Lefortovo

The Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh answered the questions of The New Times*

Your arrest is an event of a federal or regional scale (in the sense, who “becomes you”)?

Federal.

Do you think that if you stayed in opposition policy, would be more reliably protected from the attack of the system? Loyalty, as it turns out, is bad protection?

This is not about politics.

Who can become the new governor of the Kirov region?

I myself want to stay.

Do you have an understanding of the logic of intra -volume repressions? Who can become the next victim?

There is no logic.

Did you have the opportunity to get acquainted with what your friends and colleagues say and write about what happened and write?

Unfortunately, no - complete isolation.

Prophetic media write about the arrest of “one of the opposition leaders”? Can you comment?

I am not the leader of the opposition, I am a government official elected by the governor of the Kirov region.

One of these media, the weekly Russian News, suspected you of close ties with Latvia, where NATO forces are located. Allegedly, you store your money in Latvian banks, and visit there too often, and in the Latvian embassy in Moscow there is almost your own person. Do not be afraid that you will be declared a spy?

If the absurdity continues, then even this can be expected.

* To questions regarding the essence of the accusations incriminated by the investigation, the whites did not answer for obvious reasons.