Ordinary regime

That's what really, really seriously, enraged me in the materials of my criminal case -this is the idea that the investigator sent to the center of E.

Reporting the subject of the investigation and speaking of the charges as proven, he puts in the appearance of the Center for the improper performance of his duties "in terms of preventive work with journalists to prevent, identify and suppress extremist activities, as well as monitoring the behavior of Prokopyeva S.V. at the place of her residence and work ."

A nervous laugh broke out in addition to my will. In response to the investigator’s questioning look, I read out this passage aloud and quarreled: “Seriously? ..” He replied without a shadow of a smile: “Seriously.” "And what should they do? Come to my house with a lecture, to tear?" The investigator began to explain the official phrases that the center for countering extremism has “their work methods”, but what they are, he does not know. His business is to report that the center did not work with such a burned extremist as I, which led to this criminal case.

The trial with the proceedings, but whether Putin was in fact usurped, did not take place in 2018 in 2018

“You yourself know, Svetlana Vladimirovna,” my investigator said in response to “what the hell”. He had in mind that in the materials of the criminal case there is a message (some kind of goodness) that last year the newspaper "Pskov Province" received a warning of Roskomnadzor for my text "No, this is not an election." It was a dispute with Leo Schlosberg on the eve of a single voting day on March 18. He believed that it was necessary to vote in the presidential election (for any worthy candidate), and I drowned for a strike of voters. The text began with the words unobtrusively accusing the current president of "usurpation of power."

The "public obviously false accusation of a person" engaged in the highest position in an extremist crime, if you did not know, since 2008 it has been equated with extremism and is prohibited in the media. The PG, unfortunately, missed the appeal terms, so the trial with the proceedings, and whether Putin was in fact usurped, did not take place in 2018.

The center E then conducted an audit, but it ended in nothing. The law on extremism, which is punishable not by the media (114-ФЗ "On Combating Extremist Activities"), but individuals (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) does not contain the same definition of extremist activity, so there was no way to hold the author accountable. Our lawmakers have not been finalized.

But my investigator did not delve into these nuances.

"So, the journalist Prokopyeva S.V. over a long period of time operates in Pskov, including constantly performed with its information materials on the 60 FM radio channel and the electronic periodical" Pskov News Tape ", as well as in other media."

In the presentation in the name of the acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Pskov region, the investigator proposes to take measures "to eliminate the noted deficiencies", and if there are grounds, to bring the perpetrators to strict disciplinary liability.

What does the main police officer answer him? Nothing in the spirit that “a journalist is not an extremist”, “Prokopyeva is not a Nazi, anarchist or a satanist to look after her” or that “your accusation has not yet been proven, there will be a court verdict - then we will discuss.” No, he humbly reports that a propaganda inhabitant of extremist manifestations, including among the journalistic community, are constantly "conducting propaganda."

In fact, the center of E recognized the incomplete. Yes, according to the job description, they had to make sure that I would never write my column about the repressive state. In the official language, this is called "elimination of the causes and conditions that contribute to the implementation of extremist activity." And also: "Preventive, including educational, propaganda measures."

If the journalist criticizes power, he must be educated. And then this is some wrong journalist. Extremist, in a word.

Ordinary regimes themselves are in a hurry to fix everything that does not fit in the official-acceptable picture of the world

This "educational" function of law enforcement agencies (not by themselves, of course, invented by themselves), and enraged me. Although, too, the news is to me - it’s no secret for a long time that ridiculous criminal cases and absurd persecution are nothing more than "educational, propaganda measure." Only I would not call this upbringing. This is training - the impact through pain on the simplest reflexes. The real term for participating in the rally or blocking of accounts for Navalny’s transfer is better than the electric shock explains that it is good, from the point of view of the owner of the power resource, but what is bad.

It was not that the conjecture was documented, but the fact that ordinary performers accept this as their holy duty. The ominous shadow of the FSB behind your back is not needed. Already not needed (or not always needed) a call from the Kremlin. Ordinary regimes themselves are in a hurry to fix everything that does not fit into the official-acceptable picture of the world. Any manifestation of free will and thoughts is persecuted according to the law that turned up by the arm.

Therefore, the "memorial" in Perm receives a fine for unauthorized cutting of the forest - when they clear the abandoned cemetery of repressed Lithuanians and Poles.

Therefore, the shaman Alexander GAVEVSHEV was forcibly returned to Yakutsk to a criminal case and forced psychiatry-when he goes to Moscow to expel the Putin demon.

Therefore, lawyer Mikhail Benyash receives an accusatory criminal sentence for “biting the police” - when he is going to protect activists at rallies of protest.

Therefore, under house arrest in the framework of the criminal case, there is 26-year-old Julia Tsvetkova-when it puts a children's performance about gender problems.

It comes to the ridiculous - in the Leningrad region, the authorities dismantled the playground , which was built by the residents themselves. Because they were not built on the project. And they did not agree.

Such "preventive, including educational, propaganda measures" around only multiply. And, I suspect, the confidence of the "educators" is also growing in its correctness.

But you know what? They are impostors. We must not forget that they have no right - neither written nor moral - to teach us to "love the homeland." These people in uniform have long forgotten about their true purpose. And of course, it is useless for them to explain what democracy is, why honest elections are needed, what is the value of competition and freedom of speech. We can’t re -educate them. Now in our power only to preserve common sense and our own picture of the world. But this is not a few in our latitudes in our latitudes.

Svetlana Prokopyeva - journalist

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