Just like exactly a year ago, I’m posting this video again:
http://youtu.be/3xn93KZGLVY along with this tweet from then-President Medvedev:
No one has been found or punished. Surkov and Yakemenko, along with their thugs—who don’t even need to be searched for—still haven’t even been questioned. Meanwhile, the “law enforcement” agencies devour an unimaginably huge share of our budget, and no one surpasses Russia in the number of them per capita:
http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-heavily-policed-countries Update. Be sure to read Kashin’s interview about how the investigation is going: – Some people hoped that something new would come to light when Surkov was removed from office. – I had those hopes too. But apparently, because only Surkov was removed and only Yakemenko left, that whole milieu—the one pointed to by the investigative evidence, the circumstantial evidence, and all my suspicions—remained in place. The protagonists of all those stories about the Kremlin’s ties to “near-football” circles (football hooligan circles) are all still working and still getting paid. So those hopes remained unrealized (which is sad, because it’s sad to tie the resignation of a Kremlin official to the prospects of solving a criminal case). – Was anyone new questioned after Surkov’s dismissal? – No, no one. There was one name—it’s no secret—Roman Verbitsky, a Spartak hooligan who was very closely connected to Nashi (a pro-Kremlin youth movement), and his home was searched back under Medvedev. And in the summer, the same investigator, Ushchapovsky, citing security-service officers who had called him, said they would be glad to question him again, but unfortunately he had disappeared and FSB operatives couldn’t find him. Since Verbitsky and I have a number of mutual acquaintances who see him regularly, I called those acquaintances right there from the investigator’s office, clarified exactly where he could be found, and told the investigator. He pretended to be grateful for my help, but I never heard that Verbitsky was summoned for questioning. We see all these people who had at least some tangential connection to my case. The same Kristina Potupchik, whose home was also searched and who was also questioned in my case, and who, as far as I know, was trying to find my home address before the attack. Several people from Nashi and Young Guard (the youth wing of United Russia) were looking for me, as far as I know from my conversations with investigators. And that same Potupchik is doing just fine and working very well for the Kremlin’s new masters. – Is there anyone who has never been questioned, but who in your view should be? – Yakemenko himself, first and foremost. While the investigation was still ongoing, I raised this issue at every meeting with the investigator: for fuck’s sake, at least talk to him! http://slon.ru/russia/oleg_kashin_sledovatel_sidit_v_kabinete_i_zhdet_schastlivogo_sluchaya-1014712.xhtml