Sergeant Knyazev against Zelensky operator

How long will the new class society last?

The Presnensky court of Moscow arrested the video operator of the Foundation for the fight against corruption* Pavel Zelensky for an entry on Twitter made in October last year. Zelensky commented on the suicide of the Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina, who committed suicide in protest against the arbitrariness of the authorities, and apologized to her. In addition, as the investigation believes, Zelensky “threatened the highest representatives of state authorities” and called for violent actions addressed to them.

Now the father of two children Zelensky faces up to five years in prison.

This sequence of events - for a tweet in a pre -trial detention center - in Russia of 2021 is considered more likely as routine and familiar.

Especially if we are talking about an employee of the Foundation of Alexei Navalny on the eve of the return of a politician to Russia. It seems that the authorities are not even trying to pretend that such rights are guaranteed to people as the FBK operator in our country-at least the right to be subscribing to the court sentence.

The security forces did not see the grounds to investigate the bringing to the suicide of Irina Slavina herself. The refusal to initiate a criminal case was justified by the data of the posthumous psychological examination, which seemed to find the journalist "unbalanced". There is no criminal case and on the poisoning of Navalny. It is clear that in modern Russia some citizens can be thrown into a pre -trial detention center for tweet, but violent crimes against others do not deserve any attention. In the end, the police and the Investigative Committee can be understood: they are simply very busy with the fight against thought crime.

For example, investigating the case of emitting hatred against the FSB officers, accused of which the former army colonel Mikhail Shendakov is taking place,

The investigator near Moscow demanded that the turnout of the corresponding video on YouTube be provided for testimony for testimony

(where this very hatred was supposedly spread by Shendakov). This one investigative event can perhaps take the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a couple of months. Relatives Slavina and Navalny will wait.

The things are even more indicative if the crimes are committed by representatives of the bodies themselves. In December, the Moscow police sergeant Ivan Knyazev shot the knee of the minor, whom he allegedly harassed. Knyazev is uncommon by the court with a less dangerous criminal than the Zelensky operator with his tweet, and is now resting under house arrest.

The Krasnodar judge Arsen Krikorov generally escaped criminal punishment, although his car knocked out eighteen -year -old Victoria Zverev at a pedestrian crossing - the judge is a “special squad”.

Different laws are relied in different people in Russia, and this is the exact definition of the estate society, which we, apparently, built in the course of the progressive development of stability.

The question is now exclusively how long it can last. In the September elections to the State Duma, without a doubt, those who ordered this version of stability will win. Not because someone actually supports the Russian authorities, but because, within the framework of the new class, the election results can be drawn with impunity in the Paint program.

However, if they wanted to think strategically in the Kremlin, they would already see how the slogan “Friends of everything, the people of the law” doom the country to disaster.

• NPOs "Fund for the fight against corruption" is recognized as an organization performing the functions of a foreign agent