Translated material
Vacations in prison
In the opposition
Vacations in prison
January 8, 2011 Daily Journal
The activist of the Left Front Konstantin Kosyakin , one of the three applicants of the action on December 31 on the Triumphal, which was not awarded the highest permission of the Moscow authorities, received 10 days of arrest. Kosyakin was detained on December 31, and on January 2, the magistrate court found him guilty of resistance to police officers. All this time he had been in custody.
The second co -adviser, the leader of the “other Russia” Eduard Limonov , was also detained on December 31, but not even in the square, but upon leaving his own apartment. On the same day, the justice of the peace found him guilty of petty hooliganism and sentenced him to arrest for 15 days. In the indictment, it was said that he swore obscenely and repelled the policemen from himself. Simultaneously with Limonov, the activist of another Russia Kirill Manulin , who received 8 days of arrest, was detained.
During the action, among other things, representatives of "Solidarity" and members of the Party of Folk Freedom Boris Nemtsov and Ilya Yashin were detained. At the same time, they took part in a rally, which received the highest permission, but were taken from there. At first they were accused, like other detainees, in an attempt to cross the roadway in an unidentified place, but then they re -qualified the charge - it turns out that they also showed disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers. 
01/09/2011
Dmitry Zimin, founder of the Dynasty Foundation :
I am extremely dejected by all the events that take place - the arrest of Nemtsov and all others. I have the feeling that the real grief came to the country through the fault of the authorities. Of course, violence against the opposition is an event of a different plan than the decision of the Khamovniki court in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, but all this is indicators of trouble, degradation. I don’t want to live with this.
Now I am in Europe, and what I see with my eyes is in wild contrast to what I read about what is happening in Russia.
Yuri Ryzhov, academician :
Power extinguishes mass events, which show the condemnation of power and its crimes against the Basic Law. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies take a huge number of measures, the FSB and riot police are involved, an unlimited number of ordinary police officers. In order to show that the power is strong and ready to suppress any disagreement by any means, detention, arrests, landings and everything else begin. All this is a lead on a growing scale, it is an undisguised demonstration with actions and even words of complete neglect and even contempt for the supreme power, and through it vertically to Doniz, to their own people. We all heard what Mr. Putin says, that he says affectionately, and then Mr. Medvedev resumes everything with the next phrase. In this sense, we are faced only with the escalation of rudeness. It is possible, however, that this is not dictated by complete confidence in its own impunity, but, on the contrary, despair, which began with internal hysteria. Perhaps these persons are aware that they have lost control of the country and that the country has degraded to a state that could lead to a quick and unexpected explosion, as always happened in Russia.
01/08/2011
Evgeny Gontmamer, Deputy Director of the Institute of Modern Development :
I believe that everything that happened is beyond the line of not only the law, but also common sense. I do not understand the motives of power. After all, those people who, as a result of the actions of the authorities were now behind bars, would not be intimidated. On the contrary, they, just like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in such conditions become more mature, more convinced of what they do. Thus, what happened to Nemtsov, Yashin, Limonov gives them additional political weight. Despite the holidays, they write about these arrests all the time on the Internet. This will be discussed in the newspapers and after the holidays. These stupid actions of the authorities indicate that those who made decisions simply lost any orientation in time and space. But I agree that if thousands of people will participate in promotions of those held on the 31st, if the discussion of this and the protest become more massive, maybe such nonsense will be avoided. Although the actions of the authorities are so irrational, it is difficult to predict that they can still come up with.
Oleg Moroz, publicist :
I was at a rally on December 31, I was happy to listen to the performances of Nemtsov, Yashin and others, since they reflected the attitude of the progressive part of the people to the situation in Russia, to power. The team of detention came, I think, from the very top, since Nemtsov and Yashin spoke unusually sharply even for the anti -Putin rally. It is in this, in my opinion, that the reason for their detention is, and not that they violated something. By the way, when I went to the rally, I heard the riot police instructed that they should block everything after the rally and how to act - this means that everything was thought out in advance and planned. Like all others, I am outraged. I agree with Boris Akunin, who calls on the Internet as actively reacting, protesting, turning to the international public, and international human rights organizations, in addition to Amnesty International. There is a danger that it will be even worse further. Power came into taste and will continue to tighten the nuts. The arrest of participants in the authorized rally is a pure provocation, pure lawlessness. Clean decisions are also outrageous, outrageously, when frankly, the protocols are brazenly falsified and they are arbitrarily different. The arrest of Limonov, who was taken from the house and for no reason, was soldered for 15 days. It is outrageous and obvious torture handling with Nemtsov, who was placed in a punishment cell, where he was forced to stand for several hours. All this is done clearly at the direction of the top, this is obvious revenge for a sharp performance at the rally.
01/04/2011 23:07
The International Amnesty called the prisoners of the conscience of Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and Konstantin Kosyakin, detained on the triumphal square on December 31.
