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Alibi
Igor Baryshnikov received 7.5 years in colony for posts on social networks. He has no chance to go out alive. Essay on Leonid Nikitinsky
Igor Baryshnikov. Photo: OVD-Info*
At 5 o’clock in the evening of June 22, the judge of the Soviet District Court of the Kaliningrad Region Olga Balandin proclaimed the sentence to Igor Lazarevich Baryshnikov, born in 1959: seven and a half years in prison. But he will not sit so much in any way.
Opposite the court are the ruins of the stadium built for the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany. The defendant and his wife came through the park at the stadium on foot - he is in old jeans cut below the knees, and in a T -shirt. Under the jeans in his stomach, a pipe-chatter, which needs to be washed every day with a special solution and change once a week, and on the side a special bag for urine. He was not recommended to sit, so with the permission of the judge, he stood on her side by all court hearings, leaning on a tribune for witnesses.
On the street are unusual for the Baltic +30, and in court it is comfortable - you can breathe. Where he will be taken now, there are no air conditioners ... medicines! He, it turns out, did not begin to buy them for the future. Baryshnikov is definitely not superstitious - I think I just did not want to fuss: vanity is humiliating.
A click of handcuffs is black, as if someone had taken a ballpoint pen in the worst to write down-"do not forget: 7.5 years." Until now, the convoy has not been visible anywhere, which means that they arrived from Kaliningrad before us and hid the car in the yard. Everyone does their work, everyone is just doing their job, nothing more ... What other medicines? Well, tomorrow pass to the pre -trial detention center. - In Kaliningrad? This is two hours of driving on a minibus and money - you won’t run ... - Pray to God, so as not to Chernyakhovsk. Well, it will be seen there - where they will take ...
“The judge of Balandin is not to blame,” lawyers explain to me on the way back, “here is sin primarily on the doctors.” The judge did what she could. Firstly, a year ago, she did not take Baryshnikov in custody. He had to take care of his mother, she will be 97 years old the other day. Because of the mother, who broke his leg in 2016, Igor returned to Sovetsk. Before the search in their apartment in May last year, my mother still understood something, and then she stopped understanding. Although who knows her.
On the eve of Igor, apologizing, interrupted the conversation with me in his kitchen: "Now I will only feed my mother with an apple." Gently cleaned the quarter from the peel - and at a time she will not eat. "Mom, do you want an apple?" - It was heard from the next room.
On June 22, together with the verdict, the judge issued a separate decision on the transfer of her mother to some kind of “USZN to resolve the issue of its structure”. Until now, when Igor was taken from rallies for a “day”, the German fund sent a social worker to replace. Mom is a victim of the Holocaust, miraculously ran away into the war, and all her relatives were shot in Polotsk. Dad died from cancer 11 years ago, and once passed two wars: Finnish and Great Patriotic War. Then he worked all his life in Sovetsk at a cellulose-paper plant, and retired retired as a chief engineer-a family respected in Sovetsk. And the town is small, everyone knows them here.
In fact, it used to be Tilsit, here Alexander I and Napoleon concluded the Tilsit world in 1807. Napoleon tried to care for the Prussian Queen Louise, but we liked our Alexander more. And the Tilsit world did not last long. And the Queen of Louise is still standing, under the Soviet regime, they went to Lithuania for cottage cheese on bicycles. After the beginning, it was closed, but who has a Lithuanian residence permit can go there on foot. Just during the reading of the sentence, the SSEMSK came to me, I read it after: “Welcome to Lithuania!” This MTS hooked the towel there. Neman in this place 600 meters wide, it is at night to spit on a boat once. And there are such specialists here, in the 90s, a “horse” was driven out at the bottom: there were cigarettes, from there cheese-half a city fed this.
In Lithuania, they say, they do not plant people just like that. But where are you going to run away from mom? And the homeland is not an empty place, although it is not quite ordinary in these parts: the local streets a couple of centuries ago are still not Russian people with a cobblestone, and not even Ukrainians.
Along with my mother, Igor Lazarevich, like all normal people, has a wife and children. But no one saw children in the course of a criminal case at all, and Lyudmila’s wife came to his last word for the first time, and at first glance she was slightly wonderful. The day before, when we spoke in the kitchen, she did not say hello, she only hissed her husband, slipping through the door, which would be better for him to shut up and engulf. “Vanity over the edge! ..” And she ran away - as he explained to me, to church:
“They have a community there, they actually support their own, but they will also pray for me.”
