It was amusing to watch how several media outlets and Telegram channels edited out the story of the murder on Vereiskaya Street in Moscow yesterday. The manager of a major developer was transformed into a private designer and artist, and the Muscovite outraged by the noise from the construction of an elite residential complex was transformed into a criminal thug. Of course, no circumstances can justify murder, but still...
In reality, this story took place. 43-year-old Muscovite Mikhail Sbradov worked as a taxi driver (in 2010, he actually had a criminal record, got into a fight with a police officer at the police station, and stole his assault rifle), but for three years he hadn't been able to get a good night's sleep because the premium residential complex "Rodina Park" was being built right under his window. The developer is the Rodina Group, owned by Anton Viner (son of Irina Viner-Usmanova, president of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation) and Vladimir Shchekin. Rodina enjoys a special place in the Moscow authorities' favor, which it readily exploits. Residents of neighboring buildings near the Rodina Park residential complex, which is under construction, constantly complain that work is carried out around the clock, even on weekends, and that the noise is constant and terrible. No amount of complaining helps. Sbradov also complained. And on Saturday, April 25, he went to the Rodina Park office, which was also open on the weekend. Sbradov shouted that the constant noise was "making his life difficult," but they couldn't talk. He then pulled out a knife and attacked Victoria Merkulova, a leading expert in luxury apartment sales. Merkulova died from the stab wounds. The attacker fled into the nearby woods, where he was apprehended.
On April 26, some media outlets reported that the murder had taken place in the office of an unnamed development company. But then the order came… And, judging by the publications that began distorting the story, it came from the Moscow government. Subsequently, a significant number of media outlets and television channels presented the story in a completely different light. Allegedly, a criminal broke into the office (or, for some, the apartment) of a designer and artist because she was making noise and killed her.
