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By Miriam Elder~Global Post
Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes.
“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,†Dymovsky says in a YouTube message addressed to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
“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.â€
And so Dymovsky continues, in a series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week that have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and caused a firestorm across Russia.
In a country where open criticism is seen as a brief luxury offered by the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, the videos immediately raised questions about Dymovsky’s safety — and the power and fate of the internet in Russia.
One question they did not raise regards the level of corruption and brutality of the Russian police. Those are taken as a given.
he probably doesn’t know that corruption goes all the way to the top,