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Ольга Серебряная; Дмитрий Волчек
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Middle Ages in Ostashkov
In the Tver region, the court of Ostashkov sentenced the rural teacher and artist, the former director of the House of Culture, Ilya Farber, by seven years and one month of the colony of maximum regime on charges of bribe and abuse of official powers and obliged him to pay a fine of three million rubles. Observers talk about the anti -Semitic background of such a harsh sentence. "Can a person named Farber help the village for free?" - the state prosecutor asked in court. There is a collection of signatures under the appeal in defense of the convict, the Russian Jewish Congress collects funds for Farber and his family.
The court found Ilya Farber guilty that he received more than 400 thousand rubles for signing papers to receive repairs in the House of Culture, which was not completed at that time.
Farber himself does not admit his guilt, but confirmed the fact of receiving money from the director of a commercial enterprise, which should have compensated to the teacher his personal costs for repairs.
Earlier, Ilya Farber was already sentenced to eight years in the colony, but in November 2012 the Supreme Court of Russia sent the case to revise.
The atmosphere in which the verdict was sentenced is described in the editorial column "Vedomosti" :
And the accuser’s replica about the fact that a person with the name Farber cannot work for free, and the calculation of the amount of the bribe on the basis of crunch of bills at audio recordings (30 crunches - 150 thousand) look today not a separate piercing savagery, but are multiplied by parallels with a chipped dental enamel, quotes from the decrees of the Trullis Cathedral, theft of "all forest" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil Over the same wild episodes of high -profile criminal cases of recent years.
Recently, the sentences amazing imagination have become almost everyday life. The gap between politics and life narrows before our eyes. Two years ago, Farber was a drawing teacher - today he is a denunciator of the regime, and his work is resonant in the literal sense of the word: it is a resonance with what is happening on the country's scale.
I’m almost physically felt that not from the brain, not from the heart, but from somewhere in the darkest basements of the body rises, growing, a dense lump of hatred. I am not very proud of me at such moments, to put it mildly, myself. But I can’t do anything about it.
In former times, poems, music, alcohol, heart conversations, and love reliably helped this. And now? I don't even know. A monstrously humiliating sensation that sometimes happens in a dream when you feel that you are not able to move a single hand to drive a fly crawling in your face in a friendly manner.
Then - just two weeks ago! - And the truth was still believed that everything could be fine. Well, they cannot roll a person for eight years just like that. Well, not the Middle Ages, really with us?
The fact that no bribe was lying around there was completely obvious to everyone. The court was about anything, but not about a bribe. No evidence. Not a single material evidence. Nothing at all. Only the denunciation of Gorokhov in the FSB.
Gorokhov, who built the club and threw it unfinished, and from which Ilya allegedly exhausted the bribe, comes to court at Hammer. Farber, with a salary of 3700 rubles, sits in a cage.
All this was some kind of stupid circus. Attraction "Zapodykalier". The mind refused to understand why this person was kept in prison for two years. Why did you put him in a cage? Why do you pinch his hands with iron? Why do you even drive him to the toilet under a machine? What is this about here at all? After all, this is all nonsense of the blue mare! Your performance is idiotic, gentlemen.
Then it was still believed that all this was not for real. Adults cannot play this idiocy, in which even a child sees falsity per kilometer.
Can.
Seven years strictly and three million are a fine.
Middle Ages.
What motives the court was guided by, passing such a cruel sentence, no one is clear to anyone. The most common version is anti -Semitism. The Russian Jewish Congress, who expressed anxiety on the pages of Novaya Gazeta last December, has now limited himself to announcement of the fundraising for Ilya Farber and his family. The statement says:
Many have heard about the idealist Muscovite, who three years ago wanted to change the life of the deaf Tver village. This "campaign to the people" ended in tragically for him: despite the abolition of the sentence by the Supreme Court and a wide public campaign in its defense, Farber has been in the preliminary imprisonment chamber for two years. And now he will have long years in a maximum security colony.
We do not idealize I. Farber and do not put him as an example to others. But a sense of sympathy and compassion for this person - the representative of our people, who finds himself in a difficult life situation - obliges us to stretch out the hand of helping him and his family. The tradition of helping fellow tribesmen in trouble is strong among Jews. Let's help Farber and his family survive difficult times!
