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Belykh has compiled a guide for those coming to the “Navalny trial”
Governor Nikita Belykh will not come to the trial in the Kirovles case, but he has compiled a “memo” guide for city guests.
“On Wednesday, April 17, the trial in the Kirovles case will begin. Representatives of a number of Russian and foreign media, representatives of public organizations, experts, etc. are coming to Kirov these days. Navalny’s supporters and opponents are submitting applications for public actions. And writer Boris Akunin, one of my favorite authors, wrote in his LiveJournal that “at the time of the trial, Kirov will become the most relevant place in the Russian Federation,” Belykh wrote in his blog on LiveJournal .
Belykh himself will be on a business trip in Moscow on April 17-18. According to him, the working trip was planned long before the announcement of the start time of the process. Belykh noted that he feels “responsible for how numerous guests will see our city.”
"Even if the main purpose of the visit is far from getting to know Kirov, its history and culture. But nevertheless, I am sure that representatives of the media and public activists will still want to get to know the territory better, assess the socio-political situation, especially since it often turns out to be in the spotlight, including at the federal level,” Belykh wrote.
The Kirov governor advised guests to look not only at the historical building of the Lenin Court, where Navalny will be tried, but also at the new building of the Puppet Theater next door, “one of the many long-term construction projects that our team managed to complete,” at the restored Vitberg House, and the art museum named after the brothers Vasnetsov.
“I think you should definitely visit the territory of the Trifonov Monastery - a pearl of Vyatka culture and architecture. You can visit the Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum - the house where he lived in exile in Vyatka. I also recommend taking a walk along the embankment. In general, there are many interesting places in Kirov,” — Belykh wrote.
“In general, despite the reason that brought so many guests to Kirov, I hope that the majority will have a favorable impression of the region,” sums up the Kirov governor.
According to investigators, Alexei Navalny, a member of the opposition Coordination Council, blogger, author of the RosPil and RosZhKH projects, organized the theft of timber in 2009, when he was an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region. Together with the director of Vyatka Forestry Company LLC, Pyotr Ofitserov , and the general director of KOGUP Kirovles, Vyacheslav Opalev, he stole 10 thousand cubic meters of forest products from May to September 2009, the Investigative Committee says. As a result, the Kirov region was missing more than 16 million rubles from the budget.
Navalny was accused of organizing a large embezzlement of someone else's property (Article 33, Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Ofitserov - of complicity (Article 33, Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Opalev admitted guilt and decided to make a deal with the investigation, so his criminal case was investigated separately. As a result, the court found the general director of Kirovles guilty. The Leninsky District Court of Kirov will begin to consider the merits of the criminal case against Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov for the theft of property from the Kirovles enterprise on April 17.