Without trial: consequences

European politicians and journalists with some even surprise took the decision of the Ukrainian Higher Special Svyad, who upheld the sentence to the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. It would seem that everything is clear both from the legal and from a political point of view. With the legal - that the verdict received for political reasons must be canceled. With the political one - that even if you do not want to cancel the sentence, you can send the case for an additional investigation, which would make it possible to free the opposition leader before the parliamentary elections - and not risk the non -recognition of their legitimacy.

But in the post -Soviet space, a completely different logic works - the enemy must sit in prison, and the sentence is written not in court. When Khodorkovsky was judged the second time in the West, and in Russia itself it seemed to many that an absurd accusation would crumble in court, because it was impossible, because the judge could not think about his reputation. But we live where the judges have no reputation. The judge here is an official, and the highest reward for him is the praise and recognition of people who actually should not be for the judge either authorities or all the bosses: some employee of the presidential administration or even the head of this administration. Well, if he called, entrusted, or at least thanked himself - it means that life was a success!

This crazy bearing space is by no means dangerous not only for Tymoshenko and Lutsenko in Ukraine, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in Russia, Neklyaev and Sannikov in Belarus - it is dangerous primarily for ordinary citizens who will never run for presidents or earn billions. Because the court theoretically can make a fair decision only in a situation where there is no intervention of money or power - or both. And money and power intervene in the work of the court almost always. The unrighteous sentences of Tymoshenko, Khodorkovsky or Neklyaev are just the visible pinnacle of the ugly iceberg of hopelessness. There, under water, crippled fates, the sewn case, sewn the accusation.

It is ridiculous to think that in a country in which there is no honest court, there may be economic and political competition, freedom of speech, real, and not Potemkin triumphs. It is ridiculous to think that the authorities of such a country can really fight corruption and arbitrariness. Yes, we hear conversations on this topic as much as we like, but if the presidents encourage reprisals against his political opponents, if Putin begins to choke on the mention of Khodorkovsky, Yanukovych - to gloomy at the mention of Tymoshenko, and Lukashenko - to be rascent when reminding Sannikov, what kind of real court can be discussed?

Therefore, people live in fear, the most ordinary sticky fear. Yes, someone cuts the truth-uterus, someone goes to the rally, someone will picket something, but the vast majority is just afraid, because they understand that they will never be reached the truth, and if anything will simply rot in trial, in the isolator, in the colony ... Therefore, those who take a risk of doing business without a relative-chino or policeman, they will quickly bring out about the line and forget about it forever about it and forget about it forever A nightmare of daily fear and humiliation. And most prefers not to take risks and just live on permitted, hoping that at least children will be better. But it will not. In countries without trial and investigation, people are never better, because such countries are not developing. They die.