Tag: 1st Independent Special Purpose Division

Zaslon 2015: Preparing for Russia’s Own Maidan

April 20, 2015

Mass protests, violent attacks against the police, Molotov cocktails, stones, sticks, women and children… The scene could easily be mistaken for the Maidan early last year, but in fact it was a recent training operation by Russia’s Interior Ministry to prepare for just such an eventually on the streets of Moscow—Zaslon 2015. The scene of […]