I was beaten only lightly in comparison to Chechens-regular procedure of making one crawl over the floor under police sticks blows while one is being taken to see the operative officer the first time.
People there are mostly ordinary ones-young guys that have no relationship to the war going around.
Obtaining testimony by torture is well-known Russian tradition. But I have to say that most of that was pure sadism, namely absolutely ungrounded tortures of people.
If I am sued for perjury, I am ready to show witnesses, but I am not going to disclose them now.
About Putin: People in western countries should understand that a hand of a politician put into a hand of a criminal does not stay pure, but becomes criminal too.