Almost all the comments on this statement on the website of the Russian Jewish Congress are indignant. The indignation is caused by a cautious wording "We do not idealize I. Farber and do not put it as an example to others." One of the brightest replicas was left by the user Yahoo Markver:
A shame for a huge staff of rivers, who did not interfere with the next "Dreyfus and Beilis case." Then all the progressive humanity rose, and now even the Jews of Russia hid. These Kobzons, Makarevichs, Guardzedeli and other Rezniki, bended by power, want to pay off the money of all Jews. Jews of the world? Demand the release of Ilya. Say your word in defense of the righteous Farber.
The second version is the special atrocities of the "people", because it is with the Narodniks that Ilya Farber is most often compared. Here is the replica of Alexei Roshchin :
And Farber is a pity, of course. They set up a man neither for the smile tobacco. But it seems that since the 19th century it should be clear that there is no need to "go to the people" !! The people, if necessary, will come. And to go to him, in his very den, and hoping for something there is stupid. Farber was still lucky that he was simply not killed by "grateful fellow villagers."
The third option, completely conspirological, came up with the journalist Yuri Vasiliev:
Farber is prepared for the production of "good king", no matter what it means. The most obvious: there will be the Supreme Court, they will be selected to the sewn - for where is 300,000 or how much is there, and where is seven years. And everyone is famous for state wisdom. Including the client himself.
Journalist Olga Romanova , Executive Director of the Rus Sitting Movement, has been following Farber’s business for two years. She was in the hall of the Ostashkovsky court when she was sentenced. She shared her impressions of the process with Radio Liberty.
- This is a completely medieval story. This is a story about Russia: it, on the one hand, is provincial, and on the other hand - global, there is everything at once. There is anti -Semitism, of course, there is a revenge of the FSB, but not so much to Farber, but on a completely different issue. The representative of the victims, Elena Fokina, was the head of education in the village of Gratskoye, on the first line of Seliger. There was trading in land near water. This trade can only go under the roof of the Tver FSB. Farber arrived in this village with small children, lived in a gym at school. Then he moved to the new head of the rural settlement of Valeeva, who also has her own children: a lonely woman, two boys. They began to live together. Initially, the blow was aimed at this young woman, the mother of two children, who did not trade plots along with the FSB. It was necessary to return that very Fokin, the head of the rural settlement. Farber was taken only because he was repairing a rural club. The blow was designed for a completely different person. But Farber did not take her, showed her character, and the character there is still. And I found a braid on a stone. Then another 17-year-old son Petya arrived, he was taken to the FSB and began to burn the cigarette butts on his hands. He began to write statements, fight, betray this story of publicity, and they simply brutally from this. I saw a fence that Ilya Farber and his children lived, this fence was written out by the word "Jews" - this was done by his neighbors, rural residents.
- History received a great resonance, the Russian Jewish Congress intervened. Is there any hope that the upper court under public pressure will revise this sentence?
- I really hope so. The Russian Jewish public intervened even more than it is now presented. There, of course, people are very outraged. Representatives of the intelligentsia write a lot. Director Pavel Bardin just wrote to me with a proposal to hold art actions, to make a short movie. I really liked the proposal to hold an action called "My Surname Farber." That is, such a common action when each person says: "My last name Farber." This is a reference to the fact that "the case against Navalny is a matter against me." The prosecutor said, and this is in our records that a person named Farber cannot be honest.
- How is the fundraising to help the family of Ilya Farber?
-The score on the Yandex-Koshelka is opened, there is also a personal account of Farber in Sberbank , and money is received. The Rus Sitting has a contract with Farber's lawyers. We have been engaged in this business for two years, it takes a lot of effort and means, because it is necessary to help the family. There are three children, two elderly retirees and two adoptive children of Farber. The family is supported by the eldest son Petya, he is 19 years old, and he does not have documents about graduation, because when this happened, Petya graduated from the 11th grade and he was not issued a document on graduation. Ilya Farber and his family lived in China for a long time. Petya turned out to be an excellent translator from Chinese, he has an excellent tangerine dialect. Therefore, Petya works as a translator from the Chinese in the Gus-Khrustalny Vladimir region and all the time from work is engaged in the courts. And now he contains a family for his earnings. Thanks to the entrepreneurs who also help.
The court found Ilya Farber guilty that he received more than 400 thousand rubles for signing papers to receive repairs in the House of Culture, which was not completed at that time.
Farber himself does not admit his guilt, but confirmed the fact of receiving money from the director of a commercial enterprise, which should have compensated to the teacher his personal costs for repairs.
Earlier, Ilya Farber was already sentenced to eight years in the colony, but in November 2012 the Supreme Court of Russia sent the case to revise.
