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Bastrykin's precedent
The main Russian investigator was probably framed. He has been fighting criminals of all stripes so skillfully for many years that they want to remove him by any means. They sent him not a prostitute, as usual, but a journalist to discredit him. In that world they were used to equating a prostitute with a journalist. The unfortunate Bastrykin did not feel any provocation, first he yelled at the journalist, then he took him into the forest, threatened him and finally wished him all the best, because it was he, Bastrykin, who, if anything, would investigate the case of this journalist. Like he’ll come to his house and rummage through his things and count his money. They want to show us that Bastrykin is a lawless man or a little tired.
But why has Bastrykin been silent for so many days? They call him, write letters, first “closed”, then “open”, and it’s as if he’s taken too much water in his mouth. Is he really collecting sanctions for new searches and arrests from those journalists who irritate him? The disintegration of power, that's what it's called. Even in Belarus under Lukashenko it is impossible to imagine this. There is some kind of bastard - a bug against the backdrop of AUTHORITY.
The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia threatened the journalist with violence. At least this is what another journalist, the respected and authoritative editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, claims.
Dmitry Muratov wrote an open letter to the chief investigator of Russia, who took Sergei Sokolov to the forest and there “educated” the deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta.
Bastrykin is so confident in his strength and despises journalists so much that he defiantly threatens and pointedly ignores journalists’ requests.
On Wednesday in Moscow, paddy wagons were filled with journalists who came to the Investigative Committee to express their indignation at Bastrykin over his educational methods, which are more common in the criminal world.
It has been a long time since there has been such a demonstrative and aggressive attack on the journalistic community. Indeed, it reminds me of the damned 90s. Then journalists could be beaten or killed at the behest of an insolent official. Then this official was also killed or humiliated. The oligarchs and generals of all stripes became especially impudent. The first became impudent from bad money, the second from bad power.
There was such a general Grachev. Until the end of his days I will remember the journalist Kholodov from Moskovsky Komsomolets, the heroic exploits of Pavel Grachev in the war will be erased by history, but that terrible bomb explosion in the editorial office will be preserved.
It seemed like those days were gone. The oligarchs are not becoming impudent now; they feel their precarious position. But now the generals are on fire.
Under President Medvedev, they were embarrassed to show their hatred of journalists, started a Twitter account and posted something optimistic. Apparently, there is no need to pretend anymore.
I have always said that the work of investigators and journalists is very similar. Both of them are called upon to establish the truth in the case and defend justice and punish evil. Only behind the investigators is the state, which protects them from dangerous bandits. But often representatives of law enforcement agencies lose their heads and begin to consider themselves a state.
On June 13, the results of an international study on the level of aggression in different countries were published.
In the ranking of the Peace Index of the Institute of Economics and Peace, at the end of 2011, Russia was in 153rd place out of 158 between Pakistan and North Korea, coming very close to Somalia, where a civil war has been going on for several decades.
Russian society is overly aggressive, people are like tense strings, at any moment they are ready to fight back, to grab someone by the throat.
Where does this aggression come from? What are its deep roots? Psychologists and sociologists talk about a national depression. People do not feel safe and understand that no one will protect them from injustice. First of all, the state will not protect, because the modern Russian state is made up of generals who take journalists into the forest and give orders to throw journalists into paddy wagons.