The criminal case opened against me after my post "How Money Is Siphoned Off at Transneft" has happily come to an end. The document is dated April 10, but we decided to wait and see whether the ruling would hold up at the prosecutor’s office and whether higher-level divisions of the Investigative Committee would overturn it. Everything is fine. So it turns out I’m not some villain who stole a forest:
and I am even entitled to an apology and full rehabilitation:
Dozens of people were questioned, and several expert examinations were carried out. This pointless, trumped-up case ended in nothing. All that happened was that two senior investigators for major cases from the Investigative Committee in Kirov Region wasted a huge amount of time and resources on it instead of spending them on real gangsters, murderers, or crooks. Today I sent the following statement to the Prosecutor General:
But much more importantly, another case just as senseless—and far more disgusting—is being cooked up right now. Do you see this girl?
She is 18 years old, and her name is Alexandra Dukhonina. Apparently, she is a highly dangerous criminal. She allegedly organized riots and used violence against government officials. Here she is again. In the process of organizing unrest.
Yesterday she was detained and placed in custody. Various Kremlin trash are screeching, pointing to this video and saying, "See, there she is, throwing stones at the police." Well then, take a look:
http://youtu.be/mdjxY7dnJoE Even if that stone did travel three meters (about 10 feet)—which I doubt—there is no evidence that it hit anyone or caused any harm. There are clearly nowhere near enough facts here to keep a person locked up. And we most certainly have a million pieces of evidence showing that police officers committed far more unlawful acts during the events of May 6, and that they posed a far greater danger to society than an 18-year-old kid with a stone. But we hear nothing about any criminal cases being opened. No one has been arrested either. Apparently no one is as dangerous as Alexandra Dukhonina, who, of course, is sure to start intimidating witnesses and obstructing the investigation. I myself was questioned in this case—they specifically brought me in from the special detention center. I was questioned by—attention!—the deputy head of the First Directorate for the Investigation of Especially Important Cases (crimes against the person and public safety) of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow, in the presence of the head of the First Directorate for the Investigation of Especially Important Cases (crimes against the person and public safety) of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow. That does not happen often. A special investigative task force has also been set up, with a huge number of people and resources involved. And this is in Moscow, where contract killings, robberies, and violent muggings happen several times a day, go unsolved for years, and are eventually written off as "cold cases." But the moment people outraged by election fraud came out to protest, the finest detectives immediately pulled out their magnifying glasses and textbooks on deductive reasoning. A disgrace. There is now a fundraiser underway for Dukhonina’s defense.