Translated material
Flashing beacon
The story told by the New Gazeta about the rebellious officers of the FSB is doubly good. Firstly, it once again gives a visual idea of the degree of corruption of law enforcement agencies. Secondly, it inspires optimism in those who could be distinguished by a visual idea of the degree of corruption of law enforcement agencies into despair.
There is nothing special in the facts of corruption themselves. Did we not know that the security forces were roofing hijackers of expensive cars? But in a tone this is said - ordinary, as a granted. Just like the proposed bribe of three and a half million euros. A petty episode worthy of attention only because they refused a bribe. (Why, by the way, the bribe takers released?)
Crime in the structures of power has become ordinary. So commonplace that they even chuckle as Dmitry Medvedev, who declared at a meeting with deputy prime ministers, which, in Cyprus, seems to be robbed by the loot. Very funny.
The FSB officers who came to the "new" reported that, according to the existing operational data, in the house of businessman M. on the Moscow Ring Road, where the Kadyrovites kept their abducted man, periodically hold hostages. The house is known, the owner is known, every case of kidnapping is a serious crime, but the criminal is not planted. Why? And how to put him if he has all Russian justice behind him? Who will plant? Useless business! FSB operatives talk about this quite everyday. Perhaps this is professional. They are used to it.
The super -task of the authorities - to make sure that the whole country is used to it. Everyone should understand that there are people who are allowed to commit crimes. They can throw packs of false ballots in the elections with impunity if they act in the interests of United Russia. They can hide their foreign real estate from taxes if they are deputies of the Federal Assembly or high -ranking public servants. They can bring down pedestrians on the "zebra" on their cars if they serve in the police or the Orthodox church. They can engage in banditry on Moscow streets if they are guards Ramzan Kadyrov. Putin’s power, calculating and self -serving, leads the country during the time of feudal relations, when the master and its servants stood above the law.
It would seem, where is the reason for optimism? Not that the protest part of society will resist this return in the Middle Ages in every possible way - this is normal. It is that the employees of the FSB - the personnel reserve of the authorities, its hopes and the main support unexpectedly did not agree with this situation. This little riot with unknown consequences is almost certainly not caused by a political protest. It is based on it most likely the professional dignity of people who do not want to do risky work. Here the matter is clearly not in money or career. Meaningless work is the humiliation of the employee. Not everyone can come to terms with such humiliation - even for the sake of a good salary and numerous benefits. And, as it turned out, even in the FSB!
We are used to believing that the FSB is the support of the regime. In general, it is so. But in particular cases, this may not be so. It may happen that even faithful guardsmen will reach some line, where their loyalty ends. The described case is an example. It also happened recently with some members of the government, who had burst out about the "law of Dima Yakovlev." After all, it is one thing to steal and fake, and it is completely different - clearly dooming the children into misfortune. Not everyone is ready for this. Just as not all judges were able to mock the law forever and therefore resigned or were expelled from the judicial community. And what forced the press secretary of the Khamovnik court, Natalia Vasiliev, to characterize the Yukos case as ordered and political and present evidence of it? And even earlier-Alexander Litvinenko and his colleagues to abandon the attempt on Boris Berezovsky and declare this publicly at a press conference? And there are many other examples.
Of course, there are a tiny minority in the grip of such people. But they are. Moreover, they were before. In the 70s, the senior KGB officer, Captain Viktor Orekhov, collaborated with the dissidents, and some of his colleagues silently sympathized with those who were required to spread to the duty of the service. Among the psychiatrists who carried out a forced psychiatric “treatment” of dissenters were those who helped the victims of punitive psychiatry. Even among the warders in the camps there were ensign and officers who sympathized with the innocently convicted.
These people were always microscopically few, and on a country's scale they "did not make the weather." But their very existence testified to the fact that even among the best and most corrupt and unprincipled ministers of the repressive regime of power, it was not possible to etch everything human from each. It did not succeed then, it fails now. This is a slightly strange reason for cautious optimism for today.