With unsolved eyes

Twenty years instead of life -lifelong to those who shot Boris Nemtsov. Approximately in the same proportion, compared with the requests of the prosecutor's office, sentences and other convicts are softened. Dadaev, the Gubashev brothers, Eskerkhanov and Bakhaev - they are allfound guilty according to the verdict of the jury, and that the deadlines were not given the longest, you reflect with some sluggish sympathy for the sentenced and their relatives. Better so, yes.

Of course, kindness or forgiveness here is not a penny. Rather, we can talk about the total distrust of the law enforcement system of the Russian Federation and that Zarathustra does not allow us to enjoy other people's suffering and sad, if the killer was not closed for the rest of his life. Because you won’t resurrect the murdered, as for the process that ended yesterday in the Moscow District Military Court, there are more questions to the investigation and prosecutors than answers, and it is completely impossible to talk about the triumph of justice. For example, that Khamzat Bakhaev, who was sentenced to 11 years, had at least some attitude to the crime, even the lawyers of the family of Boris Efimovich doubts. And if he is innocent, it is generally difficult to think that the death of a politician entailed another lawlessness.

And there’s almost nothing more, except for banalities, a thousand times spoke, which nevertheless want to repeat and repeat. The customer of the murder was not found, although it is possible that it is already named repeatedly. The driver in the role of the organizer is laughs, this is a clear evidence of what stage of inquiry to the investigators was ordered to stop the search and to what level they were allowed to dig. And could it be otherwise?

Just imagine: the case is opened - and an independent investigation freely pulls on interrogations of everyone who suspects of involvement in the crime, despite the faces. Any Geremeyev, any Delimkhanov, any Zolotov, any Kadyrov, is scary to say to anyone. They write, this is scary to say who was beside himself when he found out about the murder, and for a long time did not want, by rumors, to accept the head of the Chechen administration - so to interview both, to arrange a confrontation and lay out detailed protocols on the network. FSO refuses to submit records from video surveillance cameras? So this is serious evidence against the FSO, is it not, and it is necessary to check why it refuses, who specifically sits in refusal, from whom the order was received to refuse? The cameras did not work - it was on the day of the murder? Even more interesting: who ordered to turn off?

It is clear that the questions asked are incorrect by definition, and from them they protected the jury, as well as from those that were at least somehow connected with the political activity of the deceased, his enemies, his careless statements at these enemies. It is also clear that all such ranting are meaningless, since they are talking about the legal system of some other country, alien to us and probably hostile, and not about Putin's Russia. About such a country where a situation that created after the murder of a famous person in the center of the capital would be simply unthinkable. When the textures for holding regional leaders are held accountable and it is scary to say who is plent to, and they are either inviolable, or do not open the door if the visiting security official is trying to go to them, or they rule the investigation. And everything understands everything with us, and the most obvious questions posed above, the first oncoming depressed Kholoi will call us treacherous and provocative, and you can’t argue with it.

And what to argue. In the end, the murder of Boris Nemtsov is just one crime in a series of many who, beyond recognition of Russian society. Among which is the second Chechen massacre, and mass poisoning of hostages on Dubrovka, and Beslan, and Donbass, and Aleppo. It should be surprised, perhaps, that the authorities are still preoccupied with the preservation of external decency, and some people similar to killers are sitting in the Politkovskaya case, and someone was caught and even condemned yesterday due to the death of Nemtsov. It may turn out that both the real killer and those who accompanied him, arranging surveillance of the doomed. Even the idea creeps out that some important political murder some responsible ranks plan in advance and the future process, vigilantly tracking the performers and not stopping them, so that judicial retribution looks believable, but we will not be carried away by conspiracyology. There are enough real facts to go crazy.

However, when interacting with this reality, one can behave and otherwise - much more restrained, but also more reasonable. Not indulging in despair, to record what is happening, like human rights activists of stagnant times in their "chronicle of current events", and as much as possible to withstand terrorist power. Calmly and firmly insist that the crime has not been disclosed, the motive was not found, genuine customers of the murder and its organizers are walking out at large, despite the fact that their names are apparently known to everyone. Carefully maintain for yourself and for the offspring of a memorial on the Nemtsovo bridge as an eternal reminder of the perfect and curse of villains.

This is also a banality, yes, but its strength is that it is hardened and confirmed by the experience of the life of past generations. Especially in Russia, where, as you know, one must live for a long time in order to find out the truth and with our own eyes to see the triumph of justice. The verdict was passed, the time has gone, the court continues.