There is a court for the freedom of every word Again, the work of the Lipetsk television company TVK is blocked. The cultural layer of documents and publications about the dispute between small (compared to NTV and Gazprom, TV-6 and LUKOIL) "economic entities"...

For the freedom of every word there is a court

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five work of the Lipetsk television company TVK blocked. The cultural layer of documents and publications about the dispute between small (compared to NTV and Gazprom, TV-6 and LUKOIL) "economic entities" around TVK is for archaeologists and historians. Let them understand the moral and legal cataclysms of the times of building wild capitalism in Russia simultaneously with the rule of law. Let's limit ourselves to quotes.

The political meaning of the action: “In the spring of 2002 elections will be held in the region. At which, according to experts, two contenders for the governor's position are likely to clash - Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK Vladimir Lisin and current Governor Oleg Korolev.

Mechanism of the conflict: “The controlling stake in TVK LLC was sold already a year ago - first to the Moscow bank Zenit, and then to Noble Trust. The sale of a share in an LLC requires prior waiver of the right of pre-emptive purchase of this share by the remaining shareholders, and such waiver was received in writing. And when the oligarch and the governor quarreled, the small shareholders of the LLC decided to appeal the sale, and not themselves. For them, as if incapacitated, the new owner of their shares, Yelets JSC Energia, a manufacturer of mineral water and batteries, spoke out.

Shareholders said about their signatures on the refusal: we didn’t even know that we were signing. Just blank sheets waved. Let's add: "Energy" is a chronic debtor to the budget. However, 75 thousand dollars for the purchase of a block of shares was found very quickly. Does this situation remind you of anything?

In September 2001, a fierce battle for information height began in Lipetsk. The new shareholders, without waiting for the final court decision, chose the new management of the TV company. And on his behalf, new agreements were concluded, including on the protection of premises.

New security, new order. They took control of the TVK studio and the editorial offices of the local newspapers TVK-Courier and Delovoy Lipetsk located in the same building. Journalists were not allowed to work.

“For the third day, the confrontation continues between the journalists of the Lipetsk channel TVK and its new leader, the legality of whose appointment is disputed by the creative team.”

“At the moment, there are several opposite court decisions... On August 31, the judge of the Sovetsky Court of Lipetsk, Ms. Davydova, forbade the registration chamber to make changes to the company's constituent documents, and also ordered not to obstruct the general director of the television company, Alexander Lykov. The Lipetsk Arbitration Court on September 5 issued a similar decision. On the same day, Judge Davydova reversed her decision to ban any action by new director Dmitry Kolbasko on behalf of TVK.”

All quotes are from September 2001.

It happens that the resource has not yet started, and the court decides according to the codes, but in the evening they suddenly met and talked, and the same court suddenly realizes how wrong it was. That the opposite is true, which is what the decision the next day says. And the court can give any answers to any questions. Because every court has its own administrative and financial resources.

The journalistic team of TVK is good. Laureates, prize-winners, the best regional TV channel of the Central Federal District, etc. But the creative intelligentsia in such performances always gets the role of a hostage. And no amount of public opinion can save him. And the legal side of the matter at some stage ceases to play any role at all.

November 2001 “A regular hearing of the Lipetsk Regional Court on the case of the independent television company TVK was held. The new decision of the court gave rise to more questions than answers about the future fate of the TV company, since it completely contradicts the decision of the regional arbitration court, which on October 11, 2001 invalidated the change in the leadership of TVK, pointing to multiple violations of the law on the rights of the founders and the journalistic staff of the company.

When the media starts using the words “administrative resource” too often, governors (or presidents) usually say: oh, what are you!.. But why do we need this? We are decent people, we do not know about any resource. We, on the contrary, are on the lookout ... sorry, on guard of the rule of law.

However, after killing TV-6, everything is possible. Plus, what a lucky coincidence! - Lipetsk TVK relayed exactly TV-6.

Interestingly, both democracy and private property, the greatest achievements and values ​​of the Western world, in Russia quite quickly learned something completely different and willingly passed from hand to hand. They didn't even have to be raped.

What democracy, such and judges. The main thing is the skewness of all our capitalist gains: the ratio of conscience/money obviously tends to zero. It is nothing strange that in the administrative-monetary system there are no criteria of honor. No one is pointing a finger: there, that judge has gone! Hey, your dishonor!

January 2002 “On the evening of January 16, during the regular news program of the Lipetsk television company TVK, bailiffs entered the studio complex to comply with the decision of the Soviet Court of Lipetsk on the transfer of powers to the new leadership.”

Not so long ago, one TV channel was shared in Voronezh. And the same thing: one court - one thing, another - another ... And people in camouflage trampled along the corridors, using "measures of physical coercion" against journalists. High non-agreed parties are measured by administrative and monetary resources. At the suit of a hare, whose hut was bast, and the fox had an icy one, one court makes one decision, another another, a third finds new opportunities in the case. Especially if legal entities and individuals are mixed up in a bunch. And each court operates under its own administrative and economic resources.

Serving the "roofs" endures fuss.

Although there is, there is still faith in the moral and volitional qualities of judges. But the surprisingness of many decisions, including the final ones, makes this faith an infinitesimal quantity, and mathematicians usually neglect such quantities.

Relations between the authorities and the media are also very skewed. On the one hand, the authorities do not see or hear them at close range. You can report as much as you like that Karl stole corals from Clara, and present supporting documents. If the authorities do not have their own interest in Clara's corals, she will not be interested in Karl.

On the other hand, the government loves the media with great and bright pre-election love. Without meeting reciprocity, this passion is capable of sweeping away everything in its path.