In countries with British legal traditions, citizens have the right to independently, in the order of private prosecution, demand the punishment of criminals for the crimes committed in a criminal court. In this case, the prosecutor is not a state prosecutor, but a citizen or a lawyer hired by him, defending the public good or interests of the victims of the crime and members of their families.

In the opposition Amnesty from the bar December 20, 2013 Alexander Podrabinek The amnesty is ambiguous, as well as much of what the power does. Therefore, the sensations from her are dual: on the one hand, it is good that someone was freed, on the other, it is sad that the rest are sitting. In this case, it is about political prisoners, about prisoners of the "swamp business".

The US presidential administration Barack Obama refused to expand the Magnitsky List, which includes Russians, involved, according to the White House, in the death of a lawyer. On this morning on Friday, December 20, the online publication of The Daily Beast reported. There is no evidence of this news yet, the only source of information at the moment is the aforementioned publication The Daily Beast, which supposedly has its own sources in the White House and the Administration.

Trying to stay in the framework of common sense ... Yesterday I tried to figure it out right during the broadcast on the Echo of Moscow Radio, during a break on news, but on the go did not solve the quadrature of the circle ... So. From Khodorkovsky to Putin (if we assume that the petition, secretly from lawyers, wrote the MBX) paper of pardon was supposed to pass through five to six hands, and this could not take less than a week. Well, he didn’t send DHL from Segezha, right?

In society They know ... December 20, 2013 Igor Kharichev One of my friends, living in a small village in the Krasnodar Territory, talked about how she and another socially active person in the last election worked observers. Two people for thirty thousand inhabitants. My acquaintance knows many. And those who were a member of the election commissions, on the eve of the elections, asked her not to come to their plots.

At least for something we can definitely thank the Olympics in Sochi. If Sochi had not existed, Khodorkovsky would not have received any pardon. But, on the other hand: no matter how Vladimir Vladimirovich tries to convince us that he doesn’t “follow” the affairs of the MBH, no matter how he tries to turn the main sensation into something said casually on the sidelines, he still values ​​Michal Borisych. Michal Borisych saves the entire Olympics!

In the Kremlin Putin unexpectedly announced the pardon of Khodorkovsky December 20, 2013 Ella Pamfilova After a rather boring four-hour traditional press conference, during which President Putin did not utter almost nothing new, the head of the country made a sensational statement. It turns out that Mikhail Khodorkovsky wrote a petition for pardon, which Putin intends to satisfy in the near future by issuing a corresponding decree.