How the village of Bessonovka lives near Penza, where teachers are judged in favor of the governor in favor of the governor in favor of the governor. Reporting "New"

Bessonovka is a 20 -minute village from Penza. In September last year, here, as in the entire region, they chose the governor - the unicorn Ivan Belozertsev won. In April 2021, Belozertsev was arrested for receiving a bribe - according to investigators, he received money from the head of the pharmaceutical companies Boris Spiegel, Mercedes Benz and Breguet watches. After these events, three criminal cases were instituted in Bessonovka at once - the staff of the kindergarten, school and the Center for Children's Creativity were involved. Some people, allegedly teachers, hung a jacket on cameras, obscured them with a stand, asked for a “day off for that”. Although such falsifications in the elections are recorded by independent observers regularly, such criminal cases are extremely rare in Russia.

The head of the children's center Svetlana Sverchkova (member of United Russia) was in the bench of the defendants first - during the debate she pleaded guilty, burst into tears and asked the court to forgive her.

According to investigators, the woman personally entered false information into 1324 unused ballots. In fact, only 204 people voted on the site.

At the meeting in the case of Sverchkova there was no one but the direct participants in the process. The case was considered in a special order: in half an hour, without researching evidence. Sverchkova was found guilty and received a year and a half in prison. The correspondent of the "Novy" went to Besonovka to find out that the villagers of Sverchkova think about "United Russia" and elections.

"I ate black caviar, and now let him sit"

On the street was a bell. It smells of manure, the air is teeming with flocks of small midges. A strong man with two buckets of yellow and red cherries in his hands wanders from the garden to the open trunk of the “nine”. He listens carefully to our story about Sverchkov, about the elections, about the court. Sleepni pester a wet hands from sweat.

- The director was judged ... Sverchkov, or what? - raises his eyes. - No, I don't know anything about it. Well, you see for yourself, but what is the point of choosing then? They falsified, they chose it, and then put it. One person in Russia does not solve anything!

From the neighboring site, an elderly woman in a blue sundress with sunflowers, Tatyana Ivanovna, hear a conversation. She is 68 years old. She smiles, leaning on the fence. Curly gray hair crawls out from under the scarf. She did not reach the polls in September.

“ Yes, they heard the ringing, and that's all ... We don’t know where he is, ” smiles.

“ Doesn't it outraged you that your voice could be stolen?”

- How is it not outraged? Certainly! This means that someone gave money for this. They profit from us. And we, pensioners, pay this tax, we pay. You will survive before retirement - you know how insulting it will be! You perform, you do not speak - no one listens to us. Only in the Duma they listen, and there everyone sits sleeping.

Tatyana Ivanovna worked all her life on the collective farm. Now my husband and husband are working in production operators - they are pumping waste.

- We used to go to work in the field - everyone knew what was happening, but now not. We live with my grandfather together in the house. Do you know what is our salary? Seven and a half thousand. Now there is even no salaries.

Tatyana Ivanovna thinks that to ask the government on the eve of the elections - this September in the field the new governor elections and elections of State Duma deputies, as well as throughout the country.

This question, turning to a scream, is answered by a woman passing by with packages of products: “Girls, what to ask him, please tell me? When did you do something for us? When?"

“ Here my son died, he was alone with me, ” continues Tatyana Ivanovna. - The daughter -in -law is one, poor, stayed, earns. One son will go to the fourth grade, the other goes to the third year of the institute - they also need to pull them alone ... And what will you do with benefits - they will be given nine thousand. The bosses get a fucked salary, but what are we?

Already saying goodbye, Tatyana Ivanovna adds, recalling the arrested governor: “Here he ate black caviar, and now let him sit! I didn’t seem to do anything bad, but what a quiet horror, how much money we found ... We did not know this. But who will say what? Who are we? We are nobody, we are cattle. They will hear us directly, daughter? How will they be ... "

"I will put all the checkmarks against them"

Residents of Bessonovka, who live near the Center for Children's Creativity, have heard something else about the court. But after two or three streets, they don’t know who Sverchkova is and what happened in the election.

The red -haired bright pensioner in the top and shorts - it seems to be aunt - squints from the sun. An old gray grandmother peeps out of the window, smiles carefully.

“ We have a neighbor nearby, Olya, she is a teacher, was in these elections, they hired, ” says Lyuba. - Of course, forced. They say that the director was forced. She worried, were they really “that” after the arrest ...

Lyubov’s husband comes out of the gate - Alexei Evgenievich. A thin fit pensioner with glasses. He crosses his hands on his chest, listening carefully to his wife. He refuses to be photographed- “a wooden house is still with us”, something can happen to the house. Then, for some reason, he quickly leaves and returns with a diploma in the frame.

It says: “Honorary diploma. For conscientious work, professional skill, exemplary performance of official duties. ”

- You are about the elections here ... The last time I went to them, I will never go anymore. I have given the railway for 30 years. Imagine how much I did not have a driver, I had a short -lived, overshadowed? All life on wheels has passed. Belozertsev presented me this letter, usually with her they also give a bonus of 15 thousand, but no. He handed me, and then all this happened to him, arrest - and I, excuse me, became as an indivisible. I wanted to throw it out at all, my wife said, no.

“And I worked for 30 years in the post office, I have a little less pension - 12 thousand,” says Lyuba.

- For whom will you go to vote in the election? - I ask.

- Well, for United Russia, yes. Come on, why not go?

