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CCA 4 Thursday 16th October
9.15-10.00 pm
The Operation
Kerstin Nickig
Germany 2007 / 37 Mins
A
small town in Siberia becomes the subject of a brutal police raid. Nobody
knows why. The Operation traces the background to the event.
When Alyosh went to have a smoke outside a club in December 2004, he could not have imagined that he would be beaten up and taken away to spend the night in a police cell. He was not alone- the night ended in a similar manner for at least 347 other inhabitants of Blagoveshensk, a city in Bashkortostan, which is an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. They were victims of a preventive raid ordered by the Ministry of the Interior. The official reason was to reduce crime in the city.
But Ludmila Alexeyeva, from Moscow's Helsinki Committee, sees it differently: at the time of the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, the authorities in Russia were allegedly afraid of unrest in its autonomous republics. Consequently, they attempted to nip any possible civil disobedience in the bud.
What happened in Blagoveshensk was not an isolated incident: at least five other cities in different parts of Russia got the same treatment. Director Kerstin Nickig focuses on one Russian province where people have had to fight for their basic rights.
9.15-10.00 pm
The Operation
Kerstin Nickig
Germany 2007 / 37 Mins
A
small town in Siberia becomes the subject of a brutal police raid. Nobody
knows why. The Operation traces the background to the event.
When Alyosh went to have a smoke outside a club in December 2004, he could not have imagined that he would be beaten up and taken away to spend the night in a police cell. He was not alone- the night ended in a similar manner for at least 347 other inhabitants of Blagoveshensk, a city in Bashkortostan, which is an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. They were victims of a preventive raid ordered by the Ministry of the Interior. The official reason was to reduce crime in the city.
But Ludmila Alexeyeva, from Moscow's Helsinki Committee, sees it differently: at the time of the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, the authorities in Russia were allegedly afraid of unrest in its autonomous republics. Consequently, they attempted to nip any possible civil disobedience in the bud.
What happened in Blagoveshensk was not an isolated incident: at least five other cities in different parts of Russia got the same treatment. Director Kerstin Nickig focuses on one Russian province where people have had to fight for their basic rights.
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