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Date
08/30/2012
Author
Вадим Востров
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Cops and eggs

An egg was thrown at State Duma deputy from “A Just Russia” (whatever the government), famous oppositionist Ilya Ponomarev, during an interview in Krasnoyarsk. This is just a typical minor provocation. Nothing interesting. This is what it looked like.

It was not for nothing that the police were renamed the police - people in civilian clothes professionally and quickly grabbed the villain and treated him like a secret agent: they began to carefully cover him with umbrellas from strangers. For what?

What article did the justice authorities find for this “secret agent”? Attention! "Violation of rules for the improvement of cities and other populated areas."

Remember, in Stalin’s times there was such a term “socially close”? It’s the same today: the lightest little article is found for socially close ones (even if it looks a little stupid). Now, if the same egg were thrown at a representative of the executive branch, then it would be a completely different matter.
For example:


1. In 2005, Roman Burlak threw an egg at Fursenko - he was charged with Article 319 of the Criminal Code (“Insulting a government official in the performance of official duties”) and given 10 days of arrest.


2. In 2010, another student threw an egg at the same Fursenko - he didn’t hit! But he was given 15 days of administrative arrest (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation “Petty hooliganism”).


And then law enforcement officers wonder why they are not respected and called cops? For double standards, fellow police officers, for double standards...