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How is meanness done?

In the framework of classical logic - on the sly. That's why she is meanness, so as not to shout about herself to the whole wide world. Honest Iago with Desdemona's handkerchief, Gloucester's faithful son Edmond with a forged letter from his brother... The spring of intrigue is hidden from the victim.

Poor, obsolete Shakespeare! His logic is long gone. Instead of outstanding "Machiavellis", dead people from Dostoevsky with the key slogan: Let's get drunk!

Who is really embarrassed?

There were - a scoop, steel - a bean ...

Judge Stashina gave the go-ahead to seize documents in The New Times. The same Stashina who left the seriously ill Magnitsky in the pre-trial detention center a few days before his death. The same Stashina who turned a blind eye to the circumstances of this arrest - circumstances reeking of billions of dollars of corruption in law enforcement agencies. We wrote about all this. Actually, the word "corruption" appeared in magazine texts constantly, like an ink stain through a blotting paper, but the revelations of the elite OMON fighters became the last straw...

That after this article, against the background of a dozen of our other publications, the leadership of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and all the relatives and friends of the Lubyanka rabbit would not burst into tears in belated repentance, but would rush to the new persecution of the magazine in a whole pack - it was clear.

But, according to my outdated Shakespearean ideas about dramaturgy, they should still hide the motive of corporate criminal revenge.

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Judicial Pike is launched into the magazine pond she hates in front of honest people - to restore order

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They could, in the end, take as an analogue the behavior of early Putin in the Khodorkovsky case. Well, it was only a couple of years ago that he got off the screw and began to carry illegal nonsense, but at the beginning - you remember ... The continuous triumph of the law! That is, everyone who has a head on their shoulders, and not a bag of bran, and then they perfectly understood that the Basmanny Court is a derivative of the fear of losing power and a personal inferiority complex, but you can understand as much as you like - go and prove it!

What did it cost for the Chekists, pinched by a series of The New Times investigations, to rent blue eyes from their boss? Well, a recess in the editorial office, but what does the settling of accounts have to do with it? Few, perhaps, judges with psychic abilities to hear voices from the Lubyanka ...

But why these dramatic subtleties? From whom to hide iniquity? From Strasbourg? While the grass grows, the horse will die of hunger, as it is said in Hamlet. In the coffin they saw Strasbourg.

And the judge's Pike, in front of honest people, is launched into a magazine pond - to put things in order! Ms. Stashina at the distribution of the law! Personally!

The one? Yes.

Laughter in the hall.

Laughter, of course, nervous.

The dead have lit up. They don't want to be embarrassed. And then, really, you don’t know what to object to ...

In some countries, an invisible reputational mechanism prevents evil spirits from living in their filthy pleasure. An English judge, caught by the media in a fatal corruption conspiracy, would cease to be a judge before any collegium. His face would have flashed in prime time on all TV channels: he simply could not go out into the street, so as not to be publicly disgraced!

If it suddenly became known that this judge, along with other powerful characters in investigative journalism, is involved in the persecution of the free media, which brought them to clean water, an administration that makes this possible would go out.

But Churov is on the alert, the riot police are on guard, nothing threatens the administration, and there is no need for Judge Stashina and Co. to hide from the Russians and look for a job that is safer for society. They got naked for their own pleasure - and they rule ...