On the flow

The outgoing ledge 2020 began approximately in November 2019 and, it seems, does not think to end. It looks like Covid-19 born in 2019: does not disappear, but mutates. It turned out like in the cycle Stephena King " Dark Tower", in which the figure "19" is every now and then - it imagines in the branches of trees, in the clouds, in fire, in songs ...

And I want to spend, no, to see this year in a special way. But the predictors promise that you should not rush to say goodbye. Anyone who did not manage to become infected with coronavirus in 2020 will very likely become infected with him in 2021. Recently, the head of the Pskov regional department of Rospotrebnadzor said that "in the Pskov region there is an unprecedentedly high incidence of coronaviral infection." According to him, "Pskov region is the second most disadvantage of the territory in the Russian Federation." But, judging by the tragic messages, other regions are not very far behind.

And as if it were no coincidence at the end of this crazy year on December 24, a certain corporal K. made a crazy shot from a 30-mm automatic gun of a combat landing vehicle (BMD-4). The shell hit the roof of the Pskov shopping center FJord Plaza . It is interesting that employees of the shopping center, including the Children's World department, where, allegedly, the training shell has been hit, they kept military secrets more diligently than the command of the Pskov garrison. Sellers assured that the alarm was academic, as well as the subsequent evacuation of visitors. And at this time, the military had already admitted that nothing of the kind - a shot (possibly two shots) was unplanned, "an error" occurred " when servicing equipment. The military reassured: it's okay - the shell was at the end.

It seems that the entire Russian state system in the current form is also at the end. And its leaders, like that 19-year-old corporal K., also do not really understand what is happening and how to manage all this. Therefore, "shells" fly in the most inappropriate places, like black swans.

In Pskov, no one hurt. But in the Severomorsk of the Murmansk region, in July, in intensive care with fractures of the jaw, temporal part and the back of the head, the Marine Corceress was hit by a fragmentation wound, being among the honored guests on the rostrum during the festive salute in honor of the Navy Day . And this is confirmed by the fact that harsh holidays in our latitudes can be more dangerous than harsh everyday life.

2020 was the year of growing absurd in all areas of our lives. He was full of loud trials with absurd plots. If all the "stitched" criminal and administrative cases are put on each other, then the stack will be the size of the building of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

The local historian, the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society, Yuri Dmitriev, is one of the researchers of the victims of mass political repressions in Sandormh and the Red Bor, thanks to public support, it seemed that it seemed that the security forces who seemed to be stubbornly forgotten to return the names of those who were tortured and killed during the years of large terror. Dmitrieva was justified according to ridiculous articles about the manufacture of pornography, depraved actions and storage of weapons. However, then the "law enforcement officers" took revenge . In September 2020, the Supreme Court of Karelia increased the term of Dmitriev from 3.5 to 13 years in the colony.

In the fall of 2018, shortly after the explosion at the UFSB in the Arkhangelsk region, the performance of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva at the Echo of Moscow in Pskov in the author’s program “Miner of Enlightenment” with an attempt to understand that he pushes young people in Russia into such actions in a criminal case and almost two years of prosecution . Svetlana managed to defend freedom thanks to public support. But the second Western District Military Court (the on -site meeting took place in Pskov) in July 2020 nevertheless found Svetlana Prokopieva guilty of justification of terrorism and fined it half a million rubles. In the list of existing extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring on December 28, 2020, it is still listed-under number 7332. About 20th criminal cases throughout the country were gained about 20. The same second Western District Court on October 15, 2020 sentenced the resident of Vologda Sergey Arbuzov to five years in a strict colony under the article on the justification of the justification terrorism on the Internet. The reason is the same: a statement about the explosion in the reception of the FSB in Arkhangelsk.

Few people also believe in the objectivity of the judge considering the “case of the Stateismman” (it is also a “wedding case”) in Kaliningrad. In December 2020, the closed process ended. Konstantin Antonets was sentenced to 12.5 years of strict regime, and his wife Antonina Zimin - to 13 years of general regime and a fine of 100 thousand rubles. According to investigators, the Latvian intelligence services recruited Antonin Zimin in 2012 during traveling abroad. In addition, the spouses seemed to reveal the personality of an FSB officer who was present at the wedding for foreign special services. So if you have a wedding, it is better not to photograph anyone just in case. Is it enough around secret and obvious FSB officers?

