Nadezhda Tylik
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Nadezhda Tylik is a Russia
n citizen and mother of the submariner Lt. Sergei Tylik, who lost his life in the Kursk disaster
- a Russian submarine that sank after an onboard explosion on August 12, 2000.
Tylik is best known for an internationally distributed news clip featuring her, filmed on August 18, 2000. In the clip, Tylik, who was very upset, accused the Russian president Vladimir Putin
of lying to her and other family members regarding the Kursk disaster. During her outburst, the video shows another female producing a hypodermic syringe and injecting her with it through her clothes. Though the injection itself was not visible from the angle of the camera, shortly thereafter she lost the ability to stand and was helped back into her chair by those near her.
Navy officials in Vidyayevo
confirmed she was given a sedative both to The Times
and to The St. Petersburg Times. "We've been giving sedatives to relatives since this began, and it is not such a big deal as you make it out to be in the West," said an officer who would not identify himself. "We are simply protecting the relatives from undue pain - it was for her own protection."
Although at first denying she was drugged and later on saying the injection was requested by her husband because of a heart condition , Ms. Tylik, 4 months later, confessed her husband had lied to her to "save her nerves" and that he, in fact, "did not ask for help", completing that "the injection was done to shut her mouth" and that "immediately after it she just lost the ability to speak and was carried out."
The sedation concerned people in Russia as well as the West
that the former Soviet Union
may be falling back into Cold War
era methods of silencing dissent.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n citizen and mother of the submariner Lt. Sergei Tylik, who lost his life in the Kursk disaster
Russian submarine Kursk explosion
On 12 August 2000, the Russian Oscar II class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion. The investigation showed that a leak of hydrogen peroxide in a torpedo led to explosion of its fuel, causing the submarine to hit the bottom which in turn triggered the detonation of further...
- a Russian submarine that sank after an onboard explosion on August 12, 2000.
Tylik is best known for an internationally distributed news clip featuring her, filmed on August 18, 2000. In the clip, Tylik, who was very upset, accused the Russian president Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...
of lying to her and other family members regarding the Kursk disaster. During her outburst, the video shows another female producing a hypodermic syringe and injecting her with it through her clothes. Though the injection itself was not visible from the angle of the camera, shortly thereafter she lost the ability to stand and was helped back into her chair by those near her.
Navy officials in Vidyayevo
Vidyayevo
Vidyaevo is a closed rural inhabited locality in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Despite having a rural status, it is municipally incorporated as Vidyayevo Urban Okrug, as such status is the only one allowed by the federal law for the closed inhabited localities. Population: 6,307 .It...
confirmed she was given a sedative both to The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
and to The St. Petersburg Times. "We've been giving sedatives to relatives since this began, and it is not such a big deal as you make it out to be in the West," said an officer who would not identify himself. "We are simply protecting the relatives from undue pain - it was for her own protection."
Although at first denying she was drugged and later on saying the injection was requested by her husband because of a heart condition , Ms. Tylik, 4 months later, confessed her husband had lied to her to "save her nerves" and that he, in fact, "did not ask for help", completing that "the injection was done to shut her mouth" and that "immediately after it she just lost the ability to speak and was carried out."
The sedation concerned people in Russia as well as the West
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...
that the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
may be falling back into Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
era methods of silencing dissent.