The story continues to develop with the tragic death of our guy, Alexander Dolmatov, in Holland. Since the morning of January 29, Alexander’s friend Dmitry Nechaev has been there. With him is human rights activist Oksana Chelysheva. The purpose of Dmitry’s trip is to pick up the body, bring it to his homeland, where he will be buried, as Sasha bequeathed in his suicide note.
Meanwhile, there were signs that the release of the body was being delayed . If at first the Dutch side talked about releasing the body in 1-2 weeks, then over time the period increased. Now we are talking about 6-8 weeks. Two months! At the same time, they say that the Dutch are unctuously polite and helpful. They help. They look into your eyes. Fear the Danaans who bring gifts....
It is clear that they got into a very unpleasant situation and that they need to wash themselves off. It's no joke, the reputation of almost the most democratic country in the world has been shaken. Look, even their queen Beatrix was kicked out for being too talkative. Who doesn’t know, in Singapore, she was fed up with questions about Dolmatov and she was forced to admit that, yes, she knew about her mother’s letter and everything else. She allowed herself to be drawn into a scandal. Few people believe that she left because of Dolmatov, but I believe. There are no such coincidences.
Well, the fact that she's a whole queen doesn't mean much. Apparently, their bourgeois revolution was very successful in its time. The Queen is a completely nominal figure. Like our State Duma deputy. Some Sidyakin. If she screws up (and she screwed up), the real political power will remove it in no time. And they removed it. Now there will be a prince.
And our Russian Foreign Ministry is slowing down as always. They are generally extremely clumsy there. I first encountered them in 1999 at the Russian consulate in Simferopol. Then the National Bolsheviks were in the pre-trial detention center there. So it didn’t even occur to the consul to visit his compatriots in prison. Cursing, he reluctantly went only after Alexander Lyubimov’s television broadcast.
Over the past almost 15 years, little has changed. Even billionaire Polonsky didn’t bother to come to the scorpion-infested Cambodian prison until a month later. I don’t like Polonsky, but he’s a Russian citizen! So we have to run and help him, damn it. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn’t catch mice.
In the situation with Dolmatov, the Foreign Ministry is again criminally slow. It is necessary to put pressure on the Dutch side, intensify the investigation of the tragedy, help them, in the end, and speed up the release of the body. Otherwise, Mr. Lavrov, we will put pressure on you ourselves.