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Vorkuta’s Pensioner Gives Dentures for President
For some residents of Russia’s Vorkuta, the TV intercourse with President Putin ended by trivial injuries Tuesday. For the sake of precaution, the local police arranged security cordon around the central square of the town, where the Channel 1 cameras were installed, and the military, policemen, policemen in private clothes were everywhere. But all those actions coupled with lots of enforcement officers failed to prevent an old woman from unfolding a banner against Russian president.
The description of further and better particulars differs from witness to witness. The injured party - Yevgenia Khaidarova, who co-chairs the local Memorial, insists Vorkuta vice mayor Vitaly Neustroev sprang at her, shouting. He wrested the banner from her grasp and told the persons in cits to deport her from the shooting location. At that moment, Khaidarova said, her husband, Nagitulla Khaidarov came into view and rushed to defend the spouse. The struggling Khaidarovs were pushed out of the square, handed in to the police and released some time latter. But the brush cost the cutting dentures to Khaidarov and an arm twist to his wife.
The other party to the conflict – Vitaly Neustroev – said he was eyeing the events but knew nothing of the dentures knocked out. “I told her [Yevgenia Khaidarova] it was the federal action. What is the good of those posters against president? And she gave it to me. I still have it,” Neustroev specified.
Channel 1 producer Pavel Kidisyuk offered his interpretation According to Kidisyuk, they had an incident in Vorkuta with not quite sober and not quite sane persons, who attempted to disturb the work of the camera crew.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 28, 2005
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