The headline is exaggerated for clicks. Flaying judges is not предусмотрено by the criminal code, ~~unfortunately~~.
Nevertheless, there is Article 305 of the Russian Criminal Code:
And we have a legal fact, established by the European Court of Human Rights and recognized by the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (the country’s highest judicial authority): the verdict in the “Kirovles case” was not the result of a fair trial.
The ECHR states it in black and white (and the Supreme Court agrees): there was an arbitrary and unlawful interpretation of criminal law.
Therefore, this verdict was unjust.
Therefore, Judge Blinov, who acted with clear intent, must be held criminally liable. I believe he should go to prison, and I will pursue that.
And this is neither a political stance nor trolling of the judicial system. We have rock-solid legal grounds, and I am deeply convinced that this is exactly how we must approach both the judicial system and the specific judges who hand down unjust rulings every day.
There is no need to call them “cogs in the system” and feel sorry for them. These are dishonest, corrupt people drawing large salaries. For the sake of career advancement, a higher judicial rank, and a pay raise, they agree to openly break the law and commit serious official crimes.
They could refuse—no one is holding a gun to their head. They are willing to do it of their own accord for personal gain.
And the public consensus in the Beautiful Russia of the Future should be not that people like Blinov ought to be forgiven, but that they must face fair, lawful punishment and be tried by an honest court. This is not lustration, by the way, but simply the enforcement of existing law.
Today I am filing a crime report against Blinov, based on the facts established by the ECHR and the Presidium of the Supreme Court.
In addition, I am filing complaints against both Blinov and the entire appellate panel in the Kirovles case—their decision was also overturned by the Presidium of the Supreme Court as having nothing to do with a fair trial.
By the way, it is worth noting that Blinov himself clearly wants no reconciliation—he is eager to punish anyone who doubts his decisions. We have now received new case materials at the Supreme Court showing that, at his initiative, a criminal case was even opened over claims that someone had allegedly threatened to kill him.
Apparently me, since they are demanding an expert examination of recordings of my phone conversations (made, incidentally, after the verdict had already been issued).
And the prosecutors in the case were running around social media, looking for anyone who had insulted them somewhere, and opening criminal cases against people who wrote a couple of truthful words about them.
This is the first step toward normal justice: putting on trial those who turn justice into injustice.