The atmosphere in which the verdict was sentenced is described in the editorial column "Vedomosti" :
And the accuser’s replica about the fact that a person with the name Farber cannot work for free, and the calculation of the amount of the bribe on the basis of crunch of bills at audio recordings (30 crunches - 150 thousand) look today not a separate piercing savagery, but are multiplied by parallels with a chipped dental enamel, quotes from the decrees of the Trullis Cathedral, theft of "all forest" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil" and "all oil Over the same wild episodes of high -profile criminal cases of recent years.
Recently, the sentences amazing imagination have become almost everyday life. The gap between politics and life narrows before our eyes. Two years ago, Farber was a drawing teacher - today he is a denunciator of the regime, and his work is resonant in the literal sense of the word: it is a resonance with what is happening on the country's scale.
Ilya Farber with children
The verdict in the case of Ilya Farber made a gloomy impression on Russian bloggers: there were comparisons of the deadlines assigned to other people, conditional and real, and the corresponding sizes of bribes with seven years that Farber received, and 300 thousand rubles, which he allegedly exhausted from the contractor Gorokhov. The psychological state, in which there were a lot of many on August 1, was precisely described by the poet Lev Rubinstein :I’m almost physically felt that not from the brain, not from the heart, but from somewhere in the darkest basements of the body rises, growing, a dense lump of hatred. I am not very proud of me at such moments, to put it mildly, myself. But I can’t do anything about it.
In former times, poems, music, alcohol, heart conversations, and love reliably helped this. And now? I don't even know. A monstrously humiliating sensation that sometimes happens in a dream when you feel that you are not able to move a single hand to drive a fly crawling in your face in a friendly manner.
Journalist Arkady Babchenko , who came to the next meeting in the Farber case two weeks ago, placed Facebook by a photo of the postcard, which Ilya gave him then. In the inscription on the back, he thanks for the support and reports that he is doing well. Babchenko continues :The whole fence of his house was written by the word "Jews"
Then - just two weeks ago! - And the truth was still believed that everything could be fine. Well, they cannot roll a person for eight years just like that. Well, not the Middle Ages, really with us?
The fact that no bribe was lying around there was completely obvious to everyone. The court was about anything, but not about a bribe. No evidence. Not a single material evidence. Nothing at all. Only the denunciation of Gorokhov in the FSB.
Gorokhov, who built the club and threw it unfinished, and from which Ilya allegedly exhausted the bribe, comes to court at Hammer. Farber, with a salary of 3700 rubles, sits in a cage.
All this was some kind of stupid circus. Attraction "Zapodykalier". The mind refused to understand why this person was kept in prison for two years. Why did you put him in a cage? Why do you pinch his hands with iron? Why do you even drive him to the toilet under a machine? What is this about here at all? After all, this is all nonsense of the blue mare! Your performance is idiotic, gentlemen.
Then it was still believed that all this was not for real. Adults cannot play this idiocy, in which even a child sees falsity per kilometer.
Can.
Seven years strictly and three million are a fine.
Middle Ages.
What motives the court was guided by, passing such a cruel sentence, no one is clear to anyone. The most common version is anti -Semitism. The Russian Jewish Congress, who expressed anxiety on the pages of Novaya Gazeta last December, has now limited himself to announcement of the fundraising for Ilya Farber and his family. The statement says:
Many have heard about the idealist Muscovite, who three years ago wanted to change the life of the deaf Tver village. This "campaign to the people" ended in tragically for him: despite the abolition of the sentence by the Supreme Court and a wide public campaign in its defense, Farber has been in the preliminary imprisonment chamber for two years. And now he will have long years in a maximum security colony.
We do not idealize I. Farber and do not put him as an example to others. But a sense of sympathy and compassion for this person - the representative of our people, who finds himself in a difficult life situation - obliges us to stretch out the hand of helping him and his family. The tradition of helping fellow tribesmen in trouble is strong among Jews. Let's help Farber and his family survive difficult times!
Almost all the comments on this statement on the website of the Russian Jewish Congress are indignant. The indignation is caused by a cautious wording "We do not idealize I. Farber and do not put it as an example to others." One of the brightest replicas was left by the user Yahoo Markver:
A shame for a huge staff of rivers, who did not interfere with the next "Dreyfus and Beilis case." Then all the progressive humanity rose, and now even the Jews of Russia hid. These Kobzons, Makarevichs, Guardzedeli and other Rezniki, bended by power, want to pay off the money of all Jews. Jews of the world? Demand the release of Ilya. Say your word in defense of the righteous Farber.
