Why did the Prosecutor General become so kind?

Answers the editor -in -chief of "Mediazones" Sergey Smirnov

On February 22 and 23, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation asked to abolish two resonant convictions at once - the political activist Ildar Dadin and a resident of the Kurgan region Evgenia Chudnovets (a video convicted of repost). The Supreme Court decided to free Dadin; The Miraculous case has not yet been revised. Medusa asked the editor -in -chief of the Mediazone Sergey Smirnov to explain what was happening - the supervisory authority did not make such initiatives for a long time.

Sergey Smirnov

Mediazone editor -in -chief

The General Prosecutor's Office suddenly became a certain mediator. One gets the feeling that she was instructed to leave the unpleasant - from a legal point of view - situations. On the other hand, she can do this on her own - the Prosecutor General’s Office does not have another role. I think that this is far from the last intervention of the department in controversial affairs. So she tries to raise her authority, show that at least she is capable of something; She has no other mechanisms at all.

In the case of Dadin, they found formal grounds for closing his case: they said that at the time of the sentence his administrative cases were not appealed. This is because Dadin himself, as a prisoner, his own business, trial, and the ECHR, no one needs: there is an obvious violation of constitutional rights here. It is clear that the strange article by which he was convicted appeared to reduce street activity in order to get out of the streets - in this sense it was a completely rational move. Now no one goes to the streets.

When even the United Russia party, it became clear that the Miraculous case was completely crazy, the Prosecutor General’s Office again spoke and began to resolve it. I think it was like this: Moscow sent to sites the installation on reposts - to strengthen the fight against extremism and sexual crimes on the Internet. In the regions, they began to work on the principle: the more things, the better; Here is a wonderful and fell under this statistics. It is already obvious to everyone that this is a crazy story, so why not play it back, not to say: "Well, they went too far." It is now interesting what conclusions the Prosecutor General’s Office draws in relation to the Kurgan prosecutor’s office, which demanded to sentenced her to five years in prison. By the way, the question arises here: is the “Genka” [General Prosecutor's Office] does not control the local prosecutor's office at all? They will be dealt with them already in a cupid.

Now Moscow, perhaps, will tell the regions to be more careful with reposts, perhaps there will be no new cases under the article on which Dadina was judged - this is also not bad. But at the same time, I don’t think that we can call what is happening now, a thaw - rather, it is a correction of the repressive nature of the legislation. The thaw would be if these articles were completely canceled, and even made public statements - we do not hear them.

And I also think that the highest judicial corps, which is responsible in Russia for cases sent to the ECHR, is very annoying that they get absolutely losing affairs. I do not exclude that on their part there was also a kind of wish: “Let's not fight back from the ECHR on loud matters and here we will decide them. What are you substituting us? Why should we suffer because of your idiotic statistics? " Again, the point here is not in politics, but that they do not want to look like idiots.

However, in political affairs, for example, related to Alexei Navalny, such turns cannot be expected. The judges understand that there are simple, household issues, but there are political, and they are solved differently. If the decisions on the miracle and on Dadin were made at the level of the highest judicial corps, security forces, then on cases of Navalny they are consistent with the presidential administration. This is a completely different principle and level of solutions.

Recorded Sasha Sulim