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Rus sitting
The wives of the convicts are fighting for their husbands
Wives of "men" are fighting for the liberation of loved ones all together
Rus sitting. In prisons and camps there are about 200 thousand prisoners on economic articles. Often these are businessmen from whom the raiders tried to select their assets. It was these stories that made the prison part of the public discussion in modern Russia, and bring them to the media, as a rule, the wife of the Sidel. The New Times met with these women for whom the prison became work
“Mostly the wives of officials and civil servants are abandoning in prisons,” says Olga Romanova, the coordinator of the Rus Sitting movement. - The military is still abandoned. And, oddly enough, it is real officers. Those who fought. "
Sideltsov, according to Romanova, can be classified as follows: “aspirations” (criminals), “tramps” (“noble thieves”: those who will not rob the apartment of a poor pensioner, but will be happy to rob the oligarch’s apartment), “Bosota” (thieves in the law) and “men” and generally everyone who tried to live according to the law, wants to prove their right and sought O).
“Tramp and“ barefoot ”families, as a rule, have no,” says Romanova. - The most faithful wives have “stirrup” - “Murki”. Here love is so love. The wives of economic ones rarely abandon their own. ”
Murki
The entrance to one of the control points of the Butyrskaya prison, where there are premises for programs and dates, is in charge of the leadership, for the townsfolk is incompetent: you need to turn from a crowded Novoslobodskaya street to a small arch at a store in the 45th house-and immediately fall into a different reality. Immediately behind the arch - a low staircase with brick railing leads to a dark door in a red wall painted with a red wall. Behind the door is a tiny courtyard with a church shop. Nearby is a bench on which you can smoke. There The New Times correspondent and met the first Murka. A dark -skinned girl in a fitted white jacket and high boots - a real beauty: thin, chubby, with a lush mane of black hair. She sits on a large box and smokes calmly. In the box, as it turned out, winter boots that were not taken from her.
“No, is that normal? The laces did not please them! - She is indignant. - Great boots. I tell them, let's pull out the laces. They reply that the holes for the laces are finished with pieces of iron - it is impossible. Okay, I say, I am eating up. Still not. Just P ... EC some. ” Ole is only 21. She has a guy in prison. She herself is Khokhlushka, and her boy is a Chechen. When asked what he sat down, she answered with a grin and not tenderness: "Fucking." The lover of Olya fucked up for four years. In jail - for eight months.
"Will you wait?" - "Certainly. I still do not need no one else, on other men and look disgusting, ”the girl replies confidently. “I don’t even go to clubs, or to restaurants, and I don’t walk with friends, I’m sitting at home all the time, with my parents.” Olya does not work, the family of a young man sends her money.
Two more well -dressed women come out of the checkpoint, approach Olya, greet them like girlfriends, smoke. “I’m from a date now,” the Armenian laughs, “estimate, my little bars has not been broken there.” Narus 37, although it looks much younger - a slender, energetic, confident woman. Her dark hair to the shoulders is perfectly laid, impeccable makeup on her face. A checkered coat, an elegant handbag in the hands, thin gloves - all in tone and taste. On Moscow streets, Naira could easily be mistaken for a business woman. "Do you often go here?" - "Several times a week." - "And how?" “Your business,” she answers briefly.
Naira is divorced. My husband and my husband parted after 20 years of marriage. And in prison she goes to a citizen of Tajikistan, who is 15 years younger than her. “They caught the stolen phone with the telephone,” he rolls his eyes, “that’s the ball.”
It was apparently caught for the first time, because they gave 6 years. Naira has been waiting for a year now. “Oh, I didn’t even notice how he flew. I am not at all bored at all, ”she assures. - The adult son supports me and brother. I'll wait. " In confirmation of her words, she takes out two forms from her handbag and explains that she will sign with her Tajik. “There is such hemorrhoids with this. First, you need to take permission from the head of the prison, then to the registry office and to the notary to wander itself. And on the appointed day, I myself will have to bring a notary here and someone from the registry office, and in the presence of the boss they will sign us. In short, not fast. They decided not to take the rings, they will take it anyway. Now I think whether to take permission for flowers. That is, I myself have to buy flowers myself, but it will be like it, as if he gave me. ”
"Will they give a wedding night?" - asks with a laugh Olya. “You are! They say, - Naira goes on a whisper, - if 10 thousand rubles to give the authorities, they will leave in private for three hours. " - “And I found out about the translation. I heard that to transfer to Grozny - 600 thousand rubles. But mine will not be transferred for any money, because he himself is from there, ”Olga shares.
The third girl in a conversation almost does not participate, she looks sad and confused. Her man in prison was only two months old, and she has not yet got used. “They didn’t give me a date,” she says finally. "How did you form a judge?" - "No, I asked the local authorities." “Ask for permission from the judge,” Naira says with knowledge.
The prices are also called: the blessing of the judge for dates costs 5 thousand rubles a month. 
Having frozen, the girls go inside the checkpoint - they signed up for a meeting with the authorities. Among those who are waiting in the checkpoint, the “Murki” stand out strongly - with clothes, and appearance, and funny faces. Olya again begins to be indignant at uneconified boots. A woman standing nearby, the mother of one of the prisoners of Butyrka, approaches and whispers: “Take a book of complaints, write a few thanks to the bosses, and when you go next time - take the book with you and show. They will take it right away. ” Girls do not believe her, but a woman brings a large blue book, opens and shows a number of notes written by her - for good content, for nutrition and human attitude. Under each note - the signature of the leadership. Olya immediately takes the book, sits on the sofa against the wall and begins to write.