“The authorities of the Russian Federation once again do not fulfill their obligations to protect the freedom of assembly, the rights that are recorded in the Constitution,” the representative of the human rights organization Sergei Nikitin told Interfax. He also expressed concern that the trial in the case of detained activists did not comply with the world's justice standards
Application of the US administration in connection with the arrest of Boris Nemtsov
and other Russian oppositionists
January 3, 2011
A few months ago, we were delighted that the Moscow authorities changed their former policy and allowed peaceful demonstrations on the 31st. In this regard, we were surprised to learn that some of the demonstrators were arrested on December 31, and, in the case of Boris Nemtsov and some others, we received a long time for the conclusion for what looked like the exercise of constitutional rights.
President Obama met with Boris Nemtsov in Moscow in July 2009 and still admires his work to promote the development of democracy in Russia.
Mike Hammer
press secretary of the US National Security Council
Vladimir Ryzhkov. Triumphal. Judge Borovkova. Arbitrariness
03/03/2011 | 16:47
He was on the triumphal on December 31, and yesterday all day spent the whole day in the Tver World Court of the CAO of Moscow at the trial of Nemtsov and Yashin.
I testify as an eyewitness.
Nemtsov and Yashin were detained, and received arrests (15 and 5 days) according to the fully falsified testimony of two police officers .
Politicians went with a agreed (!) Rally home, to celebrate the New Year, along the sidewalk on the triumphal. Nemtsov walked with his daughter Jeanne and her friend. They did not shout the slogans, did not swear, did not call to go to the Kremlin or march along Tverskaya, did not call for an unauthorized rally, did not resist police officers. They did not violate the requirements of the police, since there were no requirements. Police officers did not introduce themselves during the detention, did not show official certificates. 13 witnesses during a court hearing showed that Nemtsov and Yashin did not do anything that they were incriminated. The evidence of many eyewitnesses of detention, photo and video materials unequivocally prove that the testimony of police officers about the false of all percent.
Magistrate Borovkova Olga Yuryevna
(Address: Moscow, B. Cherkassky per., D.7/8, p. 1-B. The justice of the peace: Borovkova Olga Yuryevna. Phones: 921-24-63, 921-38-65.) Rejected all the petitions of the defense. Including refused to watch video and photography proving the deceit of police reports. She ignored all the testimony of witnesses of protection. And she believed only to two police officers who could not really answer any question. By the way, this is the same Borovkova, who in September last year planted 4 days of human rights activist Leo Ponomarev and punished a number of other civil activists.
After the second sentence, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, the regime began to quickly evolve in the direction of the open dictatorship.
Now the detention of opposition and civil activists began even on shares agreed with the authorities . The fabrication of administrative cases and their stamping in obedient ships according to the permits of the police were put on the conveyor. All passive and indifferent should be realized - in today's Russia, everyone is defenseless in the face of growing arbitrariness and corruption.
Here is our statement about the arrest of Nemtsov and Yashin:
Statement of the co -chairs of the Party of Folk Freedom
(For Russia without arbitrariness and corruption)
The impudent factory by the police and the court of convictions and the imprisonment of the co-chair of the Party of People’s Freedom B.Nnemtsov and other participants in the opposition shares on December 31, 2010 in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, are not “excesses on the ground”, but the convulsions of the highest Russian government, which finally adopted the usual Soviet methods of combating dissent.
We are convinced that any attempts to intimidate the opposition, to strangle Russian citizens with the desire for freedom are obviously doomed.
Despite the strengthening of the repressions, the 2011 occurred will be marked by the loss of control over the events of the illegitimate regime in Russia and its final discrediting.
Mikhail Kasyanov
Vladimir Milov
Vladimir Ryzhkov
January 2, 2011
Criminal power. Harry Kasparov
Nemtsov - 15 days of administrative arrest. Limonov - 15 days. Kosyakin - 10 days. Yashin - 5 days.
On New Year's Eve, these four citizens of Russia, publicly expressing their sharply negative attitude towards the Putin regime, the so -called representatives of the law enforcement agencies, a criminal offense was committed. The illegal detentions on the street, the falsified protocols in the police department, the stamped court decisions - the entire typical set from the arsenal of the cops and judges set by Pakhan and his accomplices was launched to follow the order in the zone. Shpan, who was pushing to the authorities, is most primitively getting scores with his political enemies.A formidable in appearance of the Omon authorities obediently fulfills the role of regimely shakov, ordering his subordinates to first beat defenseless people, and then for a false prose at court hearings. Small hooliganism, obscene expressions, resistance to police officers, violation of public order - without this, of course, no event of opposition that require compliance with the Constitution can do. Police officials know very well that they have nothing to worry about - the collective “judge Danilkin” always guarantees a conviction. For this, any nonsense is accepted from people in the form as evidence and at the same time any evidence from the defense, including photo and video materials, are rejected.
