A few years ago in Yekaterinburg, a story about how a policeman who returned home shot a neighbor because he did not heed his remark and did not stop smoking in the entrance caused a wide resonance (in 2011, Major of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavel Miroshnikov in this way got rid of his 29-year-old neighbor, a video engineer Evgenia Ilyushchenko).
Then the police were “reformed” into the police, plus the Russian Guard was put on the neck of the Russians and many others, also in uniform … And it became easier: now you can shoot a person not even at the entrance, but in his own apartment, and not after the service, but “ in execution”, practically in front of elderly parents, one of whom, for “validity”, is recorded as a heroically rescued hostage. Something like this is a creepy story about murder law enforcement officers of a 27-year-old Yekaterinburg citizen Vladimir Anatolyevich Taushankova.
The situation, at first carefully concealed by the police and the National Guard (in the Sverdlovsk region, the Zolotov department is headed by Konstantin Shurshin), now commented even by Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskovand in Moscow, near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, protesting youth are picketing against the arbitrariness of the security forces.
Public indignation is reinforced by the fact that the police and the National Guard stormed the Taushankovs’ apartment late in the evening of May 31, 2020, although the “attacker”, allegedly persecuted for allegedly “robbery” stealing four rolls of wallpaper in the store on the same day, at the time of the absurd assault clearly did not represent any threats (his father openly confirms this). It was possible to figure everything out calmly, without demonstrative mask shows. But one of the law enforcement officers, as they say, went on principle? At the cost of human life…
Bursting into the apartment, SOBR officers killed Taushankov with three shots. After that, “the commando went into the room. Tells me:
That Vladimir could steal rolls of wallpaper from the store, Anatoly Alekseevich does not believe. According to him, the son made good money. After his death, he found 50 thousand rubles in his bag.
A few days later, forced to explain, the National Guard calls the murdered man “previously convicted of drug trafficking.”
Vladimir’s parents call it a lie. “He graduated from my SINCH. He had his own company. He paid salaries to his employees. And lately he had an online business,” says the father. Vladimir was his only son.
According to the editors, Taushankov Vladimir Anatolyevich until last year was an individual entrepreneur in the retail trade of toys. In addition, until 2014 he had his own company Metropol-Invest (TIN 6673250799). If this is the same Taushankov (and public business registers do not reflect other persons with identical full names), then it is unlikely that this is the profile of a recidivist criminal whose apartment is to be stormed by 20 fighters using firearms. Parents who became, in fact, witnesses killings his only son, in shock: “There were so many of them! Why kill? They could just twist it.”
So far, the police and the National Guard are only verbally declaring that they are right. Neither the video of the crime nor the recording of a large-scale special operation against one robber was published by law enforcement officers.
how informs “Mediazona”, “in Moscow on Petrovka pass single pickets against police violence. The reason for them was murder fighters of the National Guard of Yekaterinburg resident Vladimir Taushankov, whom suspected in a robbery attack on the store for a few rolls of wallpaper. According to the security forces, the young man who closed himself in the apartment could take his own father hostage, and in the past he was convicted of drugs. The Taushanks’ parents, who witnessed his death, deny this.
What happened
On May 31, Vladimir Taushankov, a 27-year-old resident of the ZhBI district in the east of Yekaterinburg, entered the Leo store on Vladimir Vysotsky Street. He was wearing a blue jacket, with a backpack over his shoulders and without a mask on his face. In a store that sells household goods, Taushankov was interested in wallpaper: he had already begun repairs in the apartment a long time ago …
An employee of the Leo store on Vladimir Vysotsky Street, who answered the phone, told the correspondent that another shift was now working, and eyewitnesses to the incident with Taushankov were being summoned for investigative actions. Until the end of the week, they are unlikely to return to work, one of her colleagues has an “injury”. The interviewee declined to comment further.
To pursue Taushankov, according to the employee “Leo”, which leads E1, a loader with a crowbar in his hands and one of the buyers went. Two people, one of whom holds bags in his hands, and the other an ice pick, removed surveillance camera at the entrance to Taushankov’s house. The Yekaterinburger, looking around, hurried to the entrance to catch his breath in the elevator (from the store to his house on Rassvetnaya Street less than 500 meters); his pursuers retreated.
At about 19:00 on May 31, the saleswoman “Leo” called to police department No. 2 to report the theft of four rolls of wallpaper worth 8,000 rubles. The operatives established the home address of the alleged kidnapper, but he did not open the door for them.
The police had been on duty at the door of the apartment for several hours when his father Anatoly came to Taushankov. He opened the door, followed the guest inside tried the security forces came in, but Vladimir used a gas canister. The son and father remained in the apartment.
Storm, writes The checkpoint began closer to midnight, when the National Guard SOBR arrived at the scene.
At what point the commandos opened fire is unclear; on the door of the apartment in the castle area and below stayed bullet holes. Vladimir Taushankov died on the spot. The stories of parents and security officials about what happened contain several fundamental discrepancies.
Why did SOBR storm the apartment?
Version of the security forces
National Guard explains:
Parents version
Taushankov’s father in an interview with E1 toldthat he spoke with the security forces before the assault:
At the same time, Anatoly Taushankov insists that he was safe and his son did not take him hostage.
His mother Hope Taushankovawho came to her son’s apartment, also claimsthat Vladimir and Anatoly were calmly talking to each other. She herself at that moment was standing under the door in the stairwell.
Did the deceased have a weapon in their hands?
Version of the security forces
On the morning of June 2, the National Guard for the first time commented what happened. According to the security forces, SOBR fighters opened fire to kill, as the Yekaterinburg resident “held in his hands an object directed in their direction, outwardly similar to an automatic weapon, made threats and behaved aggressively.”
Another version of the enforcers
At the same time, in response to a request, which the editors also received On the morning of June 2, the Directorate of the National Guard for the Sverdlovsk Region claimed that during the assault, Vladimir Taushankov directed not an “object resembling a weapon” at the SOBR fighters, but a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Press Secretary of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh did not answer the question of whether a criminal case was initiated under article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal trafficking in weapons), and forwarded all questions to the National Guard, although the article is under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The press service of the Sverdlovsk Department of the National Guard reported that they had nothing to add to what had already been said and advised them to call Moscow.
Father version
Vladimir’s father Anatoly Taushankov told E1.ru that during the storming of the apartment his son used only a can of pepper gas. “But he didn’t shoot. I sprayed from a spray can and only, ”the man claimed. According to him, his son was shot precisely because he used this means of self-defense. At the same time, Taushankov Sr. confirmed that Vladimir had an airsoft weapon at home …
Has the victim been convicted of drug trafficking?
Version of the security forces
In the comments of the National Guard emphasizedthat the victim had previously been convicted of drug trafficking.
Mother version
Nadezhda Taushankova categorically denies that her son had a criminal record. “He never even had a drive to the police.
The GAS “Pravosudie” system contains eight court decisions in criminal cases against people named Taushankov, but among them there is not a single Vladimir and not a single sentence under the article on drug trafficking.