Where did the circus come?

Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced a hunger strike. The unlimited, in protest against extension to him and Plato Lebedev, the terms of imprisonment. The Nonfamil of the accomplice, the chairman of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, was sent a letter that reports that Judge Danilkin, holding the prisoners in custody, "openly ignored the changes," made a month ago to the Code of Criminal Procedure. Personally President Medvedev.

These were important changes. It was assumed that from now on people accused of economic crimes can be detained only in exceptional cases. These cases were regulated, and not one of them suits either Khodorkovsky or Lebedev.

Mikhail Borisovich writes about the "demonstrative sabotage" of the law introduced by the president. In fact, this is an appeal to Medvedev. The guarantor of the Constitution asked a banal question: do you follow the implementation of your laws or do you care?

In general, anyone who writes about this case is doomed to say banality. Unless, of course, a person is not busy with an important state affair as president, prime minister, as a prosecutor, as a special propagandist, sovereign journalist or patriotic blogger. Then, of course, he can afford bright, original judgments. The fact that the chances of liberation at Khodorkovsky-Lebedev will appear only after their loud repentance, that the former head of the Yukos’s hands on the elbow in the blood, that he was friends with Basayev, stole all the oil and intended to transfer the nuclear shield of the Pentagon’s homeland.

And ordinary journalists and ordinary citizens who follow the course of the process are forced to repeat two or three hopeless mantras for years. About the political order. About Putin, who takes personal scores with the former oligarch. About the Kafkian tragicomedy of the court. These trivial thoughts from constant use do not become brighter, and the evil triumphant in this process is also banalized, according to the philosopher. A deer is an animal, a sparrow - a bird, Khodorkovsky is a sen, Russia is our Fatherland, death is inevitable.

Mikhail Borisovich is also doomed to repeat. In a recent interview with CNN, he once again said that everyone who has eyes, ears, hearts and brains, and so know. In his usual manner, mild-ironic, with an admixture of fatigue and hopelessness, he explained why the new court was started: so that he and Plato would not be released. What relations connect him with the customer of the process: "It is obvious that I personally are more than unpleasant to Putin." Well, about the supremacy of the law in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow: "Actually political motivation is not a subject of discussions for a long time. The legally formed part of the company came to consensus and the obvious absurdity of the prosecution itself. Therefore, the answer to the question of the rule of law is excessive."

It is boring to remind you of all this - how many times they are talking.

On the contrary, the prosecution continues to be original, striking the usual defendants and other ordinary citizens. The prosecutors began the interrogation of the prisoners and, instead of pushing the details of the abduction of "all oil" from them, delved into the past. The prosecutor Lakhtin was interested in everything in the world: how the company "Yukos" was created, but what banks gave money, and how the loans were repaid, but what Potanin was supervised by the pledged auctions ... The judge in bewilderment, the audience laughs, the hot -tempered Platon Lebedev demands to "stop the ugliness", Khodorkovsky politely and in detail tells his former company, and observers and observers and observers and observers and observers and observers and observers and observers. They are lost in conjecture: what would it mean?

Lawyer Vadim Kluvgant does not hide pessimism. The failure of the second process, prosecutors, in his opinion, are preparing the third, during which they are going to sew a business associated with the "illegal privatization of" Yukos ". It is logical in its own way. If you can judge Khodorkovsky with Lebedev by articles that are equally suitable for all businessmen of Russia, then why can not be planted for privatization? Only there are, of course, no one else. As part of the tradition, laid down in the Basmann and Meshchansky ships of Moscow. Even if the statute of limitations for these matters has long passed.

However, in my opinion, there is a reason for cautious optimism. This feeling is also banal, not leaving citizens since this absurd process began. The fact is that the situation in the country has become slightly more complicated, and we can no longer speak with complete confidence about Putin's hostages as something eternal. The thaw is not a thaw, but the mood in the state is gradually changing, and something seriously resembles a perestroika era. Miner riots, for example, with which the latest history of freedom in the country began.

After all, again, like twenty years ago, we have no idea what they have upstairs there and to whom the named freedom seems like a sweet need. Therefore, perhaps the sensitive judge Danilkin began to shout at the prosecutors more often, and the prosecutors themselves, not knowing where the wind would blow from, began to pull the cat for the detergent organs, slowing down the process with all their might and finding out the secrets of the past millennium.

The defendant Khodorkovsky is interested in completely different. It is important for him to find out whether the laws signed by the president are executed in the country, or are not executed. Medvedev is the real leader of the country or not. And these questions are not abstract at all, since, as Mikhail Borisovich writes, lawlessness in the Hamovnic Court "will immediately be replicated by corrupt bureaucrats in hundreds of other less loud affairs."

He believes that the chairman of the Supreme Court will hear him. That the president will pay attention to his letter and, if he is a living person, and not a dead function, will react at least from pride. In this hunger strike, the protest is all in great way - both despair and contempt, but most of all - hopes.

However, to remember about the hope that dies the last is also a banality. But after all, no one promised us that it would be fresh and exciting. That this circus with prosecutors and escort will end as the law tells, and not as the guarantor of the Constitution wishes.