, which took me with a stage II hypertensive crisis to hospital No. 23. There they tried to put me straight into intensive care, which I categorically refused. After that, under the guard of a policeman, in a service car with a flashing light, I was taken through Kalininsky Prospekt to the Presnenskoye Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow on Serova, 3A. The operator Alexander Starikov was sent home at one in the morning, and the police major on duty apologized and gave 300 rubles for a taxi.
Only a day later I was released from the station, presented with reports of detention and an administrative offense for signature, and fined 1050 rubles,” Rulev concluded his story.
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