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Politsyki Medvedev
Bad Theater in the Moscow City Court
Politsyki Medvedev. On May 31, the European Court of Human Rights will consider the first complaint of Mikhail Khodorkovsky against the Russian state: it has been waiting for its turn for 7 years. And a week before, the Moscow City Court upheld the verdict of Judge Danilkin, reducing the punishment of the most famous prisoners of Russia for only one year. On the same day, Amnesty International recognized convicted by prisoners of conscience. How the justice of the Moscow City Court runs - observed The New Times
On May 24, the hall No. 507 of the Moscow City Court at the Bogorodsky Val for five hours became a place of action for the evil political theater, in which the heroes, the drama, and the finale were pre -bended.
The collapse of the law is Mikhail Khodorkovsky - in Cherny and Platon Lebedev - in their unchanged bright windbreaker sat in a glass aquarium, where they sat on a bench Tikhonov and Evgenia Hasis before them for two months in an embrace.
* * April 28, 2011 In the same hall, the collegium of the jury of the Moscow City Court found them guilty of the murder of Markelov and Baburova. .
Next to the aquarium - security: a dummy special forces in a sowing beret and two FSIN employees in blue uniforms. At the door - three more healthy young people in black knitted berets and black camouflage with “Special Forces” stripes.
Lawyers - in costumes and ties. On the contrary, state prosecutors: Valery Lakhtin, as always, will be fastened to all the buttons of a blue uniform, Gulchehhhhhhhhhhimov Ibragimov - in a white prosecutor’s shirt with epaulets. Parents, wives and children of the defendants - closer to the aquarium. While the meeting has not yet begun, Plato Lebedev smiles and builds faces, turning to his relatives.
Journalists sit at the jury. Troika of judges enters. The presiding judge Vladimir Usov is known for always entrusting him to high -profile affairs
* Vladimir Usov examined the cases on charges of an employee of the STUKOS Security Service Alexei Pichugin, on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov. Khodorkovsky was the first: “I am not looking for justice here. I just want to draw attention to lawlessness in court. ” And he does not just set out defects, absurdities and contradictions in the verdict, repeating for the thousandth time that “theft of oil by buying is a deliberate deception,” he emphasizes: his business is a common thing. And this is extremely important: the court hearing broadcasts RIA-News, it can be watched on the Internet, and three monitors are installed in the hall on the fifth floor of the Moscow City Court, and the public who has not entered the hall still sees everything.
“I am not a lawyer, you have already seen dozens of such things. The goals are different: somewhere politics, somewhere extortion, somewhere “sticks” and “stability of the sentence,” continues the convict. “Similarity in one thing: judges demonstrate contempt for the law and their dependence on the vertical.” Judge Usov shudders, almost plaintively: "Let's get closer to the matter, let's get better."
And the ex-head of the Yukos is trying specifically: “President Medvedev asked him and the prosecutor general about the facts of election justice. I report: the prices of Yukos, Rosneft and all other oil companies are close to each other and are much lower than prices in Western Europe. If this is theft, judge for the theft of all the oil produced in the country, including the Prime Minister V.V. Putin and his deputy I.I. Sechin, which requires oil companies to reduce prices. Moreover, Sechin himself established them, being the head of Rosneft. Judge Usov takes off his glasses, almost the same as Judge Viktor Danilkin did in the Khamovniki court when Khodorkovsky was remembered by Putin, and asks: "Closer to our case."
“I do not ask for a decrease in the deadline,” says the convict. - Why don't I want you to continue the tradition of arbitrariness with your conclusion: everything is legal and reasonably? Not because it will change something in my fate-in the end, my fate does not depend at all on your decision. The legal state begins with an honest court. The collapse of law is a betrayal. ”
No one applaudes in the hall: judges are afraid. And he himself does not hide fear: God forbid, instead of discussing the economic aspects, political background will come up. But the applause is heard from the hall: this is how the public reacts to the speech of the defendant, following the video broadcasting process.