“ We need to choose ordinary people, simple, ” the husband replies Lube, “ so that then there is no such katavasia, Lyuba.”

- So he was simple, he led normally, then he remained for a second term.

Putin also chose, what's the difference - right? The first time they chose, stayed for five years, then for another five years. Why change them?

Alexei Evgenievich noticeably nervous and boosts circles next to his wife, looking down, under his feet. Lyuba continues quietly and hastily:

“ I don’t go anywhere, I don’t ask anyone.” The young was - ran to the village council with appeals. And now I don’t go anywhere, I have no time to walk. My granddaughter is a disabled child, I'm sitting with him. With cerebral palsy was born. This is my grief.

She continues: “We are already six years old. We do not walk, do not say. We are sitting simple. And no one helps, no one needs anything. My daughter-in-law went to Belozertsev for a personal reception to ask us any money to help us, he said: “I have all the money in the budget, I can’t give out anything.” And as in the army - so with flat feet, although with anything, the youngest was taken to Chechnya. "

We have been talking about the elections for a long time and about what the residents of Bessonovka in power ask.

- You say that you will not go this time to choose, but you are not afraid that your voice will be stolen? - I ask Alexei Evgenievich.

“ No, I'll go, ” the pensioner decides. Lyuba laughs.

“ But I’ll put all the checkmarks against them,” concludes the pensioner.

Center for Falsification

Bessonovsky District Court - at the seven a village. Around the building is empty, in fact it stands in the field. But with parking for cars. The stairs have a red taxophone.

At the meeting in the case of Sverchkova there was no one but the participants in the process. Support groups - neighbors, relatives - also not. Only the applicant - Anton Strunin, the former coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny* in Penza, arrived in time.

“ I went to court, this is still the surroundings,” says Strunin. - There one bailiff sits. A bunch of flies, small midges are some kind of field, everything is just teeming with them. And the bailiff is: "Who are you?" I say: "The applicant." There is no court of the court, so we are not starting. And now it is already an hour, I ask: "So the meeting is probably already going on." “No, ” she says, “ she did not come. The chairman of the court is the judge. "

And at the meeting itself, everything looked like ... I have to get together. Everyone knows what will happen. A purely contract match. For the look, they said something, the prosecutor read the piece of paper in which it was already printed that the victim during the hearing pleaded guilty. Maybe nothing should have taken place at all, but I still arrived.

Sverchkova and a lawyer were sitting for about an hour discussing children, common friends, someone bought a car there ...

***

The Center for Children's Creativity, a faded pink building opposite the editorial office of a rural newspaper, at first glance, is empty. Holidays.

- So Svetlana Sergeevna is on the spot! At work. Where else can she be? - the watchman raises his hands at the post. Leads us to the very end of the second floor to the assembly hall. There, because of the ajar doors, a woman in a burgundy dress and with a ribbon in her hair can be seen - she lays out posters drawn by children on the tables.

- Svetlana Sergeevna, they want you here!

Sverchkova begins to smile in advance and hastily runs to the door. Upon learning that we are journalists, instantly changes in the face. “No, girls, no interview. No and not again, ” and just as she ran to us, runs away in the opposite direction. And then he sends the schoolgirl to make sure that we leave the building. The girl silently wanders after us until the exit.

"An adequate person who was extreme in the scheme"

We go to the tiny edition of the Bessonovsky Izvestia. It’s cool here, the only journalist sits alone at the empty table. Black hair is covered in a tight tail. He does not call his name: “I will not. Here we have such a mentality: people refuse to speak anonymously, not anonymously. They try not to trust anyone. "

- We did not illuminate this business. Everything came to everyone with rumors, - the girl shakes her head. “ Everyone knows each other here.” We have no evidence that it was set up. And we cannot blame her. But she did not start in this matter. And who - she will not tell anyone.

The newspaper did not write anything about criminal cases following the results of elections in the village. And about the court - even more so. Over the head on the wall, hours with the logo of "United Russia" are quietly tapping.

- I generally think that participating in the elections is an ungrateful business. It is better to stay away from this and not support anyone.

We cover not only the activities of United Russia, try both the Communist Party and the LDPR. We write about candidates so that people know them. But in the elections themselves we are apolitical.

Sverchkova, according to the girl, is one of the old -timers of the village. And she was very worried about what happened, was depressed and even outwardly and in behavior changed:

- I often meet her, we communicate not on these topics at all. It seems to me that it is not very beautiful to remember, to ask her. She could have told about her experiences, but for her already shame that all this resulted in, what we learned. She had a thousand opportunities to tell us - she did not. A normal, adequate person who was extreme in this scheme. I can’t say that she stands out, that the rich travels to something or some kind of evil.

According to the journalist, the courts in the case of falsifications continue - and not one Sverchkov, but also other members of the commission passes on them. They are not advertised. Allegedly, all these people are school teachers and leadership. Just Sverchkova was on the news.

Vladimir Demin, the director of the secondary school of Bessonovka, where there were also violations, there are no in the news. Although he publicly stated that the cameras were closed not because of the stuffing of the ballots, but because "the walls were prepared for repair." We are trying to get to school, but the woman protects the director at the security post. "Well, maybe no longer necessary?" She asks , closing the front door. And then, swearing and lamenting that for some reason this story is still remembered, asks not to talk about it with the director. During the day, Demin never leaves the building.

* The headquarters of Alexei Navalny were recognized by the Moscow City Court with extremist organizations