“Mopping up” the country before Medvedev’s inauguration? By Grigory Pasko, journalist Forcible eviction We have recently reported here on the blog about the search conducted by the local police of a human rights center in Chita. In that same article, we reported on the police threats to evict coordinator of the youth movement «Oborona» Oleg Kozlovsky from an apartment. Just a few days later, this threat was realized by the Moscow police. On Saturday, 22 March, Oleg Kozlovsky and several of his close associates were detained by employees of the Moscow police and sent off to the Division of Internal Affairs (OVD). Eyewitnesses reported that the activists of the movement «Oborona» were treated very roughly; they were pulled and dragged along the ground and the asphalt, and then seated in a police car. A phalanx of OMONovites arresting Oleg Kozlovsky during the time of one of the «dissenters’ marches» (photo from the site www.gulyaev.ru)