By the way, judging by the reaction of the police, during the unauthorized procession of fans in Leningradka on December 8, everything was more than decent . That is, neither hooligan outputs, nor violations of public order, nor God forbid, swearing expressions were recorded. And the events of December 11 at Manezhnaya, based on the same police logic, did not pose a serious threat to respectable citizens, in contrast to the provocative gatherings of the opposition on the 31st.
The criminalization of the state apparatus has reached the maximum level of concentration, when thieves' power, perverting laws, seeks to maintain control over the common fund at any cost. Only the "common fund" in this case is the Russian budget and the natural wealth of our country.
PS. Ilya Yashin colorfully described in his blog how the district police officer, under the pressure of the authorities, falsified the detention protocol, that is, hesitating nothing, committed a serious official crime. It is interesting, and all these are the district “Dima”, the judges of Danilkin, the prosecutors of the “Lahtins” think that one fine day in Russia will end with the power of lawmakers and will earn normal justice when they all have to be responsible under the law for committed crimes? Or are they sure that even if such a moment comes, no one will remember them anyway? Like in 1991 ...
The arrest of Nemtsov . Anatoly Chubais
03/03/2011 09:43
I just managed to talk with Boris Nemtsov. As you know, he was detained on December 31st, and today he was arrested for resistance to police officers. I will say right away - I believe that the authorities have the right to detain participants in unauthorized rallies. But the rally in which Nemtsov participated was allowed! I do not believe in the foundation of the arrest accepted by the court - resistance to police officers. And because the court refused to introduce the materials that refute this, and because Boris himself categorically denies that there was resistance, and because resistance in such a situation is simply stupidity. I am convinced that the same questions arise not only with me, but also for any normal person. And this means that they must be given an answer - and not the court, the trust in which is undermined, but the authorities themselves. Or in our country today there is no place for a dialogue of power and society?
Artemy Troitsky, art critic, journalist
I think that it would be very good if, on the same New Year's Eve, on the same camera, on the same side, on the one hand, Nemtsov, Yashin and, say, Kasparov, and on the other hand, Medvedev, Putin and, say, Surkov, were put on the same side. So that they spent 15 days together, talked with each other, discussing some problems-maybe something interesting would have turned out from this.
Our absolutely gangster power, power without glimpses of something human sits in its place tightly. Our sluggish opposition is too low and unconvincing to do something, it is not able to pick up this power. It is clear to constrain this power in some civilian democratic elective way, it is impossible simply because Putinshchina does not imply this in principle. It seems to me to believe that the abstract will help us, because we see how the abroad tolerates regimes like the North Korean, and even less important for ourselves than Russians rich in oil and warheads. I cannot call to the people's landing path of individual terror. Therefore, the only way is to involve aliens, as well as great esoterics, witchcraft forces and the like to the struggle on our side. We have no more to rely on.
Heydi Hautala, chairman of the subcommittee of the European Parliament on Human Rights
Hundreds of people were arrested in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities for speeches in defense of their right to freedom of assembly, guaranteed by Art. 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
I just found out that Mr. Nemtsov was sentenced to prison, apparently for the resistance of the police. I have reliable sources claiming that this accusation is routine and, which is very possible, according to far -fetched grounds, applies to peaceful protesters along with accusations of “violation of public order”. I call for the immediate liberation of all peaceful demonstrators in the framework of Strategy-31.
With the advent of the new mayor of Moscow, the authorities seemed finally ready to show respect for the constitutional law of citizens to freely gather and express their views. The arrest of hundreds of citizens on December 31 shows that it was an unfounded hope. It was a real rollback back, and we in the European parliament should continue to put pressure on our strategic partner, as we call Russia, so that he respected international guaranteed rights that each citizen should use, including in Russia.
"I am even more alarmed by the fact that activists and leaders of the democratic opposition in Russia, apparently, will be persecuted on charges of" violation of public order. "I doubt that Boris Nemtsov, for example, the former deputy minister, would behave like this in the public. As long as I write this, Mr. Nemtsov continues to be in the police department for the second day of the contract. It is stated that the demonstrators committed violent actions on December 31.
Европейский союз быстро и жестко отреагировал на полицейское насилие в отношении демонстрантов в Белоруссии, которое выразилось, в том числе в задержании большинства кандидатов в президенты после президентских выборов 19 декабря. Я хочу напомнить представителям Евросоюза и другим коллегам о необходимости избежать двойных стандартов при оценке событий в Беларуси и России. Евросоюз должен продолжить осуждение полицейских практик в России так же жестко, как он делает это в отношении Беларуси. Пришло время, чтобы Евросоюз активизировал контакты и продемонстрировал солидарность с российской демократической оппозицией, поступив так же, как он поступает в отношении оппозиции в Беларуси.
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