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Fall into the abyss. Sketch
Boris Zhutovsky saw and painted for the “new”, as in the process in the “second case of“ Yukos ”, justice passed the point of non -return
Boris Zhutovsky. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta"
In the 2009-2010s, Boris Zhutovsky regularly visited the Khamovnican Court of Moscow, a pre-revolutionary building building, where the female gymnasium was once located. Now (that is, then, 13-14 years ago), the leaders of the company "Yukos" were judged in it.
Judged by the second entry. The first process in the philistine court ended in a 9-year sentence: they allegedly did not pay taxes. Then, entrepreneurs were delivered from the Chita colonies and tried again: they allegedly abducted all their oil, with which taxes did not pay before this (according to the logic of the then already rolling in the swamp, it was necessary to pay to the budget from the “stolen”).
The second court was no less scandalous. The trial in the Khamovniki took place under the close attention of the public - then it was still (people came even from other cities!) - and European diplomats. So Zhutovsky went to court and made drawn reports for the “new”.
Then he was closer to 80. He masterfully parked at the court and entered the building. Often in his characteristic manner he threw a breathlessly funny and abusive about prosecutors. He admitted that it was wildly important for him to go to this court.
He painted the process brilliantly, grasping all the essence and tragedy of what is happening. Here is the grill-and against her background by someone from the public brought a rose, especially for prisoners. Here are the eyes of Marina Filippovna Khodorkovskaya (mother of the MBH), but the eyes of the prosecutor Ibragimova. The look of the father of Khodorkovsky and the look of Judge Danilkin. Two worlds, in one of which is the abyss of soullessness ...
Zhutovsky did not make a cartoon. He recorded life. And it seems, better than us, then naive and slightly stupefied false Medvedev “thaw”, understood that the “case of“ Yukos ”was only the prologue of a future catastrophe.
He caught on his pencil only the emerging snout of the degrading Russian justice.
And so a year and a half: I went to court, then went to the workshop, and then I came to the workshop at the end of the week, we smoked, talked for my life, I took the drawings and proud (the drawings were put to my reports) took them to the editorial office of the “new”.
Justice from that time rolled into the abyss - the one that Zhutovsky recognized in the eyes of prosecutors and judges then.
It was on the “Case of the“ Yukos ”” the country's power corps (FSB, investigation, courts) worked out the main techniques of the current terry lawlessness and learned to commit crimes in the name of the Russian Federation:
send pregnant women and deadly patients to a pre -trial detention center, once they refuse to make a deal with the investigation; make decisions on the call; copy the sentences from the conviction; coordinate decisions with the presidential administration, report on flyer with the beneficiaries - caskets of the case; engage in forgery; Fabise the case file and invent more and more new repressive articles of the Criminal Code with crazy terms.
Zhutovsky managed to catch all this. And monstrous sentences, and custom -made political murders, and torture in prisons, and a special operation ... and literally painted until the last. Faces, eyes, life in the moment - hope and abyss.
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