No less dangerous than the photo can be a video, for example, - musical clips. In 2020, the coordinator of the Arkhangelsk headquarters of Navalny Andrei Borovikov became accused in the case of the spread of pornography ("illegally distributed and publicly demonstrated pornographic materials" ). According to him, the reason for initiating the case was the video clip for the song of the Pussy of the German group Rammstein, which Borovikov placed on his VKontakte page six years ago - in January 2014. Borovikov threatened from 2 to 6 years in prison. As the character of Kafka exclaimed in the novel by Kafka K.: ”You are looking for a meaning, and create such nonsense that you won’t come up with. Yes, then the stones are resolved!” The stones may resume, but as for people ... Many are used to and are not indignant. On the contrary, the more absurd the accusation and sentence, the more obvious the power of power.

One of the high-profile events of the past summer in Pskov is the detention at the Pskov hotel "Riga" by the police of the former Belarusian IC investigator Andrei Ostapovich (he was going to officially cross the Russian-Latvian border). When the investigator voluntarily quit Minsk, he indicated in the report, because of which he considers it impossible to stay in the service: “For the knocked out eyes, torn heels and other parts of the body, for the rape of our girls, for the actions of a sexual nature in relation to men, for broken heads, broken bones of the skeleton, for children with broken jaws and with tied heads in the blood and for torture and for torture and The mockery in correctional institutions ... " Perhaps the Pskov police would give it to the Lukashenko regime, but the media managed to talk about this before Ostapovich came from neighboring Belarus. Ostapovich suddenly was released at night and taken to the border - not to return with the condition. A few days later he was already in Poland and asked for political asylum ...

Not only people fly to the West, but, possibly, radionuclides . In early June 2020, the iodine-131 was discovered in the air in Norway, and Cesius-134, Cesius-137, Cobalt-60 and Ruthenius-103-in the air in Sweden and Finland. Greenpeace suggested that atomic stations or icebreakers in the Murmansk region, located on the coast of the Barents Sea, could be a source. Three Chernobyl type reactors of the RBMK-1000 Leningrad NPP also came under suspicion. And already in December 2020, the uninterous forum deputies from the State Duma proposed recognizing the activities of Greenpis in Russia unwanted ... It is good that they officially did not propose to recognize the leakage of isotopes desirable.

2020 has already gone down in history as a year of “zeroing” yourself know who. After the "popular vote" in the Vologda region, a stump of the name of the head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Ella Pamfilova (ordinary stump with a silver urine and attached sign: "Stroke named after E. Pampilova") appeared. Soon, the stump, of course, disappeared. But even earlier, hopes for honest elections disappeared.

And at the end of this leap year on December 28, only one news appeared on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. But what : "The register of foreign media that perform the functions of a foreign agent is supplemented." Total on December 28 in that registry became 17 points. Under No. 1 - "Voice of America." A week ago, a foreign agent in Russia announced the Czech news agency Medium-Orient (No. 12). And on December 28, 2020, for the first time, individuals were included in the list of foreign agents. The additions now look like this: 13. Lev Ponomarev. 14. Lyudmila Savitskaya. 15. Sergey Markelov. 16. Denis Kamalyagin. 17. Daria Apakhonchich. There are three journalists on this list - two from Pskov (Savitskaya and Kamalyagin) and one of Petrozavodsk (Markelov). Lyudmila Savitskaya and Denis Kamyalyagin became known for work in the "Pskov province". This is a newspaper in which I have been working since 2011. In 2020, the anniversary thousandth number was supposed to be released. But this did not happen. In 2020, the Pskov Province newspaper has never been released at all. The last number appeared back in October 2019. And Sergey Markelov fell into the register of inagents on publications on the site 7x7-journal.ru. Why are they, not someone else? There is hardly logic here. After all, it was necessary to start with someone to give a signal to everyone else: close your mouth and eyes. Sit quietly, otherwise it will be worse. And for the most part, our people, alas, seem to be ready to follow these recommendations.

But, nevertheless, there is another force in the country. She definitely eats.

One of the most important results of the year is the completion of a two -year struggle in the Arkhangelsk region, in Shies. People did not let their native places into a landfill . The garbage teams have not yet calmed down and filed a cassation. But it is already clear: if you fall through the whole world, if you do not sit out and not be silent, but protect your rights, evil sometimes retreats.

And a half-year-old girl from Kaliningrad Milan Semenkova in July 2020 nevertheless introduced the drug "Zulgensma"-it helps patients with spinal muscular atrophy. The cost of the drug is incredible - $ 2 million per injection. This is the most expensive medicine in the world. Young parents did not have that kind of money. They were collected by the whole world . And collected. Moreover, due to the jump in the exchange rate, I had to additionally collect 22 million rubles.

When there is no more hopes for the state, there is hope for acquaintances and strangers. And on yourself. With this hope you can enter the New Year a little bolder.

Alexey Semenov - writer

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