Landing an airplane on a corn field, the dismissal of doctors, the Golunov case: what is remembered for 2019

The last year of the past decade has been eventful. The Russians admired the landing of the plane on a cornfield, sought the release of the journalist Ivan Golunov, spoke in support of the Khachaturian sisters, survived the dismissal of doctors from the Blokhin clinic, signed a petition in support of the transplantologist Mikhail Kaabak, and also searched for Lisa Kiseleva, who disappeared in Saratov. About the most striking events of the outgoing year in the material RT.

“We go to the right, in the sun, along the rows of corn”

One of the most memorable events of the summer of 2019 was the emergency landing of the Airbus A321 Moscow-Simferopol aircraft with 226 passengers and seven crew members on board on a corn field in the suburbs.

Pilots of Ural Airlines Damir Yusupov and Georgy Murzin were able to land the airliner, which both engines failed after birds hit them. The crew drowned out the engines and cut off the fuel supply to prevent fire in the sky. The liner was put "on the belly" without the release of the chassis. The phrase of the senior flight attendant Dmitry Ivlitsky, "We go to the right, in the sun, along a row of corn" became winged.

Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin handed the stars of the Heroes of Russia to the pilots. Flight attendants were awarded the Order of Courage. As Yusupov RT admitted, he does not consider himself a hero and subsequently ceased to introduce himself to the passengers by his name, so as not to once again excite them before the flight. Foreign media compared what happened to The Miracle on the Hudson and called it The Miracle on the Corn Field.

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Fatherly violence

On November 29, 2019, the Federation Council published the text of the bill on the prevention of domestic violence. One of the authors of the bill is State Duma deputy Oksana Pushkina, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova spoke positively about it.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky opposed the adoption of the law. Opponents of the bill held a rally in Moscow. Among the claims to the bill, it was pointed out that the bill only concerns married people, the goal is not to protect the victim, but to preserve the family, only the victim of violence can declare the danger, and not neighbors and other third parties, a weak punishment for violation prescriptions and other nuances. Moreover, the editorial board in which the bill was presented was criticized even by its authors.

It is worth noting that the bill also did not spell out how the interests of children would be protected if parents used violence against them. Meanwhile, for more than a year now, the story of the Khachaturian sisters, who are accused of killing their father, has been discussed. On July 27, 2018, at the entrance to one of the houses in Moscow, they found the killed 57-year-old father of three daughters Mikhail Khachaturian. The next day, his daughters: 17-year-old Maria, 18-year-old Angelina and 19-year-old Krestina were detained on suspicion of murder.

As the investigation established, on the day of the murder, Khachaturian returned from the Z.P. Scientific-Practical Psychoneurological Center Solovyov, where he was being treated, and decided to punish his daughters for “dirt in the apartment” and spending money from a bank card. He called Mary, Angelina and Christening to the room and sprayed gas from a pepper spray in their face. Due to an asthma attack, the older sister lost consciousness. In the evening, when the man was sleeping in a chair, his daughters attacked him: they struck with a hunting knife, a hammer and sprayed pepper spray on his face. Christening ran out onto the landing, and Mikhail left behind her. It was there that Angelina inflicted a fatal blow to her father with a knife in the heart. After that, the girls tried to stage a man’s attack on them, cut their hands with a knife and called the police and an ambulance.

The girls said that their father mocked them, threatened with weapons, used violence, harassed, forced oral sex and treated them like slaves.

According to the results of medical examinations, Mary was recognized insane at the time the crime was committed. Angelina and Baptism have been diagnosed with abuse syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder. The fact of sexual violence was also confirmed by the examination.

Correspondence of Khachaturian and daughters was repeatedly published in the media, confirming the facts of violence and ill-treatment.

Maria, Krestina and Angelina Khachaturian
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The story of the Khachaturian sisters caused a wide public outcry. A petition was created in defense of the girls. They were also supported by public and cultural figures. On July 6, 2019, a series of pickets in support of the Khachaturian sisters took place on Bolotnaya Square. At the same time, many spoke out that the work of the sisters could become an occasion for expanding the concept of “necessary self-defense”.

Meanwhile, on December 26, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office refused to direct the case of the murder of Khachaturian’s father to the court. In the next two days, as reported by the girls' lawyer, they removed electronic bracelets from them.

“The new leadership interferes with work”

In the fall of this year, the public was shocked by another topic - this is the situation of employees of the Children's Cancer Center. Flea.

As RT previously told, in September 2019, employees of the Moscow Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Blokhin said that the new leadership prevents them from working. In a video message posted by the Alliance of Doctors union, two pediatric oncologists and two deputy directors of the institute complained that the facility did not have ventilation, the walls were moldy, the wards were overcrowded, and the distribution of staff wages became opaque.

Children's Oncology Center. N. Blokhin
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The authors of the appeal delivered an ultimatum: if the management of the center is not replaced, then 26 doctors will leave the hospital right away.

