There is always a lot of traffic on the road connecting Simferopol, Crimea’s administrative capital, with the peninsula’s southern coast. And on 10 March this year, it was no different. As a silver Skoda Fabia approached a lay-by on the Angarsky Pass road, a policeman waved his baton, and the car stopped.
What happened next can be seen in footage published by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) six days after the events. Two men wearing balaclavas take the driver out of the car and put him on the asphalt.
“Full name?” they ask.
