One in the Krieger field

In Moscow, a trial began the activist of "Solidarity"

On Monday, March 13, they began to judge the “essentially” of the Moscow activist Mikhail Kriger - in the second Western District Military Court of Moscow. The yellow two -story pre -war building simultaneously recalls the proximity of Lefortovo garrisons (right behind it - the Petrovsky Palace on Yauz) and the Stalin era. Kriger, a long-standing critic of the Russian leadership and his opponent, sits in Butyrka-because of the post of teenager Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who blew himself up at the FSB building in Arkhangelsk.

The 63-year-old, not very healthy (asthma) person judges for the justification of terrorism and the excitement of hatred of the three judges, very friendly.

The listeners and the press 40 minutes after the appointed began to be invited to the hall and reported that, in fact, the meeting would be shown for two hours for two hours, but after 10 minutes a noticeably weighty Krieger was held along the corridor to the hall. While the judges have not come, Misha answers the questions of the audience about life in Butyrka: he walks, reads, teaches English, there is enough medicine from asthma. Only propaganda comes from the news, but "the news that I expect will be published everywhere." Activist Fokin compares this scene before the aquarium with the Socratic Dialog of Croton 2500 years later.

In general, Kriger in German is a warrior.

One of the judges who approached every journalist, where does it come from and what year of birth (“Eighty -ninth?” - “And what? A thousand nine hundred?”).

The court satisfies Mikhail’s petitions for the admission of the third public defender Ekaterina Ryzhova and the admission to the hall of his brother Paul (previously removed as a witness). The court calls and does not find at the meeting the daughter of Krieger Catherine. The prosecutor reads the accusation - the “sane post” about the anarchist Zhlobitsky, who undermined himself with the Arkhangelsk FSB. Mikhail Krieger reports that he does not admit his guilt. They interrogate the witness - the operative, who is the charge of the charge on the report. Yatsuk Alexander Valentinovich, “Eshnik”, tells how in the studied publications he found signs of justification of terrorism.

I can’t hear the “Ashnik” quietly, I sit in the corridor with Mikhail Aisha’s civilian wife, she was sick and arrived later, brought a statement and documents from the registry office to marry - the meetings were allowed only to relatives. We come in when they begin to interrogate the younger brother Krieger Paul.

When asked about nationality, Paul answers: "Jew." The judge asks for the protocol: "With such data, do you speak Russian?"

"Did Michael behind the peers in development?" - asks the judge of brother Paul. Paul replies that "he was ahead of eight once, so he sits here now." He says that they are from Dnepropetrovsk, there were three brothers, father - a veteran of war, parents are no longer alive. He tells how Mikhail studied at school and how he went to work, he served in the army and went to BAM. When a 60-year-old man, standing in front of the Presidium, like a schoolboy by the board, reports that his brother graduated from a ten-year-old with a triple by drawing, this is theft absurdly returns us to school-faster than a painful multi-hour sitting on severe chipboard than a listening to monotonous speeches of the prosecutor than five-minute breaks-“changes” than the taste of the Stolovsky Dunch.

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Mikhail led an excavator company and helped people all his life: refugees from Ukraine - now, refugees of Chechen wars - then, homeless and political prisoners. He drove his things with Sergey Mokhnatkin to a specialist and supervised the family orphanage, drove children from there to the Tretyakov Gallery, gave two graduates in his company, flew to the courts and constantly collected money to pay lawyers. In the concerts organized by Krieger, Sergey Yursky and Timur Shaov participated in support of the Politicals. (In September, Krieger asked me to disseminate information about the nearest evening, I replied that I did not like the organizer, and Misha wrote that if the sworn enemy arranged a concert for the sake of the Political Extra, he would immediately support him.)

He settled on the working area of ​​the homeless, and when he disappeared, having stolen a thousand rubles from someone from the brigade, to the question of why he brought the thief, he answered: “I gave the man a chance how he used it-his business.”

The judge clarifies about “close contact” with Dr. Lisa - in response, we hear Misha fed at the Paveletsky Station of the homeless (see the film “Station on Wednesdays”), bought them tickets home (which they threatened to rent and drink).

All pets (about 10 souls) are now selected with his wife Aisha. "Cottage, suburban houses?" - “This is not. Only drugs and psycho-dispensaries have nothing to say. ” - And Paul repeats the characteristic of the district police officer about the satisfactory behavior of the accused. “Excellent behavior,” the brothers are hollowing, the judge stops this. “The last time you were detained together in an administrative case,” Tertukhin’s lawyer recalls Paul.

“Yes, in March, Mikhail began to sing the anthem of Ukraine, and they began to detain it. I supported from solidarity - and they tied me. " “There is no such article for the anthem of Ukraine,” says the judge.

“Everyone loves and respects Misha. It so happened in life that wherever I come after Misha - to the school, to work - everywhere I was glad to be his brother. " The judge asks if Mikhail agrees with what Paul told about him. “Yes, I liked it. And I even think that if Pasha comes to Butyrka after me, then he will be very happy too. ”

Everyone laughs, the next meeting with an expert linguist from the defense and the prosecutor from the FSB is scheduled for 11 am on March 24. Judge goodbye to the participants in the process (it turned out that the whole hall): "Do not be late!"