"Is it already in 1937 or still have to wait?"

To the journalist Ivan Safronov was given 22 years. Here are the first reactions to this crazy sentence

The former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony, finding guilty of treason. According to the prosecution, he transmitted secret information to the special services of Germany and the Czech Republic. At the same time, there is no evidence of guilt in the case - and almost all “secret information” can be found in the public domain. Medusa collected the first reactions to this sentence.

Ksenia Mironova

Journalist, Bride Ivan Safronova

Under our Safron apartment there was a drunken Mishan. Two years ago, Mishan, to death, raped his comrade with a bottle of comrade, but did not go to prison. This year, Mishany threw the drinking companion from the window to death and left for 5 years. Vanya was given 22 today.

Ekaterina Shulman

political scientist

22 years in a maximum security colony plus 500 thousand [rubles] a fine and two years of restriction of freedom after liberation. But something suggests that he will not sit so much-for neither the emir nor the donkey are eternal, and the walls are not as impenetrable as it seems first.

Ilya Dewarer

The head of the project "Support Service", former publisher "Medusa"

I always believed and believe that justice will triumph. I have already believed for so many years. But every time, with every business, with each war it is less and less clear what will be fair for them. It seems that there is no longer any justice, there is nothing to answer to such an amount of evil in order to restore the balance.

Pavel Chikov

Head of the Human Rights Group "Agora"

Honestly, I did not find sentences in the cases of the Stateizer with terms of more than 20 years. It must be understood that the sanction of Article 275 of the Criminal Code [On Gosizmen] implies the maximum punishment at the age of 20. The court appointed Ivan Safronov more, because he was accused of two episodes, the punishment for each of which is assigned separately. Then the court determined the final period by partial or complete addition.

The terms for the affairs of the Stateizer have always been large. But in recent years, the tendency of their growth has been noticeable. Ten years ago, it was usually a fork from 6 to 9 years old, in the last five years, sentences of 12-15 years are already frequent.

Associate Professor of the Department of missile engines of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) Alexei Vorobyov in April 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in colony.

As a rule, under this article they attract people who have access to GOSTIN. In addition, the recognition of guilt and cooperation actually affects the term in these cases.

Ivan Safronov was imposed on a fanatic, defiantly cruel, corresponding to the current realities of Russia.

Taisiya Bekbulatova

editor -in -chief of the "cold" publication

I remember how Vanya noticed surveillance a couple of years before the arrest. He did not know what this was connected with. I then asked him if he wanted to leave, and he said that he would never leave, despite all the risks, because it was his country and his family is here.

Lisa Focht

Correspondent of the "Russian BBC service"

Ivan Safronov today received 22 years. It is impossible to find words. As well as to understand how the loved ones of Ivan cope with this - for example, a mother who first lost her husband, and now she is forced to watch her son thrown in jail for a quarter century.

Leonid Volkov

politician, ally of Alexei Navalny

About 22 years of strict regime.

In 2015, Vasya Fedorovich, a lawyer from Yekaterinburg, the leader of the gang, who killed Uzbeks and Tajiks (mainly for the purpose of entertainment), received 22 years of strict regime. There were about 40 murders, in court 14 murders and 5 attempts were proved.

Now, I suppose, in Ukraine is fighting. He will also receive a medal from Putin (I hope, posthumously).

Safronov will not sit his term. All this will end much earlier. But the cannibalism of those nonhumans, which 24 [years] requested and 22 gave, who invented this “case” and led - this is all already recorded and will never be forgotten.

Anastasia Sechin

The coordinator of the project "Mushroomsite"

If I had been imprisoned for 22 years, I would have left when my eldest son would be 34 - this is almost like me now. My daughter would be 30. My youngest [son] 28. My husband is 70. Well, I counted and sit looking at one point, I have nothing more to say.

Polina Nikolskaya

Journalist

This letter was sent to me by Vanya Safronov from the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center.

Today Vanya received 22 years in a maximum security colony for doing journalism. As we know, there is no secret information in the case file that would not be contained in open sources. For communicating with the sources, published exclusives, told the truth, Vanya was accused of a Stateizer.

I don’t know how to hold on, Vanya, and believe in the best. You will definitely go out earlier. People who planted you should answer for this. [It is possible to hold on] only, probably, faithfully in this.

Vitaly Egorov

Founder of the Utuub-Project "Open Cosmos"

We are Ivan Safronov.

22 years for an unproven spying for a person who is not a spy, did not have access to Gostine and received $ 248 from a foreigner. He spent two years in Lefortovo, while the investigation was digging evidence, and nothing dug, and now for 22 years he will sew the mittens in the colony. The clean hands of the Motherland will be warm.

And now let's think: Vanya was not lucky that he crossed the road to some GRU Colonel [Main intelligence control] or ... lucky? He has already become silent, a rapid response group will not fly behind him, he will not listen to threats to his relatives and friends from traces, not to bargain with his conscience, which is better - sincere and 12 years or honor and 22 years. Now he is fed and has state guarantees of his stable future for more than twenty years. He has something that most Russian citizens do not have. Maybe even no one.

