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This puts London student protests to shame, this is how you deal with civil unrest OMON stylee.

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/330396.html

I think there's some excellent photography there actually, I particularly like #38 - "truncheon cam" :cool:

Don't feel too sorry for the civillians, these guys are racist thugs.

A good feel for what you might see at the 2018 World Cup too - on both counts!

Moral of the story, don't mess with OMON :thumbs:
 
I love the way these big brave thugs cover their faces - probably in case their mum sees them on TV!!!:lol:
 
Guy with the ski mask that looks like a clown is great.

The spear chucker - very camp, and what's the guy in the background doing? Looks like he's picking up a new Xmas wreath!!!

The copper checking his shoe for dog poop.... or should that be blood!!!!
 
Excellent work - the photographer, that is...
Love the juxtaposition of red flares and blue camo uniforms - works really well...
Some very good imagery there...
 
I wonder what OMOH looks like in the mirror?

Is the copper checking for dog poop or student/protester? Can he spot the difference?
 
Nod said:
I wonder what OMOH looks like in the mirror?
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Make sure you ask that of them if you ever see them in the flesh. They are renowned for their sense of humour :bat:

Arkady2 said:
Excellent work - the photographer, that is...
Love the juxtaposition of red flares and blue camo uniforms - works really well...
Some very good imagery there...
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In all seriousness, I did think that tog had done a rather excellent job.

gramps said:
No doubt a busy time for the Russian equivalent of the IPCC then. ;)
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Funnily enough, they don't seem to have one :thumbs:
 
There's some top photography there. Love the line dancing photo with the camp copper.

Who is the dude that rocks up in 68&69 with the stars on his shoulders?

And why are the thugs kicking someone on the floor in 75?
 
Kev M said:
Who is the dude that rocks up in 68&69 with the stars on his shoulders?
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The head of the Moscow police Vladimir Kolokoltsev... BIG MAN!

And why are the thugs kicking someone on the floor in 75?
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The whole thing is about racism against people perceived as being non-Russian, in particular from the Kavkaz. Looks like that guy has a bit of a tan, so they are attacking him :'(
 
Something like that is always messy.
 
Restrained, I thought - usually they opt for the 5.45mm baton instead...
 
No, the MVD haven't shot many people lately... you normally see them with the KS23 shotgun - developed for riots back in "good old days"... its made from a 23mm aircraft cannon barrel 8)
 
pretty shoddy dance troop IMHO

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Arkady2 said:
Oh, like they advertise the event...lol
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I did say "haven't shot *many* people lately". Actually, they've shot quite a few but not during this kind of thing. The devil's in the detail :clap:

The days of putting down food riots and strikes with machine gun fire are a few years back now (have you read "Red Plenty"? Excellent book!)
 
These aren't shot with a Lo-mo are they?







Very VERY good for crowd shots. Exposure, composition, differential focusing its all there. Shame we didn't get such good shots of the riots in London.
 
Stumpy said:
These aren't shot with a Lo-mo are they?
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Canon 5D MkII with an EF 16-35mm f/2.8L, judging by the EXIF data.

Cracking images, but reading the captions in translation, I'm seriously concerned by some of the motivations and behaviour of the demonstrators. :|

edit: Google Chrome translations

08. Girls 15-16 years old screaming "Death to Cobra!" and "Russia for the Russian!"
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21. The crowd chanted: "Glory to Russia, the Caucasus suck!" "Russia is for Russian, Moscow for Muscovites!" "In Moscow, Russian master!" Forward Russia, we are with you! " "**** the Caucasus, to ****!" "Suck in the whole of Russia!"
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22. There were also slogans "Down with the Jewish government!" The walls of the buildings on the square was decorated with the appropriate labels. The walls of the entrance building to the shopping mall Okhotny Ryad graced the inscription "Kill the Jews!"
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74. One Uzbek man stripped down to underwear and beaten up on the platform, he lost consciousness. For just watched this about 10 metroshnyh policemen, but they could not do anything.
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75. Beaten nobody prevented, the victim tried to escape, but the fans were so many. Ordinary passengers were hidden between the columns station, the police tried to take people of Caucasian nationality up to the department in order to save.
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Pogrom is a Russian word... :(
 
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desantnik said:
This puts London student protests to shame, this is how you deal with civil unrest OMON stylee.

http://zyalt.livejournal.com/330396.html

I think there's some excellent photography there actually, I particularly like #38 - "truncheon cam" :cool:

Don't feel too sorry for the civilians, these guys are racist thugs.

A good feel for what you might see at the 2018 World Cup too - on both counts!

Moral of the story, don't mess with OMON :thumbs:
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we had ORMO ages ago ;D no one wanted to mess with those guys :D
 
In photo 35 it looks like they exploded his head!

These photos appear to be much much better than the ones of the recent London student protests. Why?
 
Ulfric M Douglas said:
In photo 35 it looks like they exploded his head!

These photos appear to be much much better than the ones of the recent London student protests. Why?
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Because the photographer was very good...?
:shrug:

Also, a bit more room to manouevre by the look of things...the togs in London were literally working within an arm's length for most of the time from the footage and images I've seen...
 
Fantastic images photography wise.

Russia is a country I'd love to go to and photograph. Always had a fascination about it.
 
Musicman said:
Cracking images, but reading the captions in translation, I'm seriously concerned by some of the motivations and behaviour of the demonstrators. :|
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I told you at the top of the thread, these are racist nationalists rioting because one of their moronic comrades was killed (thats him in those placard drawings they are holding) after he (and his mates) attacked an ethnic non-Russian, who pulled a gun and promptly shot the b*****.

They were rioting because the police weren't investigating the case too much.

Check out the nazi salutes going on in those pics...

Russians are fantastic people, but there is a very dark side to their society thats unacceptable really. This type of thing would never have been tolerated under Soviet power, they'd have hunted them down and had them all mining uranium or chopping logs for this s*** :bat:

So once again, take heart in seeing such nasty thugs getting a kicking from OMON.
 
desantnik said:
I told you at the top of the thread, these are racist nationalists rioting because one of their moronic comrades was killed (thats him in those placard drawings they are holding) after he (and his mates) attacked an ethnic non-Russian, who pulled a gun and promptly shot the b*****.
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Yep. I felt the point was worth reinforcing.

There are some strange things going on with some pre-revolutionary currents in Russian society reasserting themselves since the downfall of the USSR.
 
some cracking pics in that thread.
 
the translator does do the justice.

they probably ended up robbing a liquor store like they did in my country :lol:


cracking photography.

and the recent troubles in london reminds me off -

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:lol:
 
Aye pretty crazy stuff. The dude that got shot was also a football hooligan. Most of the people rioting are followers of various football clubs. Basically what you have there is the Russian equivalent of the EDL.
 
I suppose so, that particular MVD generals winter everyday uniform is pretty similar to the good old days equivalent.
 
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