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They will sit, but not forever

October 3, 2013 Alexander Golts

None of Putin’s public meetings with foreign representatives are without questions regarding political prisoners and the possibilities of their amnesty. At the Investment Forum "Russia is calling!" They were formulated by the correspondent of Wall-Street Journal. In full accordance with Soviet traditions (in the USSR, as you know, there were no political faces, there were people who violated the Criminal Code under the article “Anti -Soviet propaganda”) The head of the Russian state said that there were no “political” in Russia.

But here, obviously, the Nationalist was earned by the subconscious. And Putin settled in the argument that some of the prisoners who are supposedly in prison in political affairs were never engaged in politics: “If you mean old affairs, then the people who are sitting on these old affairs never engaged in politics and immediately became politicians after they fell into places of imprisonment.” The same subconscious forced to talk about the problem that clearly worries Putin: “I don’t know, I’m not sure that everyone needs to be pursued forever and over any person who made some violations of the law should always hang a sword of some kind of retaliation.”

“If a person received a punishment in accordance with the law, and this once goes away. Stability is important. Power should be strong, consistent and fair. And if all this will be reflected in laws and law enforcement practice, then investors will understand that we have a stable situation, and a lot depends on stability, ”the president said.

It seems that one of the presidential PR managers considered this reasoning too self-consumer. Therefore, on the official website, contrary to ordinary practice, only Putin’s entrance word was published, without answering questions. It is quite obvious that the upcoming in 2014, the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev seriously bothers Putin. And this may mean new nasty things regarding prisoners.

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