Someone knows what the traces who were doing Safronov’s business are doing today? Does someone believe that these wonderful people with a cold heart and a hot head retired to Crimea to raise cabbage with a sense of a duty? To whom will special forces break out on the balcony tomorrow? Whose sentence, written by the prosecutor, will the judge read out the next morning?

This car, which was burnt by Vanya, did not choke, did not eat, did not stop. Her screws continue to go to work, they need new ranks, new awards, they need kipiai [ kpi ]. They need us. It used to be taken only noticeable, who needed more than anyone, who was running around. Vanya was not one of those, Dyzh , Zayakin , Kolker , Gorinov - familiar surnames? These are not Navalny, not the Nemtsovs, most Russians never heard these names, and their car bit or already gobbled up.

Tomorrow ... no, today, every citizen of Russia can be the next one.

And you too.

And I.

I do not pump, do not intimidate, do not threaten. I bring the information for note. Accept it for granted and make decisions. While you have quietly on your balcony.

Irina Yakutenko

Scientific journalist

Ivan Safronov was given 22 years. For 22 years you can be born, learn at school, graduate from a university, start working, meet the first love, marry and even make a child. This is a whole life. And another 500 thousand are a fine, so that parents are also good. Comparison lovers, is it already in 1937 or still have to wait?

Alexey Ponomarev

Musician, editor of Podkastov

Vanya Safronov was given 22 years in colony in the fabricated case of Gosizman. 22 years ago I graduated from the school in which we studied with Vanya together. ******** [to go crazy] you can, honestly.

Borislav Kozlovsky

Scientific journalist, writer

Once I sat down and wrote a text about different scientific projects that united only one thing - the start date in the implausible future. Well, like, by 2040, NASA will send such and such an probe to the distant space for the search for exoplanets, and European physicists are going to turn on the DEMO thermonuclear reactor in the distant 2033. The most important engine of the text was that all these dates that you could not meet in another context-2033, 2040-began to seem tangible with something.

Well, today I read the news about 2044. In 2044, they are going to release from prison - if he lives until the end of the term - journalist Ivan Safronov, who wrote in Kommersant about space and the army. He was just given 22 years on charges of espionage. When Safronov will be released, he will be 54.

He is 8 years younger than me, this is a dude born in 1990.

You can read about the viability of the prosecution on the “Project” website - do not share a link, if you are in the Russian Federation, you can also be imprisoned for this, because “project” is an “unwanted organization” .

The phrase “Freedom to Ivan Safronov” seems extremely meaningless to me - it looks like an appeal to those who dispose of his freedom, that is, to a gang of war criminals, who are around the neck in the blood. That is, for some reason they should, continuing to do their usual things-first of all, by the mass smearing of living people from Slavyansk to Nikolaev-to get away from them for a second and Safronov to let go.

Instead, of course, I wish both Safronov and [detained for the distribution of “fakes” about the Russian army Ilya] to Yashin , and only one for Navalny-to survive until someone neutrally neutralizes, led by Putin. And the issue of their freedom will be solved by itself. And before that, unfortunately, it will not be decided in any way.

Evgeny Popov

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy

As a journalist, the numbers are shocking me. But the accusation is heavy. I hope this is only the beginning. The defense said that she would appeal the verdict and present all her arguments. I am sure that if there is at least the slightest hope that Ivan is innocent, if there are chances and arguments, they will be implemented in higher authorities. Of course, the figure is huge, just incredible.

I would not see some kind of trend in this, and even more so, I was not scattered by terms such as repression. I hope we will see the investigation arguments, although there are less and less chances.

Nyuta Federmeser

Head of the Hospice Charity Fund "Vera"

22 years.

And there is no point in asking "for what?" Because, as always, the correct question "for what?" In order for others to be afraid.

What were they afraid? All and all. Yourself, your shadow, relatives, friends, authorities, subordinates, reflection in the mirror, children, their own words and thoughts.

For what? To rule not at the expense of their own intelligence and professional qualities, but due to human fear. History shows that the method is effective. But for a limited time.

Nikita Mogutin

journalist

Twenty -two years Vanya Safronova - this story is not about justice and not about the struggle for justice. Twenty -two years of strict regime - a journalist for his professional activity - is a story about the fundamental revenge of the Russian state. This is a story about the defeat of the system in the summer of 2019, when the Vani Golunov case was falsified. Under pressure, the system was forced to hand back - and then Vanya remained at large, the Anaconda was forced to abide her prey.

All the more fundamental it was not to yield in the case of Safronov. Whoever stood behind this falsification - the SVR or the FSB - they took revenge on that humiliating defeat for them. In the summer of 2019, we discussed that “it is scary to become the next journalist” - they will not let him go or save him. "For himself and for Vanka."

That is why the story of twenty-two years for journalist Safronov is a story about the revenge of humiliated power, revenge on each of those who went after Vanya Golunov, a fundamental answer to everyone who thought that the position of society in Russia affects something.