In the evening, in court, when at the request of the prosecutor’s office they were not allowed to the debate of the parties (in the same place terrible military secrets are discussed!), I was able to talk a little in the corridor in the cold. “Luda, you have a wonderful husband. That's what I definitely did not notice in it, so it is vanity. It is not at all like participants in protest actions, but I saw such, thank God. ” Participants of shares in the amount of three also came from Kaliningrad to support and are sitting right there. Tomorrow, a mummher in camouflage and a strange, painful look of a couple in covid masks will be drunk tomorrow. This is for the television camera that takes the plot about justice, and these will have such a text: "They gave him little!" Sympathetic to the announcement will also be allowed a little more, but they will not dare to shout "shame!".
Lawyer Katya Selizarova says that from their democratic party, who can more or less know something, dumped for a long time, and the remaining most of the Baskets. Exceptions - Igor and Vadim Khairullin, who was released at 8 in the morning only today after a year of imprisonment under the “Dadin” article and immediately asked us to see a friend with us - maybe it will never work again. Katya herself, in Kaliningrad, was a successful lawyer in civil and family affairs, not about it at all, but after she entered the defense of the local Demshiz and managed to study it well. Perhaps the churched Lyudmila smelled some pride demons there, and her husband is not at all like that, it is true.
“Why did you get it into it? She says, not turning. “There is nothing more valuable than life.” The support group is trying to object, but she does not listen to them: “Why did he contact you? Anyway, nothing will change here "...
So, this is how she was taught where she was gone.
I say: "Actually, Jesus could also be silent, you look, and it would cost." - "You do not understand anything!" “Well, why don't I understand right away?” I understand this: "The persecuted truths are blessed ..."
- “No, you don't understand. He is just a fool. They are manipulated. " The next day, when we go to the pharmacy, she will repeat in the car: “Lord! I lived with him for forty -three years! .. Forty -three years, Lord! .. "
“Chicken,” Katya’s lawyer is strictly determined. - She could not stroke her husband. In court, everything matters, and he is in a T -shirt all this - increased hairy. ” But Igor’s wife loves, and he, too, is immediately visible.
Vadik, who was packed like a pole in a year, advises, before going into the hall for a sentence, nevertheless to remove a silver chain from Igor’s neck, apparently with a cross. Here everyone begins to see that this is not a movie. Luda hugged her husband by the neck, tries to unfasten the chain, and it does not dislike. They coped somehow. Here he is, Luda, the cross! It is said: whoever wants, take your cross and follow me ... And who does not want - well, live so, keep silent. But it turns out, your truth is that Igor Lazarevich is an egoist. Only about himself and thinks how to escape. But what about his wife, but mom? ..
Everyone has their own truth - it was so taught to her in the community. But - "I will tell you one smart thing, only you do not be offended." Mikhail Bakhtin - there was such a literary critic and a philosopher who was not very loved under the Soviet regime, - wrote: "We do not have an alibi in being." Baryshnikov lives in being, that is, "being." And you are with your community, therefore, in non -existence - here is your "alibi": you can’t think better.
They met in Leningrad, where Igor graduated from the Polytechnic Institute, and Luda only came to arrive. Then they worked in Latvia and did not run from there in 1991 headlong, but "they could even take out a headset." She has relatives in Magnitogorsk, and they had some kind of business there, but in 2016 this story happened with her mother. Previously, Baryshnikov didn’t get into what, but how they poisoned Navalny in 2020, so something relocated him-he began to go to rallies, he was taken twice-once for eight days, the other for a month. He simply explains his actions: “Well, how? This is an abomination ”...
On March 2 last year, Baryshnikov prudently closed his Facebook page ** and reposted several messages “for friends” on it about what now, after 14 months, no one is particularly arguing. To prove to the court that Baryshnikov closed the page, the defense needed a notary public, but all the employees of this venerable profession in Kaliningrad were afraid to contact the forbidden Facebook, and indeed. But suddenly there was one who not only assured everything, but also refused to take the money for this. "I have met so many good people thanks to this criminal!" - rejoices in the hucksters.
Meanwhile, a certain “Catherine”, which never manifested itself, had not appeared in him a little earlier in his “friends”, but in the case file it turns out that this was the “E” center, which saved his posts on Facebook. So believes the second lawyer of Baryshnikova - Maria Bonzler, who last year was fined for “discrediting” by speaking in court debate.
The investigation considered that Baryshnikov’s reposts were obviously false, since the speaking head of the Ministry of Defense on the TV said differently.