The second version is the special atrocities of the "people", because it is with the Narodniks that Ilya Farber is most often compared. Here is the replica of Alexei Roshchin :
And Farber is a pity, of course. They set up a man neither for the smile tobacco. But it seems that since the 19th century it should be clear that there is no need to "go to the people" !! The people, if necessary, will come. And to go to him, in his very den, and hoping for something there is stupid. Farber was still lucky that he was simply not killed by "grateful fellow villagers."
The third option, completely conspirological, came up with the journalist Yuri Vasiliev:
Farber is prepared for the production of "good king", no matter what it means. The most obvious: there will be the Supreme Court, they will be selected to the sewn - for where is 300,000 or how much is there, and where is seven years. And everyone is famous for state wisdom. Including the client himself.
Journalist Olga Romanova , Executive Director of the Rus Sitting Movement, has been following Farber’s business for two years. She was in the hall of the Ostashkovsky court when she was sentenced. She shared her impressions of the process with Radio Liberty.
- This is a completely medieval story. This is a story about Russia: it, on the one hand, is provincial, and on the other hand - global, there is everything at once. There is anti -Semitism, of course, there is a revenge of the FSB, but not so much to Farber, but on a completely different issue. The representative of the victims, Elena Fokina, was the head of education in the village of Gratskoye, on the first line of Seliger. There was trading in land near water. This trade can only go under the roof of the Tver FSB. Farber arrived in this village with small children, lived in a gym at school. Then he moved to the new head of the rural settlement of Valeeva, who also has her own children: a lonely woman, two boys. They began to live together. Initially, the blow was aimed at this young woman, the mother of two children, who did not trade plots along with the FSB. It was necessary to return that very Fokin, the head of the rural settlement. Farber was taken only because he was repairing a rural club. The blow was designed for a completely different person. But Farber did not take her, showed her character, and the character there is still. And I found a braid on a stone. Then another 17-year-old son Petya arrived, he was taken to the FSB and began to burn the cigarette butts on his hands. He began to write statements, fight, betray this story of publicity, and they simply brutally from this. I saw a fence that Ilya Farber and his children lived, this fence was written out by the word "Jews" - this was done by his neighbors, rural residents.
Supporters of Ilya Farber in the courtroom
I was at one of the meetings, where there were witnesses, aunts, village residents. They arrived and began to tell the court what a bad farber, what an inextricable character was, what a complex person, and all sorts of nasty things that had nothing to do with the crime said. They said that he was arrogant, that he was painfully smart. And when the meeting ended, I went to these aunts: “Listen, do you understand that it is about depriving my father’s family for 8 years? This is a court, this is the fate of a person, real terms, difficult conditions. And when something happens, God forbid, you will come to me. And how will you come to me?” One aunt turns: "I have been looking for you for a long time, my son was planted by lawlessness - by drugs, please take my business." They have no such ligaments in their heads or in conscience that people live around, the same as they are.- History received a great resonance, the Russian Jewish Congress intervened. Is there any hope that the upper court under public pressure will revise this sentence?
- I really hope so. The Russian Jewish public intervened even more than it is now presented. There, of course, people are very outraged. Representatives of the intelligentsia write a lot. Director Pavel Bardin just wrote to me with a proposal to hold art actions, to make a short movie. I really liked the proposal to hold an action called "My Surname Farber." That is, such a common action when each person says: "My last name Farber." This is a reference to the fact that "the case against Navalny is a matter against me." The prosecutor said, and this is in our records that a person named Farber cannot be honest.
- How is the fundraising to help the family of Ilya Farber?
-The score on the Yandex-Koshelka is opened, there is also a personal account of Farber in Sberbank , and money is received. The Rus Sitting has a contract with Farber's lawyers. We have been engaged in this business for two years, it takes a lot of effort and means, because it is necessary to help the family. There are three children, two elderly retirees and two adoptive children of Farber. The family is supported by the eldest son Petya, he is 19 years old, and he does not have documents about graduation, because when this happened, Petya graduated from the 11th grade and he was not issued a document on graduation. Ilya Farber and his family lived in China for a long time. Petya turned out to be an excellent translator from Chinese, he has an excellent tangerine dialect. Therefore, Petya works as a translator from the Chinese in the Gus-Khrustalny Vladimir region and all the time from work is engaged in the courts. And now he contains a family for his earnings. Thanks to the entrepreneurs who also help.