“Do you know that in the prisons of those countries that accuse Russia, how many people die there, in prisons? A very large number! Here the United States initiated the "Magnitsky list". Do you know that there is no death penalty in Russia? Do you know this? And in the USA there is. And women are also executed there,” Putin said in an interview with Russia Today.
It is strange that he did not add the sacramental: "And you have blacks being lynched."
Until now, it seemed to me that the main concern of a citizen who holds the position of President of Russia is Russia. About America, let the head of the American president hurt. As a child, I also cut out notes from the Soviet newspapers “Freedom to Leonard Peltier” and “Freedom to Angela Davis”, but I knew who they were and why I, a young pioneer, should worry about them. I experienced injustice, and it had a name and a face. Like Sergei Magnitsky.
Sergei Magnitsky was not sentenced to death, he was not sentenced at all, like many other Russian citizens who die every year and every month in prisons, and no one even counts the crippled. As for where and how women are executed, there is no need to go to America for examples, it is enough to recall Vera Trifonova, who died in prison.
Putin also remembered Pussy Riot: he refused to comment on the verdict of the Khamovniki court to the members of the punk group, but commented on the action of the Voina art group in the Biological Museum, in which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova took part. “/…/ They had a group sex session in a public place. This, as they say, is their business, people have the right to do whatever they want, if it does not violate the law, but in a public place, it seems to me that even then the attention of the authorities should have been drawn to this / ... / Some of the lovers say that group sex is better than individual sex, because here, just like in any collective work, you can screw up. „
Everyone was so led to sex that there is a suspicion of an epidemic of sperm intoxication in power structures
” A bearded joke, of course, one could come up with something new. Moreover, it is somehow strange that the national leader perceives the team exclusively in the context of "you can screw up." But if he stopped there, it could still be passed off as cute eccentricities of a person who will turn 60 in a month. However, Ostap was carried away.
Asked if the Pussy Riot girls could count on parole, Putin said: “I don’t even know if their lawyers went to a higher authority or not. I just don't follow it. But if a higher authority considers it, it has the right to make any decision.”
Firstly, the court cannot make "any decisions" - it is obliged to act according to the law, which does not tolerate double interpretations, that is, the decision may not be any, but the only one, that is, just. Secondly, Putin's speech is a direct pressure on our servile court, which hangs on his every word, and Putin knows this, and that's what he wanted. “Putin cannot be objective in this case,” lawyer Yuri Kostanov told me. The girls insulted Putin. However, two months before the incident in the temple, in December last year, the criminal article “Insult” was decriminalized. And they could not be brought on a criminal offense for insult. And I really wanted to. Putin, being a clear victim in this case (“Mother of God, drive Putin away”), must remain silent: he is an interested party in this case. Putin is a lawyer, he studied Roman law and should know: Nemo judex in propria causa. No one is a judge in his own case, ”says the experienced Kastanov.
But few paid attention to these inconsistencies. Everyone was so led to sex that there is a suspicion of an epidemic of sperm intoxication in power structures. First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said, for example, that our prosecutors are preparing a bill to ban sex bribes. The Prosecutor General's Office has already started working on amendments to the Criminal Code. I would like to find out as soon as possible how the convicted bribe-taker will pay a tenfold fine to the treasury and who he will be ... I insist that it should be at least a representative of the prosecutor's office. Then it will be easier to switch to the individual sex recommended by Putin. And that's good, that's right. This gives a faint hope that they will become less naturally.