The broken time

The case of the "Pokemon catcher" Ruslan Sokolovsky turned into the battle of two armies. On one edge of the field is the Russian political system, which is guarding the interests of the Russian Orthodox Church. The largest Russian religious organization had one interest in the case: she does not want her to laugh at her with impunity. The state supports it in this. Why? This secret was revealed in a recent interview with the former Orthodox Banker Putin Sergey Pugachev. According to him, “Vladimir Putin is an absolutely pragmatic person. Let's just say that is extremely uneducated from the religious point of view, he doesn’t know anything about it, he doesn’t understand anything about it ... He once said that“ of course, the Russian Orthodox Church will be stronger than any “united Russia”.

The Russian Orthodox Church has a lot of wishes, but, it seems, the most important thing is to "protect from the raids." Here is the whole judicial system and protects as he can. However, the zeal of prosecutorial and judicial has a limiter - political expediency. And it is determined by the presidential administration. It is she who decides to whom and how much will be measured in a politically significant case.

And in this situation, the AP soberly appreciated the power of another army collected under the banners of the 21-year-old provincial blogger Ruslan Saibabtalov (operating under the pseudonym Ruslan Sokolovsky). 300 thousand subscribers of his channel in YouTube, two million views of the video with patching Pokemon in the Yekaterinburg temple, 75 thousand subscribers of the page on VKontakte. This, of course, is not the level of a star of all -Russian scale, but there are a lot for the young provincial. A young man with a difficult fate, Self-Made Man of the poor with an old woman-mother in their arms (not some metropolitan avant-garde artists from Pussy Riot)-sympathy for him is popularly provided. Witnesses from Wednesdays, including those related to church structures, who began to say that they did not experience any “insults”, went to court. Among them was the mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, the owner of the whole museum of icons.

But the main thing in this story is the core of the audience of the video blogger. These are crowds of young people who read Richard Dokins and his domestic popularizers; Radical atheists who have no brakes in their heads yet. Planting their most famous like -minded person for three and a half years would mean imposing large problems. At the level of regional prosecutors and the bishops-monarchists offended to the depths of the soul, they do not understand this, and in Moscow they understood immediately. Therefore, the public reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to this case was emphasized. Puffers and dragged offended only by lawyers of the Yekaterinburg diocese - including in the sacred dignity.

In modern Russia, political battles do not take place in elections, but in social networks. The reactions of bloggers from the Loma list (public opinion leaders), the volume of the audience, the duration of the discussion of topics is all this is monitored by numerous monitoring services. The results lie on the table of officials.

Sokolovsky won the battle on the Internet. General sympathy (even the chief editor of the non -cummary publication “satellite and pogrom”), a long campaign with instructions for obvious absurdity of the case, numerous petitions of Russian and foreign organizations and private individuals ... The question arose - how to get out of this situation, preserving the face and securing a small profit arose.

Sokolovsky did not plead guilty, but he apologized professionally offended by believers. In the last word, he carefully divided his disagreement with accusations in heaps, the recognition that he had not previously taken into account the feelings of believers at all, and after three and a half months in a pre -trial detention center, he saw a pre -trial detention center for this part, and a promise to tie for the time with video blogging in favor of the controlled authorities (albeit in the person of Evgeny Roizman) of social projects. The conditional period formally corresponded to such a semi -backed speech.

What conclusions could society extract from this story? Obviously, the massive defense campaigns in some cases give the result - bloggers Anton Nosik and Ruslan Sokolovsky at large, and the Imam who ignored the Internet, Mahmud Velitov for several much less criminal words,was sent for three years. Perhaps he hoped to "agree quietly." The same fate will probably be comprehended by Jehovah's witnesses , who have not managed to establish communication with Russian society.

Meanwhile, the boys who read the same dokins and are sure that with the “verunas” (as they often call believers) you can joke with impunity, or even insult them, as “free people in a free country” do, received a lesson. Even in modern European society, their rhetoric would be for the most part unacceptable - although, of course, it is not indifferent. As for Russia, they will have to find out that it is not free, and religious organizations have arguments more serious than clicks on the Internet. Among them, for example, well -working legal services and controlled experts. It is they who largely draw up the concepts that it is impossible and what can be done in modern Russia.

Of course, in the future for the Russian Orthodox Church, this is an absolutely losing strategy. The number of its active opponents in Russia, especially among young people, multiplies before our eyes. However, for an individual citizen who imagined that the theme of religion in the life of a modern person has been exhausted, a clash with its living media may still end not virtual, but real troubles. And you have to be prepared for them.