Yuri Kostanov, lawyer, former employee of the USSR Prosecutor General’s Office , on the proposal of the Prosecutor General’s Office to transfer two-thirds of criminal cases from the Investigative Committee to the bodies of inquiry (police, customs, drug control ) . It was impossible to allow what was done in the summer, when all rights were transferred to the Investigative Committee. What legislator came up with such a “sensible” idea that the investigation without prosecutorial supervision would be more efficient and better, I don’t know. Maybe they believe that if the prosecutor prevented the violation of laws, this hindered the progress of the investigation. But this also hindered the possibility of bringing the innocent to justice. Let them remember that in every serial murder case, the first episodes were attributed to completely innocent people. The famous Chikatilo case began with the fact that a girl was killed near the city of Shakhty, a certain Kravchenko was sentenced to death, and then it turned out that he was not to blame. The point is not only that the innocent Kravchenko was convicted, but also that Chikatilo, whom no one caught, got the opportunity to commit new murders.
Galina Kozhevnikova, Deputy Director of the information and analytical center "Sova" - about groups of fascist teenagers who committed more than 50 murders Domestic xenophobia is now very high in Russia, over 50%, according to opinion polls. These 50% are the silent majority that support a really insignificant group of people who commit crimes. So, in order to remove this xenophobic pillow, in order to destroy it, it is necessary to change all educational programs, especially humanitarian ones, which are terribly ethnocentric. And not only Russian-centric (this is at the federal level); there are studies that analyze textbooks in the national republics, they have their own, as they say, "minority nationalism". This is tearing the country apart, laying the foundations for huge, serious conflicts, which, in conditions of social instability, will definitely explode.
Sergei Mitrofanov, special correspondent for REN-TV, on work in Tbilisi under the state of emergency It was impossible to collect information. Nobody forbade us to do anything. It's just that people were afraid to meet, especially with Russian journalists. At first, when you call, the person is very happy with you, and it seems that you are just your best friend and now we will meet, there will be an interview, everything will be fine, call in half an hour. Half an hour later, they hang up, then turn off the phone altogether and you can’t get through to this person - that was the standard behavior that day. Especially for a long time we were looking for people who at that moment could say something for Saakashvili, who would say that he did the right thing. And those people who had openly supported him before were afraid to say something at that moment. They tried, for example, to interview Nino Burjanadze. How she communicated with the press - she simply went live on public television and commented on something there after the next meeting. Everything, there was no other communication with journalists.
Sergey Golubchikov, Ph.D. in Geography, about the “day of shipwrecks” in the Kerch Strait This is a long-awaited catastrophe. Of every ten tons of oil, seven tons are transported by tankers, which is one of the causes of oil spills. Every year, 40-50 million tons of oil is poured into the oceans. About 100 million tons of our export oil passes through the Black Sea. The figures are as follows: Novorossiysk exports about 60 million, Tuapse - 28 million tons, and the Black Sea is turning more and more into an oil export zone. The second reason is that the tanker fleet is outdated both morally and physically. After the catastrophes that happened to tankers in Europe (you probably know from the media about the collapse of the Prestige tanker and others), the European Commission banned the use of single-hull ships for transporting oil. These ships were built before 1980 in Japan, there are about 300 of them in the world, they are mainly used for Europe and America. After the ban on the use of these ships in Europe, where do you think they went? They are chartered by Russian shipowners. That's the reason - we use these tankers now. Here are the consequences. So we will still have environmental disasters, this one will not be the last.
Sergey Stepnov, regional manager of the World Detective Network in Russia, on tightening state control over the activities of private detective agencies If earlier the gaps in the registration of private detectives in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were overlooked, now confusion creeps out at almost every step. The point is that in order to obtain a license as a private detective, it is required that he first become a private entrepreneur, that is, an entrepreneur without forming a legal entity. But as a result, it turns out that private detectives working in firms and having individual licenses, when they are renewed, are additionally forced to register as private entrepreneurs. Naturally, empty reporting is submitted, since they receive the main income in this organization. That is, this is an absolutely superfluous link that simply confuses the registration process. PSCs are easier to register, the form can be any, starting with LLC and ending with OJSC, there are no restrictions in the law on this matter.
Yakov Krotov, priest, historian - about “popular love” for Vladimir Putin Any word in the Russian language has a certain resource, but “love”, according to my observations, is one of the words with some colossal foolproofness. That is, despite the fact that this word is in great demand in politics, and in yellow newspapers, and tabloid novels, they still write under the window: “I love you.” Well, thank God it's good. Love in a person, so to speak, is moored to our "I" simultaneously through the spiritual, through emotionality and through the physiological, and therefore, in order to make the word "love" hollow, it is necessary to unfasten it from all three points. Mikhalkov unfastened from one - from the spiritual. After all, it is clear that love for politics, love for Russia, for any country, for any abstraction is something that claims to be a purely spiritual phenomenon. He is not going to indulge in some kind of carnal love relationship with his beloved leader. But if it is love that is devoid of a carnal basis, then it is no longer love. You can love God with your heart, liver, muscles...
