I’ve just returned from Kirov, where I was questioned over the crime of the century. The questioning lasted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a lunch break. Everything was very civilized, proper, and carried out with all the required procedural formalities. At long last, they finally handed me the formal order opening a criminal case. It turns out that: the case was opened by the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation’s Main Investigative Directorate (!!!! I can be proud of myself) the same day, the case was sent to Kirov in Kirov, an investigative team was formed consisting of two colonels—investigators for especially important cases. So, as you can see, I’m a VIP suspect. The colonel who questioned me kept getting calls from the prosecutor’s office, because he was supposed to submit documents to the court in two murder cases. I got the impression that he was somewhat annoyed by my very existence and by the fact that, because of me, he had to take time away from investigating murders—his usual line of work. Still, he refrained from any comments or discussion unrelated to the questioning itself. I am accused of having coerced the state-owned enterprise "Kirovles" into signing a contract, thereby causing it damage in the form of lost profits amounting to 1.3 million rubles. It was impossible to find out how those lost profits were calculated, because the Prosecutor General’s Office had taken all the case materials away for review. This whole lost profits angle, by the way, is wonderful. I should look into it and file some crime reports: let the Investigative Committee’s Main Investigative Directorate also calculate Rosneft’s lost profits from its cooperation with Gunvor, or Gazprom’s lost profits from working with the Rotenberg brothers. I shouldn’t be the only one going in for questioning. Next time they’ll be summoning me for a face-to-face confrontation.