Walking with Putin - about the "Yukos case"

“Public executions seem wrong to me,” says Moscow State University, who in 2003, when they arrested Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, has not even received her first passport. That the generation of those who go along with Putin knows about the “Yukos case”, which he does not know and what he thinks about this, he asked The New Times

The calendar page immediately made a student at a media person

The 3rd year student of the evening department of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University Margarita Zhuravleva starred with five friends in the calendar with “uncomfortable” issues to the Prime Minister. The question of the fate of Khodorkovsky asked Putin it was she. Why did you ask? “Yes, perhaps he is really guilty in the first case,” she says. - But it is unlikely that in our country there is a successful businessman of the nineties who would make capital without any violations of the law. Then why is he only sitting? Public executions seem wrong to me, and this is it. The rules of the game should be the same for everyone. ” Zhuravleva at the Faculty of Journalism has many supporters - the correspondent of The New Times interviewed about 20 students, and each of them more or less reasonably stated: the second case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky - the theater of absurdity.

From zero to mmm
Students of other universities with whom the New Times said are not so unanimous in assessments. Not everyone was ready and name the names of the defendants - they simply did not know them. Moreover, in different universities they demonstrated a very different degree of awareness of the Khodorkovsky case and about himself. The first question that The New Times asked the current students of the Moscow Chemical and Technology Institute. Mendeleev, namely, this university graduated from Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 1986 - which of the now -living famous graduates of their Alma Mater do they know? Not a single name Khodorkovsky named. Freshman of the Machine -Building Faculty of MSTU named after Bauman Kirill Ivanov first heard about Mikhail Khodorkovsky from The New Times. The fourth -year student of Baumanki Alexei Konyakovsky is sure that this is a politician whose it was widely publicized, but what is the essence of the matter - neither a dream nor spirit. And his friend Semyon heard that Khodorkovsky "was engaged in the sale of cell phones." In other words, he confused him with entrepreneur Evgeny Chichvarkin.

“This is an oligarch who started from scratch. Then he suddenly got up, and as he scored a lot of money, he emigrated to England, ”recalls Konstantin, a student of the faculty of mechanical engineering, also, obviously, of Chichvarkin, who, according to Internet surveys, is the most popular businessman of the country. Although he is forced to hide from the persecution of law enforcement officers in London. Several Baumanchi students are sure that Khodorkovsky is the creator of sites for preparing for chemistry exams. Others recall that his case is now considered a second time in court, but the accusations are absurd: nothing reprehensible that he “created the MMM financial pyramid” (for which we recall, Sergei Mavrodi), they do not see his contribution to education. Students of the third and fourth courses of Baumanka Alexander Shipov, Arseny Nikonov, Mikhail Zaretsky, Alexei Nikulin know about Khodorkovsky that he is "oligarch, who is judged for non -payment of taxes." They recognized this name just a couple of years ago and were never interested in the details of criminal cases. But the future engineer Pyotr Gusev first heard about the former head of Yukos for a long time, even when he studied at school, from his parents' conversations: “He was the chairman of the board of directors of the Yukos. It seems that the conflict between him and the Putin team arose after the company tried to buy deposits that have not yet been mastered by anyone. So they put him. He is actually a smart man. "

"Oh..tya, but I will not be surprised"
Student of the Moscow Law Academy. Kutafina Alena unexpectedly saw a lot in common in the fate of the recently dismissed mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov and Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “They were both part of the existing system, they were allowed a lot, they turned a blind eye to something. But then the attitude towards them changed - and the rink drove along them. It seems to me that the authorities committed stupidity in both cases: it is still how to live 10 years with a man, and after parting to assure that all these years he was a goat. ” Alexey, student of the University of Economics. Plekhanova, recalls that his aunt after the “landing” of Khodorkovsky even wrote to the businessman in prison and received an answer. “I know that he was not engaged in very legal financial transactions and he was imprisoned for tax evasion,” says Alexei. “But everyone was doing this, and therefore the trial of him is some kind of strange.” “The trial of him is wrong,” his fellow student Mikhail Kogan is sure. “He should not sit in prison for stealing oil from himself.” “The court does not solve anything, everything is decided above,” Svyatoslav Ivanov sums up.

Many students of Plekhanovka are confused in detail, but they know one thing firmly: the businessman crossed the road to Putin and did not share in time. Yes, it seems, was the head of an oil company. But what - they don’t remember, this is not the main thing. The main thing is to share.

The freshman of the Faculty of Taxation Nikita Khazin has been following the court for almost a year. During this time, he changed his opinion about Khodorkovsky: at first he thought that the thief, then he realized that he was not. His friend Vladimir is Laconic: “Of course, I would like to be an optimist, but - no illusions. If Khodorkovsky and Lebedev is given for 14 years, I oh.. Ye, but I won’t be surprised. We live in Russia. ”

Cooler than kafka
According to a survey conducted by the Levada Center sociologists in October, about 14% of Russians watched the process of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, 48% did not follow, and more than 26% of the respondents said that they did not hear about it. However, there is progress - in 2009, almost 60% did not know anything about the second business of the former leaders of the Yukos. If we take into account that federal television channels diligently hushed up all the news from the court (the process was mentioned only in the summer of 2010, when Viktor Khristenko and German Gref came to the Khamovnican Court as witnesses, and on the day when Khodorkovsky performed with the last word, the plot of 20 seconds was shown on the air of the first channel), then the motherland of young people about the process of Khodorkovsky And Lebedev is not surprising.

For a student of the Humanitarian Faculty of MAI Olga, the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is almost an artifact: “In its grotesque and absurdity of accusations, the second process over him even surpassed the works of Kafka. The person is accused of stole his oil himself. Just like Gogol’s: “The non-commissioned officer widow carved herself!” But there is nothing to laugh at. After all, in fact, if someone in this matter robbed himself-he deceived-caring, then this is our sick state. Sometimes I am ashamed of the country in which I live. "

“I cannot argue with the attitude towards the trial of Khodorkovsky,” said the New Times, a legal faculty of the legal faculty of the GU-VSHE Peter. - Because, in truth, I can’t imagine what exactly happened in those years. And I don’t understand the economy poorly. So everything that I have is the opinion of people who trust more than the Russian court in an obvious political process. Since so many smart people say that the theft of oil in these volumes is an absurd accusation, which means that it is probably not very reasonable. And in any case, a person who holds so after 7 years of conclusion causes great respect. ”