In June 2019, the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology N.N. Blokhina was headed by Svetlana Varfolomeeva. The deputy head of the research institute, Maxim Rykov, said that Varfolomeeva forces doctors who disagree with her policy to quit. The fact that due to an increase in the number of duties, doctors began to pay less attention to patients, was confirmed by the relatives of the children being treated. At the same time, as told RT working in the center to them. Blokhina children's oncologist Denis Shevtsov, innovations that outraged part of the team are associated with the introduction of such basic things as electronic document management.

In September 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office held in the center of them. Blokhin’s inspection, during which he revealed violations related to the use of the property of the institution and the provision of paid medical care, in which the Russian Doctor LLC acted as an intermediary. The audit materials were sent to the Investigative Committee of Russia for a criminal legal assessment of the actions of the cancer center workers.

A RT source familiar with the situation said that the real cause of the conflict could be corruption in a medical facility that existed before the new head arrived. The Commission of the Ministry of Health conducted an audit at the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Medical Center. Blokhin and revealed "very serious violations."

They are associated, among other things, with ineffective treatment protocols and the lack of an electronic medical history. Meanwhile, the commission did not find confirmation of the statements of the doctors of the research institute, which in September accused the new leadership of the institute of lowering salaries and creating an “atmosphere of fear”. Moreover, the Ministry of Health recommended supporting the activities of the new head of the center, Svetlana Varfolomeeva.

Unique transplantologist

Another situation with layoffs was also associated with doctors. Pediatric transplantologist Mikhail Kaabak and assistant Nadezhda Babenko were dismissed from the Children's Health Center, where they worked at a quarter rate, on November 12th.

Doctors claimed that they were fired due to the fact that during the unique operations they used the drug "Alemtuzumab", the use of which is not regulated during such interventions. At the very center, the personnel decision was explained by the reorganization and the appearance of a new full rate in the institution, in connection with which Babenko and Kaabak considered the incomplete rates unnecessary.

Mikhail Kaabak before the operation
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After that, the public came out in defense of the doctor, who was one of the few who had surgery for children weighing less than 10 kg.

According to RT, after the doctor’s dismissal, Kaabak’s patients urgently needed surgery, including ten-month-old twins from Sakhalin Roma and Vitalik Kuznetsov. As a result, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova met with the father of the children and Kaabak.

According to the results of the meeting, the doctor was reinstated with an increase and allowed to carry out operations for children in January 2020 after preliminary therapy. However, some children from the Kaabak list could not wait for the operation. One-year-old Nastya Orlova died, according to preliminary data, from pneumonia, as well as Roma Kuznetsov due to complications not associated with the disease.

Missing girl

A few other significant and tragic social events of 2019 are associated with educational institutions. On October 9, nine-year-old Lisa Kiseleva from Saratov went to school. But in the lessons the girl never showed up. Police and volunteers of the Lisa Alert detachment immediately began looking for her.

The child’s body was found at night from October 10 to October 11 in one of the garages located on the way of Lisa to school. On the same day, 35-year-old Mikhail Tuvatin was detained, who had previously been repeatedly convicted. From 2008 to 2010, he was serving a sentence in a colony for theft, and in 2011 he went back to jail again - received 6.5 years for robbery and rape. Outraged residents wanted to lynch the killer on the spot. The operatives had to hide Tuvatin from the angry crowd.

After the arrest, Mikhail Tuvatin confessed. According to him, the garage was abandoned and he captured it, changing the castle. Lisa Kiseleva on the way to school saw a man in this garage and asked if it was his garage. According to Tuvatin, fearing that the building belonged to the girl’s family, he dragged her inside and killed her.

According to RT, after the death of her daughter, Lisa's mother, Elena Kiseleva, turned to the city authorities with a request to organize an illuminated road to the school, equipped with surveillance cameras and fenced off with high fences from garages.

The murder of a nine-year-old girl caused a wide public outcry. In social networks, people began to demand the return of the death penalty. A corresponding poll was published on the State Duma’s page in Vkontakte, in which more than 150 thousand people took part. Of these, almost 79% of those polled called for the return of capital punishment.

In this case, Kiseleva herself in an interview with reporters said that she supported the abolition of the moratorium, but did not want her daughter's name to be associated with the return of the death penalty.

“I / WE Ivan Golunov”

On June 7, it became known that journalist Ivan Golunov was detained with a narcotic substance. Later, allegedly, a search was carried out in his apartment, where they found a whole drug laboratory. The relevant photos were published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. However, police later admitted that the photographs were not taken in Golunov’s apartment.

The journalist wrote a lot about corruption, and his detention caused a great public outcry. On Academician Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, an agreed rally was held in support of journalist Ivan Golunov, "Law and Justice for All." The case was taken under control by the Moscow Ombudsman Tatyana Potyaeva, the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General. The Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights, Tatyana Moskalkova, informed the head of state about this case.

Journalist Ivan Golunov
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Journalists of Russian publications sent inquiries to the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow with a request to conduct official inspections due to the detention of Golunov.

On June 11, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev announced that the criminal case of the Medusa special correspondent, Ivan Golunov, was terminated “due to unproven guilt,” and Ivan Golunov himself would be released from house arrest.

On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing the head of the drug trafficking control department of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Devyatkin, and the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Moscow CJSC Andrei Puchkov. A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the journalist’s detention against former police officers.