There's a fight for gasoline at Russian gas stations, and queues are visible from space
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İn Novosibirsk, police took at least eight people to the station after they were outraged by the fact that a car, which eyewitnesses associate with the city administration, was being filled with gas ahead of the line. According to those detained, they had been waiting for gas for several hours when a car with tinted windows drove around the line and stopped at the pump. Gas station employees called the police, but instead of detaining the driver, they detained the most vocal protesters, reports Sibir.Realii. Residents of Siberia, the Volga region, and the Moscow region report hours-long queues and empty gas stations. Fuel shortages are accompanied by increasingly heated conflicts: drivers try to skip the queue, use other people's documents entitling them to discounted service, and steal gasoline from cars in parking lots, sometimes damaging fuel tanks and other vehicle components.
"It's like the apocalypse. Everyone's fighting for survival; soon they'll start killing people for a liter of gasoline," is how one of our interviewees, a resident of the Irkutsk region, describes the situation. "People stood in line for several hours to get gas at the gas station on Petrov Street. Then a car with tinted windows and license plates that witnesses mistook for an administrative one, with the letters OOO, pulled up. It backed up and stopped at the pump in front of the entire line. The driver got out and started filling up, ignoring the shouts," says lawyer Sergei (names have been changed for security reasons). "No one hit him. People surrounded the car and demanded that the driver go to the end of the line. They asked him to dump the gas he'd poured in without waiting in line."
According to Sergei, the gas station employees called the police. When officers arrived, they detained about ten people in line.
"I know the names of eight people, but I don't rule out the possibility that there were more," the lawyer says. "All were later released without charges. Those arrested were under the impression that the officers wanted to intimidate them and take them away from the car so they couldn't photograph it and identify the driver. They also claim that the police demanded they delete their cellphone recordings, threatening to prosecute them."
Sergei believes that the participants in the conflict did not commit any actions for which they should have been taken to the police station:
"People are certainly on edge right now, but they didn't beat anyone or break anything. Meanwhile, the driver pointedly ignored the line. We've always had no doubt that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is on anyone's side except ordinary citizens, but this time it was especially clear."
When the detainees returned to the gas station, there was no gasoline there.
In other regions, police also respond to calls from gas station employees, but in those cases, the officers' complaints were directed at those trying to cut in line or causing conflict. One such incident occurred on July 5 in the village of Ust-Ordynsky in the Irkutsk region.
"We'd been standing in line for five hours when some drunk asshole pulled up behind the wheel of an Audi Q7 and tried to cut in front of everyone else. They blocked his way. People were absolutely stunned by his audacity. My neighbor in line started filming him on her phone, and he—wearing the Russian coat of arms and the tricolor—started threatening her: 'I'll break your phone!' Then he moved in on her. We fought her off," says Bair, a resident of the neighboring village of Bayandai. According to Bair, the gas station employees called the police. The driver initially left, but soon returned with a friend.
"The policeman was already threatening him with a gun in his face to get him to leave. But he came back. He only left the crowd behind because the gas station was empty by then. Many were traveling to Lake Baikal with children and spent over 12 hours in line because the gas stations on the highway from Irkutsk were empty. And then we ended up at a show with a fight and guns. We were lucky: we managed to get 15 liters of gas. We gave the car with the small children a little extra gas so they could at least get to the nearest hotel. Three cars behind us, the gas ran out. Everyone else was left waiting for the tanker."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs press service reported that 36-year-old Vladimir Botoyev, who had a previous conviction, was detained the following morning. Police posted a video of him apologizing to officers and village residents for his behavior. Criminal cases have been opened against him for "threat of violence against a government official" and "public insult to a government official." The court remanded him in custody until September 5.
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