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Interior Ministry to inquire in Moscow police after kidnapping.

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MOSCOW, August 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Interior Ministry intends
to find out how policemen suspected of kidnapping a businessman were
employed in police. On Monday the Moscow main police department will
launch a service inquiry, which First Deputy Interior Minister Mikhail
Sukhodolsky ordered.
"The chiefs of the public order and recruitment departments of the
Interior Ministry were instructed to hold a service inquiry in the Moscow
main police department over the kidnapping committed by policemen," the
press center of the Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. "This service
inquiry is targeted at exposing causes and conditions of the crime and
also at finding out the circumstances of the recruitment of these
policemen and the control over police service," the press center reported.
"The inquiry will give assessment to the work of senior police
officers to fulfill the instructions earlier given by the Interior
Ministry top officials to observe the law by Moscow police, build up the
service discipline, improve the professional training and to create a good
moral climate in the police staff." The service inquiry will last until
September 7, 2010.
Last Saturday in western Moscow four policemen from the police patrol
battalion in the Central Administrative District were detained hot on
their traces, after the latter kidnapped the businessman right before the
eyes of his wife. The woman called the police immediately that detained
the kidnappers, namely assistant commander of the platoon Maxim Alisov and
his subordinates Artyom Ponosenko, Mikhail Merkulov and Yevgeny Di-Moduno.
A criminal case was instituted against them.
Immediately after the crime Moscow chief police officer Vladimir
Kolokoltsev dismissed public security chief police officer in the Central
Administrative District Colonel of Police Khamid Abdryakhimov, who was in
charge of the patrol service.
For the last few months it is not the first case of crimes committed
by policemen. The Interior Ministry stated more than once that the
ministry is waging and will wage an uncompromising struggle with those
policemen, who violated the law and put a shame on the honour of police
service. In this respect, the Interior Ministry is planning in the
ministry's reform to give close attention to the selection of police
staff. Specifically, candidates for police service will have to pass a
polygraph test in order to find their motivation for the police service
and to tighten the control over discipline in police units and to
supervise how policemen observe the law.

.Police detain 15 suspected attackers on rock festival viewers.

MOSCOW, August 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The police detained hot on their
traces 15 people suspected of an attack on viewers of the rock festival
Tornado in the city of Miass, the Chelyabinsk Region, a source in the
regional police told Itar-Tass.
"Fifteen people suspected of this crime were detained at 10.30 pm
Moscow time on Sunday," the source said. "The detainees are being
interrogated and the police are searching for their accomplices," the
source said.
About 30-40 young people attacked at about 8 pm local time (6 pm
Moscow time) spectators just before the end of the rock festival that was
held at the children's holiday home named after Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. The
eyewitnesses noted that the attackers were armed with sticks, metallic
rods and clubs. Some viewers claimed that they heard gunshots. At the
moment of the attack the punk rock band Tarakany performed at the stage
and interrupted the concert right after the incident. Some 3,000 viewers
were attending the festival.
According to the latest reports of the Chelyabinsk regional police, 11
people were injured in the attack and were hospitalized then. No
casualties were reported.

.Memorial plaque to Soviet labor hero Stakhanov unveiled in Ukraine.

DONETSK, August 30 (Itar-Tass) -- A memorial plaque in honor of Soviet
labor hero Alexei Stakhanov was unveiled in the coal-mining city Tores on
Sunday. The memorial plaque was placed at the building housing the
executive committee of the city council.
The initiator of the movement for high work productivity passed 20
last years of his life in this small coal-mining city. After breaking a
coal production record in 1935 Stakhanov, who recovered 14 standard coal
volumes for a shift, was sent for education in Moscow from Kadiyevka
(currently the city Stakhanov in the Lugansk Region). Upon graduation in
1941 from the Industrial Academy he worked as a chief of the shift at a
coalmine in Karaganda, then in the Soviet people's commission of the
coalmining industry. Mining engineer Alexei Stakhanov came back to the
native coal basin Donbass in 1957. In the town Chistyakovo in the then
Stalin, currently Donetsk Region, several years later named after French
Communist leader Moris Tores, Stakhanov was appointed as a deputy director
of the Chistyakovanthracite trust and then went to work at the coalmine in
1959. The labour hero coalminer died in the same town in 1977. A new
monument was unveiled on Stakhanov's tomb on the eve of his record
anniversary and Coalminer Day.
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