The Petrovic crime family is the biggest Russian Mafia organized crime family in the United States, led by Kenny Petrovic. “As long as there are heightened tensions because of the arrests, as long as I receive threats, as long as there remains no official position about my request for government protection, and if it is given, then to what degree those measures will be enough for my and my family’s safety, I can’t be safe in Russia,” she said.A Petrovic convoy being ambushed by The Lost MC, 2008 “We remain extremely concerned for the safety of Yevgeny Makarov and the thousands of others detained in Russian pre-trial detention centres, penal colonies and police stations where allegations of torture and other ill-treatment are rife and investigations are rare,” the human rights NGO said in a statement on Monday.īiryukova told the Guardian that while Wednesday’s arrest of the officers was an “important stage” in the investigation, it was just one among many factors that would determine when, and if, she would return to Russia. Makarov has been transferred to another prison colony, where he has continued to be targeted by prison guards, a member of a presidential human rights council told Russian media this week. Amnesty International has demanded that the Russian government protect her and Makarov during the investigation. “According to prisoners who have already been released, the use of violence was very widely practised in this prison colony.”īiryukova revealed earlier this week that she had fled Russia after receiving death threats via an intermediary. “We’re talking about torture that happened in relation to prisoners unconnected to our case,” Biryukova said, adding she could not go into specifics. The agency that oversees Russia’s penitentiary system has announced it will investigate the use of violence at the prison, which activists say was widespread.īiryukova said that she had received complaints about violence in this prison from 50 people who had been imprisoned at Corrective Facility 1 outside Yaroslavl, a city nearly 200 miles north-east of Moscow. Russian prisoners are often interned at remote corrective colonies and periodically stage hunger strikes or engage in self-harm, like slashing their wrists with razors, to protest against harsh prison conditions.īut rarely is there video of what goes on behind the scenes and the video of the beating of Makarov, who was said to have sworn at an officer, has prompted heightened scrutiny. Russia has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, surpassed only among G20 countries by the United States. But are scared of publicity, so it’s one of a few measures that can move this case forward from a standstill.” The case “needs publicity because I don’t trust in a fair investigation in our country. “I was convinced to give the video to Novaya Gazeta because these kinds of cases require wide publicity,” Biryukova told the Guardian on a social network site from a location outside Russia. Lawyer Irina Biryukova, representing Yevgeny Makarov, has fled Russia with her family after death threats.
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