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"In the future, a file (to be supplemented) of participants in the disturbances may be created…"
This is not a quote from a Russian playbook. Although not far off.
This is an excerpt from the training manual "Investigating Mass Disturbances," whose co-authors included the current Deputy Head of the Office of the President Oleg Tatarov and Acting Head of the National Police Maksym Tsutskiridze in 2012 year. Among the literature used in it, incidentally, were Moscow method manuals "on suppressing mass unrest."
In the same book, the authors explained young people's active participation in protests by their "psychological characteristics," "life inexperience," and "level of education."
Tatarov and Tsutskiridze are childhood friends and godfathers who studied together, built careers within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and wrote this manual.
Martyna Bohuslavets, in a column for Ukrainska Pravda, explains how Tatarov's old ties cement his influence over the security bloc and why, under such conditions, a real reboot of the law enforcement system, an honest competition for the head of the National Police, and the overcoming of corruption in the law enforcement sector risk remaining only on paper.
After all, it's difficult to build a modern democratic state with people for whom citizens who take to the streets to defend their rights are, first and foremost, potential "rioters."
Read Martyna Bohuslavets' column 👉 https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/08/17/8048966/
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