True and false

The letter that came to the "Pskov province" from the city of Pechora contained information that corresponded to reality, except for one thing: the names of the inhabitants who signed it

In the issue of the "Pskov province" dated October 21, 2009, under the heading "Laws do not work for those in power!" [ 1 ] a letter was published that came to the editorial office, devoted to the problems of housing and communal services and the improvement of the city of Pechora. The authors of the letter were very critical of the work of local authorities and enterprises operating in the housing and communal services sector. The Pechora address was indicated on the envelope and there was a stamp of the Pechora post office. Under the text were the names of eleven people.

After the publication of the newspaper, the newspaper was contacted by residents of Pechory, whose names, among others, were listed among the signatories, including a woman whose name and address were also indicated on the envelope as a sender. They assured the editors that this letter was not written, signed or sent.

After conducting a survey among other residents of Pechora, whose names were indicated under the published letter, they found out that these citizens also had nothing to do with the letter. Without disputing the information contained in the publication, they claimed that all the signatures under the text were falsified.

In their opinion, the real author of the letter was trying in this way to cause damage to citizens in relations with local governments of the Pechora region, as well as housing and communal services, including due to the fact that some of the signatories are employees of these enterprises.

In this regard, the editorial office of the Pskovskaya Guberniya newspaper appealed to the Prosecutor of the Pechora District, Artyom Mayorov, with a request to make a decision to conduct a pre-investigation check of the fact of falsification of a letter to the editorial office on behalf of citizens, to identify the person (or persons) who committed it, and decide on the measure of its (their) responsibility. A copy of the letter and envelope were attached to the application to the prosecutor's office.

A little more than a month later, the editors received a letter from the Pechora District Prosecutor's Office dated December 2, 2009. In it, Olga Milovidova, deputy district prosecutor, informed the editors that “during the inspection, the applicants’ arguments were confirmed.”

In particular, during the audit, it was “found that the administration of the Pechora urban settlement does not comply with the requirements of Part 2 of Art. 1 of the Federal Law of December 10, 1995 No. 196-FZ "On Road Safety, according to which it is entrusted with the obligation to ensure that the condition of roads when they are maintained complies with established rules, standards, technical norms and other regulatory documents."

“Inspection of the streets of the city of Pechora, carried out by the traffic police of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Pechora district, showed that the asphalt concrete pavement of the roadways of the streets: Pskovskaya, Gagarina, Rizhskaya, Lenina, Yuryevskaya, Novaya, Zvezdnaya, School, Mira, Kuznechnaya, Border, Protsenko, Gvardeyskaya, Sovetskaya , in violation of the requirements of clause 3.1.1. GOST R50597-93, has potholes and other damages that impede the movement of vehicles, in addition, on some streets of the city, the markings and road signs do not comply with GOST R50597-93DOST R52289-2004 and GOST R52290-2004.

According to Ms. Milovidova, “in connection with the revealed violations of the law, a proposal was submitted to the head of the administration of the urban settlement “Pechora” to eliminate the identified violations, and the issue of bringing the guilty official to disciplinary responsibility was raised.”

Conducted by the prosecutor's office together with Rospotrebnadzor, an audit of the implementation of legislation on environmental protection during the operation of treatment facilities established that “in violation of sanitary rules and regulations, 10 meters from the intersection of the Pribaltiyskoye highway and st. Motorists, there is a sewer well in the ravine, from the well sewage flows from residential buildings are discharged. Ameliorators of the city of Pechora, which spread over the surface of the earth and after 50 meters flow into the river. Pachkovka in the city of Pechory. The audit showed that the sewage is not being treated.”

As a result, “an administrative offense case under Art. 6.3 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation”, and “a submission was made to the Head of the District, which raised the issue of eliminating the identified violations of the law.”

The deputy prosecutor of the district also reported that the results of the audit “confirmed the applicants' arguments about the violation of the requirements of the electoral legislation by the chairman of the territorial electoral commission, G. B. Semenovskikh.”

In particular, “the district prosecutor's office established that G. B. Semenovskikh was appointed to the position of chairman of the election commission on July 25, 2007. Until July 31, 2009, she was in an employment relationship with Euro-Keramika LLC, which does not meet the requirements of Part 3 and part 5 of Art. 4 of the Law of the Pskov region dated 26.07.2007 No. 697-03, “On territorial election commissions in the Pskov region”, according to which the chairmen of the territorial commissions work in the territorial commissions on a permanent (full-time) basis and cannot engage in other paid activities, except for teaching, scientific and other creative activities.

“On this fact, the prosecutor's office of the district sent information to the Electoral Commission of the Pskov region,” Ms. Milovidova informed the editorial office of the Pskov province.

In addition, a letter from the prosecutor's office reported that “during an inspection of the business activities of Blagostroystvo Plus LLC, it was established that in April 2009 the district prosecutor's office conducted a similar inspection, during which violations of the requirements of Part 2 of Art. 21 of the Federal Law of November 14, 2002, No. 161-FZ “On State and Municipal Unitary Enterprises”, expressed in the participation of the director of the municipal enterprise “Blagoustroystvo” - Galagan V.I. with the identified violations of the law, the Prosecutor's Office made a submission to the Head of the Pechora District, which was considered, the identified violations were eliminated, the guilty official was brought to disciplinary responsibility.

Soon the "Pskov province" received another letter from the prosecutor's office of the Pechora region. This time - with the results of a check on the fact of falsification of signatures in a letter from citizens, in response to the autumn appeal of the editors. In a response dated December 15, 2009, the same Olga Milovidova reported that the editorial's conclusions set out in the statement sent to the prosecutor's office were confirmed, and “the names of citizens who are indicated in the article “Laws do not work for those in power!”, Published in the newspaper Pskovskaya province” No. 40 (461) dated October 21-27, 2009 are indicated without reason, since they did not send this article for publication.

Based on this, Ms. Milovidova recommended that the newspaper publish a refutation of the previously posted information "regarding the indication of the names of citizens."

The editorial staff fulfills this recommendation, expresses regret over what happened, apologizes to the residents of the city of Pechora, whose names were indicated in the signature to the letter, and expresses the hope that the name (or names) of the persons who prepared the fake letter and signed it with other people's surnames, will be installed sooner or later. Moreover, the prosecutor's office of the Pechora district has a copy of this "document" at its disposal, its original is carefully kept in the editorial office of the "Pskov province", and the injured citizens have assumptions about the real authorship.

We hope that these questions will be of interest to the prosecutor's office of the Pskov region and that they will be able to provide a legal answer to them.

Editorial

1 See: “Laws do not work for those in power!” // "PG", No. 40 (461) of October 21-27, 2009