Youth union chairman resigns after reports of plane brawl

Chairman of the Russian Youth Union (RSM) Pavel Krasnorutsky resigns. He announced this on his page on VKontakte. According to Krasnorutsky, he made such a decision “at an extraordinary congress of the RSM.” “This is my personal position and initiative,” the official said, adding that he had headed the union since 2012.

As RBC reports with reference to the Baza Telegram channel, on June 17, Krasnorutsky “made a brawl on the plane and almost got into a fight with another passenger” on an Aeroflot flight from Khanty-Mansiysk to Moscow. According to the channel, he flew in business class, drank whiskey and decided to take alcohol to economy class, but airline employees warned him that after that he might no longer be given alcohol.

Because of this, a conflict arose between Krasnorutsky and the flight attendant, whom the head of the RSM threatened to “send to war.” In the end, Aeroflot employees began to ignore him, and at the end of the flight, Krasnorutsky began to swear with another passenger. As a result, at Sheremetyevo, after landing, the police filed two protocols against him “on petty hooliganism and appearing in a public place in a state of intoxication.” He “cursed obscenities at law enforcement officers and tried to grab them by their uniforms,” the channel claims.

Krasnorutsky himself, according to Baza, said that he drank, but not much, and simply “talked loudly” with a neighbor. “There was no conflict, I don’t understand where it came from. It was as if no one demanded whiskey from anyone, fought with anyone, and no one sent anyone to any wars. It was probably wrong – we were talking loudly and probably interfered, ”said the head of the RSM. He also confirmed that the police had drawn up a protocol against him “for an unlawful violation.”