In his extremist Facebook, Igor acted before that, but this is already casuistry - and who will pay attention to it when the Motherland is in danger. 207.3 Criminal Code, part 2: based on personal hatred.
In mid -May last year, Baryshnikov could not be fed for the whole day, and he was taken to the Sovetsk ambulance hospital. The urban surgeon Vadim Epifantsev, whom we met in Kaliningrad, explained that there was no direct connection with the criminal case, although it could contribute to exacerbation, because the human body is such a tricky thing.
It seems to be cancer, but still operating, and so far it is not for sure. Complex tests are needed to understand what and how to treat and whether it is necessary to cut, but the tests could not really be done.
From the hospital in Sovetsk, by order of the head physician Baryshnikov, they soon shouted. Vadim had a similar case in Primorye, from where he came by invitation to the Kaliningrad region: there a thief in the law that was accused of murder hit him with a bullet wound to him. They also demanded to write out more likely, but he first cured him - he is a doctor, not a prosecutor, right? But at least it is clear for what, but this? Baryshnikov, as soon as it became a little easier for him, let all the neighbors take pots in the ward, because there is a misfortune with the nannies. That they attached to him, huh? .. The surgeon of the Epiphans cannot be understood.
No, no one threatened him with dismissal, but they gave it to understand. After all, we have in medicine as: if a factory, then a member of United Russia. You have to understand: who are you saving? In general, Vadim quit and does not know how to continue to be: children still study at school and they really like Kaliningrad. From a professional point of view, he will be torn off in any hospital with his hands, but everywhere in the residential TV is broadcast, and it is simply impossible to live like that humanly.
The patronage of Baryshnikov in terms of health care was taken by Katya, because he does not know how to stand up for himself, only if for Navalny. Each doctor now has to explain that no, she is not his wife, but a lawyer. But no one is going to treat him in the Kaliningrad region. Yes, and they don’t know how, to be honest, but the Epiphanes in the kitchen will not be able to cut cancer. They went to the urologist from the St. Petersburg Clinic "Medsi", who once a month accepts in Kaliningrad, he praised the catheter of Vadim and said that he was ready to put Baryshnikov in St. Petersburg for money, but we need to re-clinic from the clinic at the place of registration in Sovetsk.
We went to the main Kaliningrad urologist Alexander Shvaba, but for a year a piece of paper failed. None of the local doctors undertook to say that with such a disease as Baryshnikov’s, one can be in places of imprisonment. Type, this is an almost insoluble question: whether it falls or not in the treasured list of government No. 54, which is very tricky. Two professors from Moscow, to whom the lawyer Bonzler paid from their own money, sent a weighty conclusion: of course not.
In the hospitals of the FSIN, no one can do any such analyzes, or even more such an operation. And in a prison conditions, it is likely to get into a catheter of any infection, and then death. The judge of Balandin introduced the conclusion to the case.
All this is generally only thanks to her: Balandina postponed meetings over and over again due to the state of health of Baryshnikov, and after all, she could have taken him to custody before. Already died in a cell - it would not be necessary for her to take a sin to her soul - to pass the accusatory sentence. They almost managed: in St. Petersburg, a priest Fr. Grigory Mikhnov-Vovyutenko, banned in the service of excommunication from the participants of the armed conflict in the Donbass in 2014, agreed with some Fund on the payment of Baryshnikov’s treatment. But on June 20, on the eve of the last meeting, she refused to let him go to Peter Balandin.
Could the judge save him? Probably yes. Suppose she would give him eight years as the prosecutor asked, but with a delay in the execution of the sentence for six months in connection with a serious illness (Article 398 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation). Such a sentence in the appeal would probably be canceled, but it would take at least a month, and in a month all together would have managed to push him to the hospital in St. Petersburg. But the judge would most likely have to pay with your position and pension for this-not on this case, but for some other would be found what to complain about. In life, of course, there is always a place for a feat, but here you are not your own.
It was very difficult for her to plant him. Without difficulty, the hand rises to those who vitya and beasts: oh, so you? - Well, get, enemy! .. But the ladies are not at all like that, he seems to even sympathize with them. They have to lie and for permissions, but what could be worse?
Katya-advoca, while I was taking me to the airport in my red car, said that when all this body started, she left her peasant, although he was not at all bad and with money: “What kind of time is not the time for sharp movements?” “And I thought about it: is that the person with whom I want to spend, perhaps, the last days of my life? .. And I think: no, not the same.” Everything became somehow much sharper, and for someone it is even more honest. “The truth is easy and pleasant,” as Pontius Pilate answered with Bulgakov one character.