Following the reinstatement of our Lev Ponomarev video posted on YouTube after certain members of the community conspired to have it removed, the Russian press has reacted. The following exclusive translation come from News.ru: Video confirms human rights advocate’s words about beatings in colony IK-2. They open case against Ponomarev, but fail to remove video from YouTube. Yet another scandal is blazing in the domestic prison system: video evidence of the barbarities of the OMON in one of the Sverdlovsk colonies have been obtained, and namely “prophylactic beatings” of inmates, supposedly in colony IK-2. Abroad, the video clip, removed from the site YouTube due to “doubts about the context of what is taking place”, has been put back, because there are no longer doubts about its authenticity. But in Russia, a case has been opened against human rights advocate Lev Ponomarev, who has written about torture and into whose hands this video first found its way, while the chief of the Sverdlovsk UFSIN has been fired – although they do insist that it is for something else.