Boris Vishnevsky: "Ministry of Repression"

“The St. Petersburg events of the last week - after mass detentions on the Marse Field on June 12 - clearly show two circumstances: the Ministry of Repression was created and there is no more,” writes the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the blog on the website of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

"The police, the prosecutor’s office, the court is nothing more than different departments of the reference Ministry.

There is no more reason to call the police and the prosecutor's office "law enforcement agencies". They are turned into a guard: they are not protected, but a regime. They defend not citizens from the arbitrariness of power, but power from citizens. The law does not apply to: all the attempts of the repressed to appeal to his norms with a grin are rejected by the Department of the Ministry of Spanning. "

"The most important element of the preservation of the system created under Putin is the current court. For the most part (the author’s personal experience is an illustration) - imminent and unfair, and having a very distant attitude towards the law. And therefore - one of the Department of the Ministry of Spanning.

The trial, taking the side of power at most of its conflicts with citizens. Having readily believed any evidence presented by the police, and "critical" to evidence in favor of protesting citizens. And making a flagrant unlawful decisions with complete confidence in his impunity.

If the court is normal and obeyed only by the law, any lawlessness of other “branches of power”, executive and legislative, as well as law enforcement agencies, is corrected. Because any of these lawlessness in such a court can be canceled. And those who create lawlessness know this.

And when they know the opposite - that any lawlessness (especially perfect with disloyal citizens who do not suffer from a loyal way of thoughts) will get away with it - they create it further with a vengeance.

"Unpret the ball" must start from here. Not from calls to plant corrupt officials (in such a court they will come out dry out of the water, even if they get into it), but with the requirement to change the judicial system.

Several months of work in the country of courts, subordinate only to the law - and the Ministry of Repression will fall apart, and the Putin system of "capitalism for friends and acquaintances" will crack at all seams. And the law will finally be one for all, and will be higher than any government.

These are not groundless fantasies: this is how they live in normal countries. Which Russia must become. "