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Frantic Marina
Deputy Marina Salier on the rostrum of the Lensovet. October 17, 1990 "I want Putin's case to come to court." On March 21, in the hospital of a small town in the Pskov region at the age of 77, Marina Salier of the 1990s died, Marina Salier was one of the bright stars of the Russian democratic movement. As the leader of the Leningrad Popular Front, in 1990, she, the doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, was elected People's Deputy of the Leningrad Council. In 1992, she headed a food commission there. At the same time in 1990-1993, he was a people's deputy of the Russian Federation.
It was in the Food Food Commission of St. Petersburg that Salier found out that, according to the documents signed by the chairman of the committee of foreign economic relations of the city hall Vladimir Putin, rare-earth metals, oil products and other raw materials worth more than $ 100 million were taken abroad. In exchange, parties of meat, potatoes, and poultry were supposed to receive in instead of St. Petersburg. Products, Salier claimed, did not enter or did not fully. Marina Salier transferred her report to the prosecutor's office and the control department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. The City Council of St. Petersburg recommended that Putin take off his post. But Anatoly Sobchak stood up for his subordinate. Salier was forgotten about the report. Again, he began to be widely discussed in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin Prime Minister. Then, fearing for her life, Marina Salier went to the village in the Pskov region and fell silent for ten years - until February 2010, when she gave her first interviews of Radio “Freedom” after many years of reclusion, in which she repeated her charges against Vladimir Putin.
Its last text, published after death, is a letter to Mikhail Prokhorov “On the need of the Constituent Assembly”. “The most important thing is that the convocation of the Constituent Assembly restores the legitimacy of power in Russia, interrupted in 1917. It seems to me extremely important, since we can legally put, finally, the cross on the communist past ... ”Today, the letter of Marina Salier Prokhorov is read as a testament. But why was she doomed to a voluntary link for so many years? And in her wise and fundamental ideas, her sharp judgments, neither Russian opposition politicians nor society were interested? Alas, this is the fate of many Russian reformers. Only after their death do we understand who we lost, and regret that they were not in demand ...
Vladimir Lukin,
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation:“In the 90s, being an informal leader of the democratic part of the deputy corps in St. Petersburg, Salier had a great influence on the formation of democratic power, headed by the mayor of Sobchak. But after the time, when Sobchak began to behave differently from her seemed right, she played a big role in his defeat in the elections. ”
Julius Rybakov,
Human rights activist:“In recent years, Marina Salier was in despondency, believing that everything she did was in vain. But when a new wave of protest movement began, she began to come to our St. Petersburg, participated in rallies and perked up. Having met Mikhail Prokhorov, which she really liked, she returned to the village with a new feeling: she was going to participate in politics. ”
Marina Salier,
February 4, 2012 at a rally in St. Petersburg:
“I want Putin’s case that I have been involved in 1992 to be brought to court. I want a court to take place for the illegal issuance of a license and non-renegade by our city of food from abroad, for the removal of raw materials from here, which Putin picked up ... ”