Wife "men"
The wives of "Economic" in Butyrka are also frequent guests. On the day when the New Times correspondent visited Butyrka, one of the wives of the “men” was in the queue for gear - a woman of about forty, rather well -groomed, but it is clear that it was wrapped. She brought her husband vitamins. Irina at first spoke reluctantly, but then she broke through. She experienced the first shock when a year and a half ago, by order of competitors, they came to the husband’s company with a search: “The opera was in the Cartier watch and in shoes made of crocodile skin. He was not arrested immediately, but at first they were kept as a witness on the case. I went to work, no one called us anywhere, and then they came and took us - at 5.30 in the morning. We are standing at the door with children, and these handcuffs hooked him and took it, ”the woman recalls. The investigators arrived at the brand new Volvo XS90 and Toyota Land Cruser to arrest her husband. Irina, like Murki, calls the figures of bribes that she had to give, but these are the figures of a completely different order: the wives of the “men” are often bred to promises the complete liberation of her husband. "
The investigating authorities clearly know: relatives will look for contact. And the extortion of the dough begins: one hundred thousand, two hundred, a million rubles ...
““ In the investigating authorities, they clearly know: relatives will look for contact, ”Ira shares.“ And the extortion of the dough begins: one hundred thousand, two hundred, a million rubles ... They say: it was placed in the VAO (temporary detention center in the eastern district of Moscow), pay 50 thousand - and I will go out. I pay, and it turns out, it has already been transferred to the sailor (sizes “Sailor”) and this) There is no longer to do with it, ”says Irina with undisguised irritation.“ The last time I was extorted 2 million rubles.
Rus sitting
Such as Irina, the wives of the “men” and make up the backbone of the informal association “Sitting Rus'”. These women are trying to free their husbands by fighting the system. At one time, this “club of Russian women” had no name. The ladies began to gather in the end of 2009. At first, Olga Romanova, who had already given her husband, entrepreneur Alexei Kozlova, maximum publicity by that time, was the center of attraction. So, Tatyana Sabatovskaya, whose husband, colonel, has been serving a term for abuse of office for two years (see The New Times No. 27 of August 29, 2011), read Romanova’s articles, then decided to write her a letter and received an answer. Tatyana Kipiani himself learned about the activities of the journalist and managed to contact her from prison, then handed the phone to Romanova’s phone. But Olga Gurzhi in the club just recently, and she was brought by another participant with whom they encountered a pre -trial detention center. 
Romanova first met with women one by one, and then began to appoint group meetings. This year, she, together with her friend, human rights activist and social activist Irina Yasina, came up with the group - “Sitting Rus'”. The association has its own Facebook page, a logo (double-headed eagle, one half of which is in uniform, the other in a striped robe), the site rus-sidyasha.org. How many participants in the "Rus'" - no one knows for sure. According to Alex Dmitriev, one of the administrators of Rus (by the way, no one is sitting), there are branches in Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Omsk, Kemerovo, support groups in other countries - France, Canada. Among the participants, not only the wife of the Economic Articles on economic articles, the same “Murki” come. Not so long ago, Romanov came to Romanov, Olga Gypsy, whose husband was serving not the first term for minor robbery. She could not give him the necessary medicines in the colony and came for advice. “Recently, she called and said:“ Do you want me to bring real gypsies to your club - with scarves and songs? ” - Laughs Romanova.
Ladies do not want to register their organization: they are sure that as soon as this happens, they will be put right there all. "Rus'" exists on donations. “The so -called“ smart ”business, that is, people of intellectual labor, sacrifices. For example, Anton Tabakh (senior analyst at the Uralsib Capital debt analysis directorate), Elena Koneva (head of Comon, engaged in marketing research), Sergey Petrov (owner of the Rolf group of companies). There were no donations, for example, from the oil workers, ”said Romanova The New Times. Funds go to pay lawyers and support those who do not have enough money after the husband’s landing.
Basically in the movement of women who lived with their husbands 15–20, or even 30 years old. Most have children. Few of them work: how they go to prison for work, to the courts and seek their affairs. They live at the expense of the help of children, relatives, those funds that remained from husbands-entrepreneurs. All the convicts after the arrests of the spouses, of course, survived more than one terrible day, but, looking at the Rosso & Bianco restaurant in the arms lane, where “Rus” gathers every Wednesday from seven hours, you will find a society that is more like a club of successful women. They look good, restrained, but smile, there is no despondency on their faces. There no one sobs and does not complain. Olga Romanova leads evenings. She represents new participants, briefly talks about their problems. Then the last meetings on the affairs of the sitting husbands are taken to the agenda. Women begin the discussion, and although they cannot avoid emotional statements about judges and other representatives of the system, the proposals sound very constructive, the numbers of articles are pronounced in memory, the constitution is quoted. “Girls, read Skuratov’s comments on the Code of Code, it helps a lot,” one of the participants advises.
The club, in fact, has two functions: assistance in organizing the struggle for the liberation of economic prisoners and psychological support. “We go in groups to court hearings,” says Tina Kankia, who has a husband in a pre -trial detention center who survived a number of strokes in prison (see The New Times No. 34 of October 17, 2011). - When you are one -on -one in court with the judges who tried Magnitsky, they can do anything. And when we come all together, they have to at least portray the court. And you are not so scary. " 