Zakhar will be the angriest about the consequences of yet another search of my apartment. He had just finished first grade with good marks and was supposed to receive the old iPad for his exclusive use, but instead the coveted gadget ended up in the hands of the “law enforcement authorities.”
Everything is business as usual for me: Chaika (Yury Chaika, Russia’s former prosecutor general) badly wants a new criminal case against me, to get even for our investigation into his family. Putin supports the idea—after all, a new case guarantees that I won’t be able to take part in the elections, even as we keep winning cases at the ECHR. The prosecutor’s office has already started sending letters to all state-owned companies as part of a “secret inquiry”: give us dirt on Navalny.
No dirt. So they urgently open a completely ridiculous case instead (it was launched the very day the “victim’s” complaint was filed). Then they carry out a search under that pretext, seizing all the electronics so they can dig through them and try to find something interesting.
And that’s exactly what they took: computers, iPads, phones, flash drives, hard drives, and even routers. What any of this has to do with the case is unclear.
There’s a camera hanging by the door, and it has a device that records everything. They seized that too.
“Why,” I asked, “are you seizing this drive?” “Because it is an electronic item that could have been used to write defamatory statements on the internet.”
Right, of course.
They took Dasha’s phone and computer too. It was her first time going through a search, but she handled herself brilliantly. She just sat there calmly reading *Pride and Prejudice* the whole time—a very good choice, by the way, for an occasion like this.
Journalists are calling now with the traditional question: Will this affect your anti-corruption investigations?
And I have the traditional answer for everyone: Yes, it will. We’ll be angrier, and we’ll try to make them even better.
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