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Police Major Alexei Dymovsky from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk in the Krasnodar Territory posted two videos last month on his website accusing his chiefs and colleagues of corruption. Dymovsky addressed his speech to Putin. The video address was also posted on YouTube.com with English subtitles.

The video shows Dymovsky saying department chiefs forced officers to solve nonexistent crimes and even "jail innocent people" to improve statistics and lamenting that ordinary staff were treated "like cattle," had no days off or sick leaves, as well as saying that young people came to work in the police forces on a 12,000 rubles monthly wage ($413) because they knew they would have "tributes."

The Novorossiisk police department said the major has not appeared at work "since August 2009" as he was on sick leave. The department also said it believes Dymovsky should have discussed the problems inside his unit instead of "bringing them up on the web and tarnishing the image

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