Federal level

A criminal case has been opened against Bozhena Rynski.

“It was established that on December 6 last year, at an uncoordinated opposition rally on Triumfalnaya Square, Rynsk publicly insulted a police officer, after which she posted his photographs and messages on the LiveJournal website, which contained expressions insulting police officers in general and those directly depicted in the photographs police officer," the press service said.

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Until very recently, the investigation of such “criminal crimes” was carried out mainly by police officers from the remote, bearish corners of Russia, from Syktyvkar to Komsomolsk-on-Amur - where neither the cops nor the judges had ever seen a Constitution newer than Brezhnev’s. Now, as we see, the fashion for reading LJ and initiating criminal cases based on it has reached Moscow. Legal nihilism is reaching the federal level.

The timing is symptomatic: Bozhena committed her monstrous crime six months ago. But then the party’s policy consisted of flirting with the people who came to Bolotnaya and Sakharov. Surkov said that the best people of the country took to the streets, Putin wrote articles about Internet democracy, the Duma adopted laws on the Potemkin political reform... The appearance in Moscow of local analogues of the “Terentyev case” or “Murtazin case” against this background seemed untimely, so as not to unthinkable to say.

Now the masks have been dropped, and the circus has reached Moscow with the initiation of criminal cases based on remarks on social networks. In this regard, the initiatives of the Duma werewolf journalist Khinshtein deserve special attention. He recently proposed not limiting himself to LiveJournal, but bringing Internet users to criminal liability for tweets, check-ins and statuses on Facebook.

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