Stone on a stone

They thought it would be a light walk, but it turned out - a battle of Stalingrad! I do not mean the Wehrmacht and the main headquarters of Hitler, but the Kremlin and the Investigative Committee, where for some reason they decided that the trial of Nadezhda Savchenko should be easy and "instructive". Everything turned out the other way around: the Kremlin earned such a “headache” that he could not even imagine. Despite the fact that, in my opinion, the defense proved the complete non -involvement of the hope of the murder of VGTRK journalists, as well as the fact of its abduction in Ukraine by separatists from the DPR, the Russian court continues to keep the Ukrainian servant in dungeons. Even an examination of video shooting of the abduction of Savchenko, confirming the time of day, is not evidence for this court! According to the chronology of events, Savchenko was captured significantly earlier than the moment when the shelling occurred, from which Russian journalists died. The court in Donetsk, despite this, is trying to prove that the sun rises in the West, and not in the East. Presenting white black for him for a long time is no longer a problem.

In this regard, I recall the Soviet court, my personal "criminal case" on charges of anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda. The "most humane court in the world" decided that I was engaged in anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda, although I did not find a single witness, except for the bride and parents, who, even under the Draconian Soviet laws, could not act on this charges! Moreover, the manuscript I wrote was a pronounced anti -communist character, but not anti -Soviet, and this was confirmed by a literary examination! Despite this, the court decided as the KGB investigative group predetermined him. It was not possible to fight with Soviet justice then: the court counted me 4 years of camps and 2 years of exile, and the KGB investigative brigade received rewards and awards. The consequences turned out to be different for everyone: after the “full term” I was put out of the USSR, and the judge who passed me the sentence died of a heart attack a year after the collapse of the country. She was removed from work, and the prospect of initiating a criminal case loomed in front of her.

You can deceive once, you can - two, but no one can deceive endlessly

Someone asked Putin on Valdai: Vladimir Vladimirovich, do you consider yourself a “pigeon” or “hawk”? To which he replied: "I am a dove, but with steel wings." For some reason, it seems to me: Putin is neither one nor the other! Vladimir Vladimirovich is rather a woodpecker who took the reinforced concrete pillar on the tree and tries to stop it. All the Kremlin he started in the foreign policy arena are solid failure “projects” and operations that have no prospects for successful implementation. And the capture of the Crimea, and the Novorossiya plan, and the military adventure in Syria, and the arrest of Nadezhda Savchenko - from the very beginning it was clear how this would end. It turned out to be incomprehensible only to the Russian people. You can refuse everything, from everywhere to leave under a blessed pretext, when the sanctions of the West take their action, but the reputation cannot be corrected. Reputation is like a paper: if you remember - it will no longer be ideal, no matter how you go. This in the Kremlin, too, is obviously not understanding. Trust in Putin as a reliable partner evaporated forever. Everything that the Russian president says today, the West passes through the prism of doubt.

Even if the court in Rostov justifies Nadezhda Savchenko, even if Russian troops leave the Donbass, even if Moscow announces a new referendum in the Crimea (what is poorly believed), then the trust in the current government cannot be returned in Russia. So the West also belonged to the first president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev - with suspicion and caution, despite "perestroika and publicity" until the USSR fell apart. You can deceive once, you can - two, but no one can deceive endlessly.

German Obukhov - coordinator of the International Antiputine Coalition "Stop Fascism in Russia!"