Today is the court hearing involving anti-Maidan senator Sablin.
Let me remind you that this character first came to our attention after creating the Anti-Maidan movement and making loud declarations about his patriotism.
A review of his Candidate of Sciences dissertation (Sablin is, supposedly, a "Candidate" of "Economic" "Sciences") naturally showed that it was plagiarized.
A review of his assets also revealed the standard package for a Putin-era "patriot":
A gigantic undeclared mansion, bought with money from who knows where.
Several months later, we still have learned nothing about the origin of Sablin's money except the pathetic babble of "his wife earns it," but he has decided to join the fashionable new political trend of trying to extract money from me and is demanding 10 million rubles (about $110,000).
Funny, isn't it? He has the undeclared palace, but I'm the one they want to collect money from.
It all looks even more absurd against the backdrop of our similar lawsuits against Chaika: not a single court will accept them. So the justice on display is very one-sided.
The case will be heard by Judge Zotko, who sits at the Lyublinsky District Court apparently for the very purpose of granting claims like this. She has also handled the cases of Rudensky, Liksutov, Neverov, and others.
Our side is being represented by Ivan Zhdanov; here he writes about today's hearing.