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Rainbow News
Russia: Police Forces Crack Down on Gay Club
29 Jul. 1997

29 July 1997. Heavily-armed OMON riot police from the Interior Ministry's Southeastern Anti-Drug Division, stormed the popular Moscow nightclub Chance the early Saturday morning, beating patrons and saying they had received a tip that someone in the club was selling drugs, club owners said. Coincidentally, the predominantly gay club, located on Ploshchad Ilycha in eastern Moscow, was at the time hosting an anti-drug fashion show. At first, the crowd, which contained a number of foreigners, thought the OMON's arrival was part of the show.

Some 450 patrons were in the club at the time. "Every third or fourth person was searched for drugs," said Sasha Novikov, whose nose was broken when police slammed his face into the wall. Riot police armed with automatic weapons ordered patrons onto the floor. The club's disc jockey was hit in the face with the butt of a gun, Novikov said. Despite repeated requests by the club's management, police showed no identification. No drugs were found, club owners said.

Some 40 people were taken away. One group of 27 club-goers were taken to a sobering-up facility, where a doctor produced documents for them to sign, in which they effectively confessed to having taken drugs. Beaten and intimated, they all signed the documents and were released, said Sukhrab Avliyekulov, one of those detained. A second group of 11 spent six hours behind bars before being taken to the Narcological Hospital No. 17. Blood and urine samples were taken, which confirmed the absence of narcotics and the group was released after some 12 hours in custody, Avliyekulov said.

The club's director said he believes the raid was connected to a dispute with the Serp i Molot factory, which wants to turn the state-owned Palace of Culture in which the nightclub is housed into a business center, restaurant and casino complex.

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