Well, the *Kirovles-2* trial has gone straight into full-on hell mode.
The judge rejected our motions to terminate the criminal prosecution and send the case back to the prosecutor's office.
After that, we filed a motion to recuse the judge: the presiding judge in this case, Vtyurin, is a direct subordinate of Judge Blinov—a criminal offender who handed down an unlawful ruling, the unlawfulness of which has been confirmed by the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) and the Presidium of the Supreme Court.
At that point, Vtyurin simply ran out of the courtroom, saying that the hearing would continue tomorrow, and then every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
What this means:
An obvious provocation and a deliberate conflict. The judge knows perfectly well that my lawyers have hearings in Moscow tomorrow. Mikhailova, in particular, is involved in the Nemtsov case, which has a jury and a higher court involved. She definitely will not be able to attend tomorrow. The other lawyers can't either; all of them have official letters from the courts confirming this.
It's an attempt to deprive me of legal defense. Obviously, I am not going to take part in the proceedings without the lawyers who previously won my case. That would be stupid, wouldn't you agree?
Ofitserov only has one defense lawyer at all—and she has a hearing tomorrow at the Moscow Garrison Court, with all the relevant documents to prove it.
Until now, no matter how biased the court was against me, judges always at least tried to coordinate the hearing date properly. Even when they were in a great hurry. But this one literally ran out of the courtroom shouting that the hearing was tomorrow. It's sheer rudeness. It's completely obvious what's going on here: a provocation, so they can start messing around with forced appearances, travel restrictions, and arrests.
This abnormal haste can only mean one thing—they need to hand down a verdict as quickly as possible in order to strip me, once again, of the right to take part in elections.
I want to say the following: we are in this trial not because we wanted to be here or because we made some mistake. We are here because this Leninsky District Court handed down an unlawful verdict. In other words, because of these judges.
Everything ended three years ago, and after that the system did nothing to correct its own wrongdoing. And now, suddenly, they have discovered some great urgency. It's simply ridiculous.
I will not be in court tomorrow.
This entire system—of brazen thugs drunk on their own power, simply because another brazen, thieving thug gave them a judge's robe—must be destroyed.