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“I told my brother:“ Hold on. For your wife and children - do not worry "
On January 15, 10 OMON fighters in masks and four investigators broke into the office of the Foundation for Combating Corruption (FBK). They did not allow employees to call lawyers, seized phones, laptops from them and made accounting. In the Investigative Committee, the next “mask shows” was explained by checking the information about the illegal consumption of donations to the work of the FBK, although the search warrant said that investigators came in the case of the painting “bad and good person”. While there was a search, the founder of the fund, Alexei Navalny, the investigators forcibly took away for the next interrogation.
** The day before, the court returned the defense of Navalny to extend house arrest, indicating that it would be considered together with the appeal for the verdict in the case of Yves Rocher. At the same time, the court has already rejected the complaints of the FSIN five times about violating the conditions of house arrest by allocation, for the last time - January 14. And two days before, on the 12th, the defense appealed the verdict to the brothers Navalny, on the same day the court issued the motivating part of the sentence. In addition, on January 7, the European Court of Human Rights, in response to a complaint to the defense of the opposition, appealed to the Russian government with questions about maintaining a preventive measure to Alexei Navalny after the sentence, violation of the right to freedom of expression, receipt and dissemination of information. Another question concerned the political motivation of the case "Yves Rocher." The government should give answers until February 13.
On the eve of the search for The New Times, I met with Alexei Navalny in the office of FBK
You are officially under house arrest, but we are now in your office, and no one is going to put you under house arrest. Please explain what is happening? **
I leave home today. Some khanuriki with a camera run up to me, either with NTV, or from somewhere nearby. And the FSINESS and some operatives run behind me at the same time: “Alexey, you violate house arrest, here is a certificate!” I tell them: "If I violate, complain about me in court." "And we warn you." Investigative Committee, Police - all of them believe that I am under house arrest. And I, being law -abiding, do not think so. Because house arrest is impossible in relation to the person who has been sentenced. The same, by the way, is confirmed by the Zamoskvoretsky court: the FSIN sent the fifth complaint against me there, but the court refused to consider it for the fifth time. There is no way to consider the application, says the court. The judge pronounced the verdict
* * On December 30, Oleg, the brother of Alexei Navalny, was sentenced in the Yves Rocher case to 3.5 years in a general regime colony, and Alexey himself was convicted for 3.5 years conditionally, but left under house arrest. - Goodbye (see comments on page 17).
But a much more frank situation with my brother, who was put in a pre -trial detention center without a sentence, without a piece of paper in general. It's just impossible! I was once detained and arrested for 15 days, the police brought me to the special receiver, and it turned out that they forgot to take a piece of paper from the judge about my arrest. And they rode back behind a piece of paper, and they drove me back! It is impossible to put a person without a sentence in a camera, but with Oleg they did just that.
On the morning of January 15, riot police and investigators, not allowing lawyers, began a 10-hour search for the FSIN employees all the time follow you, and recently the police detained you after an interview with the Echo of Moscow and for some reason took home. What was it? Yes, they themselves do not understand why they are doing this. And their bosses do not understand. In general, no one understands why they spend the night under my house. This is not the function of the FSIN at all, they are not operatives. They all laugh. And it happens even annoying: because they were sitting in several cars at my entrance on New Year's Eve, spent the night in them. I tell them: “What are you going to spend here? If I go out, what will you do? " They cannot detain me. Their entire function is that they meet me in the morning, show the certificate, say: "You violate!" I say “thank you” and move on. Just in case, they should be on duty at my entrance, so that when there is a disassembly in high areas, to say: "We took measures, we guarded, we did something." Now they even put the Gazelle at my house to make it more convenient to sleep in it. Several times after me we went to the office, went there, we allocated them a table with chairs, they sat down. Of course, I could not allow them. But what's the point? So that they are unhappy in the corridor? I communicate with everyone with pleasure - with cops, with the FSINCOV. This, in fact, is my favorite part of the work - communication with the cops and a story about the salary (head of Rosneft Igor) Sechin. An amazing thing-every time you understand how limited the information space is. Because it seems: well, among us these things are about salaries, etc. - Everyone should know. And each time, having talked like that, you realize - no, you need to agitate, agitate, agitate.
A minibus, on a clock on duty at the Navalny house, has become a place for an overnight stay for employees of the FSIN
How do these conversations act on the security forces? Well, they see: in the situation with me there are some oddities and lawlessness. Therefore, they say: "Not a damn thing for themselves, what is happening." At the same time, they simply do their work, obey their bosses. Of course, this absurdity does not push them out somewhere there and rally. Well, probably sooner or later it will push.
What did you say to Oleg when the sentence was sentenced to him?
And what can be said in this situation? “Hold on. For your wife and children - do not worry. " I myself am in about the same situation and understand that it is the most worried. Family, relatives. And here, on the one hand, it seems to be ready for everything. But in fact, no one expected such a result - everyone was ready that they would put me. Such an option, as it turned out, was considered only by me, and all lawyers, on the contrary, said that this is absolutely impossible. But, apparently, Putin somehow guessed my secret fear and used it.
You are probably familiar with the statement of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: he does not consider Putin the enemy, since he did not touch his loved ones and freed him, letting his mother say goodbye. But with your relatives they act, to put it mildly, otherwise ...
My relatives are touched very much. Why - Putin should be asked about this. I don’t even know what is in the head of this person. So he decided to take revenge in this way. Probably, feeling himself as a psychologist - and he is, because in my situation it worked - Putin chooses options more unpleasant, more liair.
And how did it work, what has changed? Now I can walk along the street, receive a grand pleasure from the fact that I see people, that I just can walk. Well, yes, some service people are still running after me, but at least so ... all this is wonderful. But the main event about which all thoughts is the situation with Oleg, of course.
When the sentence was announced to Oleg, it seemed that you broke. This is really a very unpleasant thing. You plan your own life and are ready to sacrifice something. But you have no right to sacrifice something stranger for your struggle. My brother pays for all this. I'm not to blame, but I understand that he is sitting because of me.
Most of the FBK employees seized phones and laptops , but can you visit him in a pre -trial detention center? Only two dates per month are allowed to the brother. Theoretically, I can visit him. In practice-I think, firstly, the FSIN will not let me in. Secondly, even if I let it go, I'm not going to take the dates from Oleg’s wife.
Olga Mikhailova,
The lawyer of Alexei Navalny in the motivating part of the verdict in the Iv Rocher case the need for the maintenance of Alexei Navalny under house arrest is not justified. The verdict says: on the deadline of the conditional punishment, Navalny counted his house arrest from February 28 to December 30, 2014. At the same time, the court retained house arrest before the sentence entered into force what would happen after the consideration of the already submitted defense and accusation appeals, and this may be delayed for several months. We believe that from December 30 there is no legal grounds for the house arrest of Navalny. 
A lawyer of the court is obliged to apply the norms of the criminal procedure law, interpreting them systematically and revealing their constitutional and legal meaning. Home arrest is a mitigated analogue of detention. In accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure, if a person in custody receives a suspended sentence, he immediately gives free. I am convinced that the preservation of house arrest at a conditional term is unconstitutional. Photo: Mitya Aleshkovsky, Evgeny Feldman/New Gazeta, Artem Korotaev/ITAR-TASS