The pun "Having seized Dante’s library, Bastrykin set off through hell" will be trite by lunchtime — that’s how many times it will be repeated today.
But it’s impossible not to repeat it when reading the new manifesto-like article by the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee.
There is no point in analyzing it. It is the illiterate ravings of a plagiarist and a bogus doctor of sciences (roughly equivalent to a doctoral degree holder) ("By skillfully manipulating the enormous mass of dollars, the United States brings down the national currencies of developing countries").
Only two points are of any interest:
First, the open calls to change the constitutional order, introduce censorship, abolish the presumption of innocence, and so on.
Second, the lies and hypocrisy that seep through virtually every word. This article about the "U.S. hybrid war against Russia" was published in the middle of officials’ asset-disclosure campaign, from which we can clearly see that our "patriots" simply cannot shake their desire to own real estate on enemy territory. Behind enemy lines, so to speak.
Bastrykin’s patriots hurry off to Bulgaria, Spain, and Switzerland to rest from their victories in the hybrid war. They send their children to study in England.
And for some reason, absolutely no one wants to live in China, whose finest internet-censorship practices Mr. Bastrykin proposes to adopt. Perhaps because in China people are executed for corruption.
And do you remember why he is "Pan Bastrykin" ("pan" is a Polish/Czech form of address, used here mockingly)? Because of the undeclared apartment and residence permit in the Czech Republic, a NATO country. When the ACF (Anti-Corruption Foundation) exposed these facts, Bastrykin stayed silent for a week, and then said that at one time he had had no plans for government service — he wanted to move to quiet Czechia and "pursue academic work."
Then the plans changed, and government service — with its black cars, state dachas, and Panamanian offshore accounts — returned to the life of this "doctor of sciences," and now he churns out articles about the West’s hybrid wars against Russia.
P.S. Here’s another amusing trick for properly assessing Bastrykin’s article. Read a paragraph from his piece, then a paragraph from this ruling. It concerns the time when the "doctor of sciences" got drunk and threatened a passerby with a pistol.
It immediately becomes clear why they guard the existing political order so jealously. It is the rule of the worst, and under any other system they would be of no use.