Swamp and forgotten

Report from the Zamoskvoretsky court, where the second "swamp process" is coming

Defendants “Cases of four”: Alexey Gaskarov, Ilya Gushchin, Elena Kokhtareva, Alexander Margolin /Photo: OTD-Info

An iron barriers are exhibited near the court building, you can only approach through a narrow passage, guarded by a riot police and a squad - both check the bags of all passers -by. A police bus is hiding on the side of the building - just in case. However, the process in the “case of four”-Alexander Margolin, Ilya Gushchina, Alexei Gaskarov and Elena Kokhtareva-people come very little to the people-about fifteen people: relatives of the defendants, a couple of journalists, two more of those interested in: a female retired, who suddenly loudly announces that he knows about everything that is happening on the sidelines of the Party-Parnas, and a non-young man, and a non-young man, and a non-young man. calling himself "indifferent." Both, however, are discussing the television series in anticipation of the beginning of the meeting.
In the corridor, the defendant of “business of four” appears - Elena Kokhtareva, who is under the subscription about the not to leave, is all in blue.
“The Los Angeles District Court was shown in the series-this is the beauty there, not like it ...-the conversation of pensioners about the overseas court smoothly moves to the eternal topic: to whom to live well in Rus'. “It’s completely impossible to live in Perm.”
Kokhtareva is interested in: “Is it bad for them (Perm)? Let them go to rallies, express dissatisfaction! "
Kokhtareva herself, according to her, does not go to rallies. “I am categorically against democratic values, I am for traditional values,” she shares with the New Times correspondent. - When I went to Bolotnaya, I was unhappy with domestic policy: a national question, housing and communal services, our army ... ”
Finally, a convoy appears in the corridor: they lead the defendants. "Look-it seems to me or are they all some pale?" - asks Olga Gushchina, the mother of Ilya Gushchina, her second son Cyril, standing next to her. “Well, Ilya is not pink, of course, ordinary - he was always pale, he did not like to leave the house,” he answers. "

"On Bolotnaya, different slogans were against the president:" Putin, skis, Magadan "

"" Get up for everyone! " -The judge Natalya Susina, a middle-aged brunette with an indifferent face. As a middle-class teacher, Susina talks to them as a kindergarten teacher.
The meeting begins with the interrogation of witnesses. The first to call Dmitry Panko - a man with biceps covered with tattoos. He flooding the sunglasses on the back of the head and appears: "Master of installation of air conditioners." Of the defendants, he learn only Alexei Gaskarov.
“In general, I know Gaskarov since February 26, 2012, then he provoked a fight ...” - begins the witness. The judge interrupts: "We are talking here about May 6 actually." The air conditioners' installation master reports that he came to that action in order to conduct a survey of opposition people for personal interest, although he himself supports power in the country. “Near the shkor cinema, stones flew, bottles, they shot the helmets from law enforcement officers ... I climbed into a tree to see everything.”
“Monkey,” Ilya Gushchina’s mother quietly remarks.
Problems of memory
Witness Panko continues that Gaskarov was in Bolotnaya Square with “his group” in 5-6 people, to whom he gave instructions - it was he, a witness, understood by his “guiding” gestures.
“This is a little there, behind the bridge,” the witness begins to get confused, where he saw Gaskarov and where there was a police cordon. Gaskarov demands: show on the map if you do not remember the names of the streets.
“I had a child born during this time, I was not up to swamp,” the witness explains his forgetfulness after studying the map.
“In Bolotnaya, different slogans were against the president:“ Putin, skis, Magadan, ”says Panko. "Does the witness know who was the president of the Russian Federation at that time?" - Ilya Gushchin asks from the cage. The hall explodes with laughter. “They caught the silence,” the bailiff is menacingly cycle.

At meetings, Elena Kokhtareva prefers to remain silent. Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, May 14, 2014 /Photo: Anton Novododkin /ITAR-TASS

The defendant Kokhtareva does not participate in the discussion: she eats a chocolate bar, which she shares with her lawyer Dmitry Akimov. He also does not ask questions and reads the “Ads” section in the newspaper.
The next witness is Alexander Mordashov, a policeman. He serves a large stomach and himself to the step of the stands, looks around the defendants: "In principle, no one is familiar to me."
The last witness for today is Dmitry Mamlenov, an electronics engineer of the operational regiment of the police. He also replies to the judge’s questions that he does not know any of the defendants. But for some reason, the prosecutor Natalia Kostyuk is not enough, she asks: "Did Gaskarova see?" “I saw a similar one on May 6, and on shares on the Triumphal Square, and on Manezhnaya,” an electronic engineer lends itself to the prosecutor.
After the question, Gushchin, whether he did not accidentally see him, he bows his head, holds on to whiskey and extends after a few seconds: “Well, I saw it, yes.”

"Starry to live"

During the break, Elena Kokhtareva leaves the stuffy hall.
“I have brains in Ukraine now, I can’t think about anything,” she admits The New Times. “If we do not enter the troops into Ukraine, if there are no FSB, GRU, I don’t know what - we will get a fascist state at the side.”
The defendants have other problems: “Give me a bathtub curtain,” Alexander Margolin whispers to parents from the cage. Moms Ilya Gushchina and Alexei Gaskarov are discussing fans prices who want to transfer their sons to prison. Kokhtareva continues: "Those who go with me on the case are different guys: one nationalist, the other liberal, the third older ... - I am normally treated, we are all very scared to live."
What is Kokhtareva afraid of? Theoretically, she can change the measure of restraint, perhaps she is afraid of prison.
Margolin, Gushchin and Gaskarov, it seems, are no longer afraid of anything.
It is just important for them to remember them. As well as about Kosenko. And about those who have already been convicted of the “swamp business” and who are waiting for an appeal in Moscow prisons.