Disassipling the foundation

How experts were selected for Pussy Riot

"Dreamed the spiritual basis of the state." The investigation in the case of the Panchew Pussy Riot Pink-Love in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is completed. Ahead of the acquaintance of the accused with seven volumes of the criminal case and the court. The main evidence of guilt was the third psychological linguistic examination, claiming: the girls acted based on hatred and enmity to the Orthodox believers. How experts were selected for the prosecution, I found out The New Times

“Yes, I gave an examination in the case of an incident in the XXS with my colleagues,” one of the participants of the Third Expertise, a specialist in the history of Russian literature, academician of the Russian People’s Academy of Sciences Vsevolod Troitsky told The New Times. - We made an honest conclusion, my opinion has not changed, I even previously outlined it in the newspaper Rus Sovereign. This is the opinion: “Imagine if this happened under Tsar John the Terrible. What would happen? Defly corpses of blasphemers would lie somewhere, thrown to be torn to pieces by the dogs. Terrible! But meanwhile, what was committed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, by the seriousness of the crime, in essence, is much worse than the cruel execution I mentioned ” * * Published on the website of the newspaper“ Rus Sovereign ”March 27, 2012.
His colleague, director of the Institute of State-Confessional Relations and Law, Member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Doctor of Law, Igor Ponkin, is known that in 2008 he was a member of the group of experts who recognized the Cartoon "Christmas Songs of Mr. Govnyashka" * * Episode from the animated series "South Park". a work exciting religious enmity. The expert community was remembered and his report “On the right to a critical assessment of homosexuality and the legal restrictions on imposing homosexuality”.
The third author of the indictment is the Orthodox child psychologist Vera Abramenkova from the Institute of Psychological and Pedagogical Problems of Childhood. Pinkin and Abramenkova could not give comments on The New Times: according to the law on expert activities, they are forbidden to discuss their conclusions up to the sentence.
What a movie is about
On June 5, Pussy Riot lawyers first showed reporters for the first time that only those who were actually seen at 11 a.m. in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21, 2012. So: on a lounges - this is an elevation in front of the altar - four girls in multi -colored balaclavas. One takes an electric guitar from the cover, but the guard immediately removes it from the salt. The other three girls in the purple, yellow and lilac balaclav go on a salt, jump, high, like in a cancan, raising their legs, shouting: "Srani, shit, shit of the Lord." One of them kneels and is baptized. The guards literally take out the "singers" from the Soli and withdraw from the temple. The whole action recorded on the video camera lasts less than a minute and makes the impression of a strange theatrical trick, but does not draw on a “maliciously conscious and carefully planned action to humiliate the feelings and beliefs of the numerous adherents of the Orthodox Christian religion and diminish the spiritual basis of the state,” as the decision said to be involved in the decision to attract as The accused of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, which was issued on May 28 by the investigator of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow by lieutenant colonel Artem Ranchenkov.
Without composition
However, the basis of the prosecution is not at all the record that was demonstrated by reporters, but a video clip, which was made later and posted on the Internet, says lawyer Nikolai Polozov. In other words, the participants of the punk-grain are going to judge not at all for what they did in the temple, but for the video on the Internet.
The lawyer Mark Feigin also says about the same thing: “There are no hooligan actions in the actions of our clients, and when I asked the investigator why they were charged with a video clip, and not the original record in the temple, he replied that it would be impossible to attract them under an article on hooliganism: they did not destroy anything in the temple, did not touch the icons. They only shouted some words, but for this they do not bring to criminal liability. Further: according to the article on hooliganism, you can not explore the video clip, it could be “fastened” to the 282nd article of the Criminal Code, which is why, in order to be safe, two volumes of the criminal case were sent to the SK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They now decide whether it is worth blaming our clients and under this article ” *** Art. 213 of the Criminal Code, b)-“hooliganism, that is, a gross violation of public order, expressing a clear disrespect for society, committed based on political, ideological, national or religious hatred or enmity regarding any social group.” Art. 282 of the Criminal Code - “excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity” ..
Recall that it is in the video clip that there are words: “The Virgin, Putin, the run”, and as many believe, it was they who caused the “soloists” of the “soloists” of Pussy Riot.
In the prospect of initiating a new criminal case under the article 282, lawyers do not really believe: this is an article of moderate severity, the term for it is less (up to five years in prison) than under an article on hooliganism. In addition, I would have to attract new accused: those who shot the clip imposed a sound, etc. Defenders believe that the investigation does not want to "increase the bench of the defendants." It is no coincidence that they arrested only three girls, and the rest of the participants in the XXS called “unidentified persons”, although they are well known to their names and location.
Against the Orthodox
“This is not a legal resolution, but a work of a detective nature,” the lawyer Polozov says about the prosecution. And the deacon Andrei Kuraev called him the “theological nonsense” in his blog, explaining that the very fact of the laying of the laity on the salt is not blasphemy.
However, if it was only about blasphemy, then the actions of girls would fall under Article 5, 26.2 “Insulting the religious feelings of citizens” of the Code of Administrative Offenses *** Code of administrative offenses. And they would be punished with a fine of 1 thousand rubles, and on the current charge they face up to seven years in prison.
“With his actions Tolokonnikova N.A. Together with Samutsevich E.S., Alekhina M.V. and unidentified persons in a rough way violated public order ... They opposed themselves to the Orthodox world, defiantly and demonstratively tried to depreciate the protected and revered church traditions and dogmas for centuries ... They explicitly and unequivocally expressed their religious hatred and enmity to one of the currently existing religions - Christianity, fonding to its equal rights, distinctness and high significance for a large number of nations and peoples, ”the resolution says.
It smacks not with simple hooliganism, but almost by the undermining of the foundations of the universe.
“I would not want to give theological assessments to this text, he does not have to be theological,” commented the New Times, the accusations made against girls Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin. - It is obvious to me that the insult of the sacred place was intentional and conscious, they knew that their act would cause the suffering of believers. The non -unity of this action suggests that people deliberately chose the path of destruction of Christianity for themselves. ”
Lawyers explain: the third psychological and psychiatric examination, appointed by the investigator, was the main evidence of the guilt of their clients, after the two previous ones did not find either in the actions of the accused or in the text of the song “The Virgin, Putin of the run”, nor in the video clip of signs of inter-religious growth.
“We will appeal this third examination in court, it is absolutely custom -made,” says lawyer Nikolai Polozov. “She is very successful for the court, these are ready -made theses for writing a sentence.”
According to lawyers, the court in the case of Pussy Riot should begin in September. What will be its outcome, today no one takes to predict. The defenders say that, according to Dobroototov, we are talking about 2-3 years of imprisonment, but everything will depend on the political situation in the country.
By the way, as the French colleagues told The New Times, on June 1, during the dinner of Putin with France President Francois Holland, somewhere between hot and dessert, Holland asked the Russian president a question about the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. They say Putin did not answer.