Henry Reznik put it best about the criminal cases of the past few days. They do not even fabricate cases anymore—they invent them outright. The “Bolotnaya case” was fabricated. But at least there was actually a rally there—the one they were talking about. They simply made up the “riots.” They found some “injuries” too: among all those arrested, one OMON riot policeman had a “chip in his tooth enamel” and another had a “broken pinky finger.” In the case of Udaltsov, Lebedev, and Razvozzhayev, the whole thing was simply invented. The FSB got some vague, meaningless fragment of a recording from the Belarusians. They handed it over to the prostitutes at NTV, who threw together forty minutes of trash and flashing headlines. And then this hellish “documentary film” becomes the subject of an official inquiry, and now three people have been detained, with no doubt that tomorrow they will be arrested. What did they do? What crime did they commit? Where is the evidence? Where, at the very least, is common sense? The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case against Sergei Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhayev, Konstantin Lebedev, and other persons on suspicion of a crime under Part 1 of Article 30 and Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, namely preparation to organize mass riots. The criminal case was opened following a review of the facts presented in the documentary film “Anatomy of a Protest – 2” concerning preparations for mass riots in Moscow and in other regions of the Russian Federation. http://sledcom.ru/news/162583.html It is nonsense. People are right to ask: why has no case been opened over NTV’s program "Mysterious Russia: Pskov Region. A Fiery Dog at the Gates of Hell?" A fiery dog at the gates and these mysterious “funds for organizing riots” somewhere out there—it is all the same. And it is especially wonderful that all these cases about “foreign money” are being opened by an official who conceals his real estate in the Czech Republic and Spain. All of this would be funny, if three more people had not ended up behind bars. We know who sent them there. Here he is personally:
We know why: to protect their own corrupt schemes. No one must be allowed to interfere with siphoning off resource rents and taking them to Switzerland. PS Here is more news coming in: ***A criminal case has been opened over the theft of funds from citizens who paid fees to participate in the elections to the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition ** The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation has received 64 statements from citizens claiming that an online resource, “cvk2012.org,” was created and contains information about elections to the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition to be held on October 20–21, 2012. Subsequently, acting out of self-interest and with the intent to steal money from an unspecified group of persons by abusing their trust, the creator of the resource organized, in regions of the Russian Federation including the city of Moscow, the collection of funds from citizens in the amount of 10,000 rubles per person (about 250 USD at the time) under the pretext of voluntary contributions for participation in elections to the said Coordinating Council. *http://genproc.gov.ru/news/news-78569/ Does our law enforcement system do anything other than go after the opposition? (Let me remind you that all three—Udaltsov, Lebedev, and Razvozzhayev—are running for the Coordinating Council.) You can drag things out for three years with VTB or Transneft and still no criminal case gets opened. But here—five minutes and it is done. Interestingly, the case was opened by the Moscow Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee, even though the contributions are formally being collected in Yekaterinburg. To make it faster, of course. They have to meet the standard: five minutes after a phone call. Our response should be even more active registration and verification. So that these crooks’ faces get even more twisted. Update: Udaltsov was in fact released under a travel restriction agreement, which is good news, but it does not change the point of this post. Lebedev remains in custody.