Executioners without borders

Honestly, I thought they would let him go. It was sad to confess in their own stupidity, but the recognition of the prosecutor of Khomutovsky a week ago seemed clear to me evidence of the rapid liberation of Vasily Aleksanyan. This is logical: the prosecutor tells the court that the defendant is sick with AIDS, and adds that his department has no objections to the liberation of the tortured convict. Say, under the subscription about the lower room. For the death penalty in Russia has been canceled, torture is not officially used, therefore, what remains? At first it did not even occur to that this Khomutovsky disclosed the diagnosis just like that. For that, it seemed, and discloses that there were grounds for the hospitalization of Aleksanyan in a normal hospital.

Actually, I still hope that at the first sowing of the court on the merits of the case of the former vice president of the Yukos NK will be released.

In the end, even Putin, asked about Litvinenko, began to talk about death as a tragedy for any person and his family. That is, he hid his gloating behind the streamlined decent phrases in the spirit of abstract humanism. He understood that the open expression of feelings is impractical.

And here is how. The prosecutor informs the audience about AIDS just to mourn over the doomed. He discloses medical secret, after which he asks the court to leave the defendant in prison. He does not see in this any logical, nor legal, nor moral inconsistencies. And the judge does not see. And the semi -raw Aleksanyan is taken back to the camera. To suffer from unbearable pain, suffocate from despair, die.

The case is unprecedented.

Still, the mature Soviet government, although he was in the quantitatively much in the quotes, did not reach such things. The mature Soviet government stubbornly, although unsuccessfully fought with slander against our political and social system. If she planted and rotted enemies, sometimes to death, then far from newspapers and television cameras. And if Yuri Galanskov, Vasil Stus or Anatoly Marchenko, was dying in the conclusion, then the mature Soviet government understood that it was a blow to the image of the state. She could strangle the dissenter in the gateway, but then it was customary to write off the hooligans. She was vicious as a bully and shy as a young lady at the same time, our native Soviet power.

I do not remember a single open process, even in the Stalin era, so that a deadly ill person is taken to court, announced what he is sick, and sent back to the cell. This could be shot - without any trial, so as not to cause with his serious illness and the appearance of damage to the happy country and did not spoil the mood to noble foreigners. I could put me in the camp, but again secretly, and my relatives to notify twenty years later that he died without surviving before the release. Everyone could. But in silence, in the dumbness, in the darkness of the pitch.

Today there is confusion. Mixing genres, styles, eras. Direct meanings and vileness, in international politics, in the domestic one, are made with a large gathering of television, in open, with spider seriousness or a sharp healing laugh. On a brightly lit stage under the ringing of bells, a cheerful gopot finishes the fallen. Type and God is, and everything is allowed.

However, even in this sense, Aleksanyan’s fact is set by some new record, which is still unattainable in previous matters, connected, for example, with the same Yukos. We have not yet observed such a combination of Gorbachev’s publicity with Gestapov's ruthlessness. The path from linden sadistic sentences to sadism in its pure form, and even with an admixture of exhibitionism, has been passed in just a few years.

Of course, something rational in all this madness can also be found.

Vasily Aleksanyan claims that he would have had to go as far away for a long time if he had agreed to testify against Khodorkovsky in a new process. That he is killed out of revenge for intransigence. Nevertheless, so much insanity in this cruelty is so much that any meaning dissolves in it without a trace. After all, they almost killed, why trample?

No, I will not contradict myself. I really hope that if Aleksanyan lives to the process, he will be released in the courtroom. At least for the reason that the murder of the opponent, as Putin once guessed, sometimes brings him more harm than criticism from the lips of a living enemy. I hope that pragmatism will be stronger than passion for meaningless torment. I understand that stupidity, but there is nothing more to hope for.