Falsification lawyers take turns proved: the verdict is full of contradictions and inconsistencies. There are falsifications in it, lawyer Yuri Schmidt is sure. True, the judge Usov practically does not let him speak. The written text of the sentence differs from what Judge Danilkin announced, Schmidt insists, the verdict was adjusted by other persons. He calls one of the authors of the sentence - the head of the investigative group of the prosecutor Salavat Karimov. “We are talking about deliberate falsifications, official forgery, interference in the administration of justice. The ultimate goal is to prevent the release of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev to freedom ... "
When Schmidt falls silent, the mustache gives the floor to the prosecutor Lahtin. “The arguments of the defenders and defendants that receiving revenue allegedly excludes theft, are unfounded. They are found guilty by the court verdict, ”he reads on a piece of paper and asks to change the sentence only in terms of the total volume of stolen oil
* Even at the stage of debate in the Khamovnichesky court, state prosecutors abandoned the numbers of abducted oil, sane. They reduced their amount from 347.5 million tons to 128 million tons worth more than 68 billion rubles. In the verdict, Judge Danilkin left all the same 347.5 million tons of oil, and in cassation Lakhtin asked to reduce this figure that the court three wrote down in the decision. Be cursed! At exactly five o’clock, having been having two hours, the trio makes a decision: Danilkin’s sentence to recognize as legal, reduce the punishment for a year. Journalists and the audience in the lobby are disappointed: “Have you been ate only for a year? Only?" The situation is heating up, and now someone is throwing: "Bastards!"
The audience boils. "Disgrace!" - The woman screams in a blue dress, a regular of the process in the Hamovnic Court. Telepertors come out of the hall, the audience begins to pose. The bewildered relatives of the defendants stop at the lattice, fingering a small corridor, according to which the defendants should conduct. No one is crying. Nastya Khodorkovskaya holds in her hands a bouquet of lily of the valley, the same grandmother’s - Marina Filippovna. The crowd - a 20 man - begins to chant: “Freedom Khodorkovsky and Lebedev! Down with the power of the Chekists! Be cursed! " The bailiffs guarding the bars are trying to stop the unauthorized rally: “Until you leave, we will not get the defendants!” “We won’t go anywhere, we are not afraid of you,” Natalya Fateeva calmly explains them to them. And the bailiffs are silent, and the special forces quickly and quickly withdraw convicts from the hall. Curtain.
The order is to kill
Alexander Kuchma, a former salaker Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the Krasnokamenskaya colony, freed in February 2011, in several interviews told why on April 14, 2006, wounded Khodorkovsky with a knife in the face. In a telephone conversation with The New Times, Kuchma confirmed that at the end of March 2006, two unknown people in civilian clothes in the office of the IK-10 of the city of Krasnokamensk invited him to wound Khodorkovsky in the eye. “They were not very worried about what would happen to him later. He will die - he won’t die, ”Kuchma said The New Times. He calls the names of those who knew about the impending attempt, and those who later engaged in the discrediting of Khodorkovsky, trying to imagine that Kuchma attacked him, defending himself from sexual harassment. One of them is the head of the colony Alexander Ryabko (dismissed after a fire in the Krasnokamenskaya colony on April 20, 2011): without his knowledge, no one could go into the zone and talk with the convict.
Sergey Larin - First Deputy Department for the Prostees of Prison of the FSIN pre -trial detention center. “He was engaged in slander at Khodorkovsky,” says Larina Kuchma (in August 2008, already in Vladimir prison, the officer demanded that Kuchma write his testimony about Khodorkovsky’s sexual harassment on the camera). The deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Vladimir region Anatoly Dikun, according to Kuchma, demanded that he write a statement to the Ingodinsky court: de, Khodorkovsky does not deserve parole. Kuchma believes that the investigating authorities will not pay attention to his revelations. He says that he receives threats, but does not believe that publicity will be able to protect him. “They talked about Khodorkovsky a lot, but this did not save him. You do not know what is full of people in Russia who do not care about the law? ” He asks.
The press service of the FSIN interview with Kuchma refuses to comment, in private conversations, explaining that everything described was happening under the former head of Yuri Kalinin. And they nod to the Investigative Committee, which should conduct a verification of facts set forth in publications. SK is still silent.
What next?
When the written text of the decision of the Moscow City Court is ready, it will be brought to the pre -trial detention center and within ten days after that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev should be sent to the colony. Which is unknown. In the colony, they theoretically will be able to petition on parole. Lawyers will file complaints with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court and the Supreme Court, appealing the decision of the cassation board. However, they have no illusions, according to the defenders, they have.