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Political power largely
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rests on the fact that it controls
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the judicial system. How are
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investigative teams formed for commissioned cases? I
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know that to get into the Higher
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School of the KGB, yes, through connections, yes, $25,000. I
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naturally speak with objections.
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Sitting opposite me is an investigator with the rank of
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major, recently promoted while already working on
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the Bolotnaya case (the prosecutions tied to Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square protests). I finish speaking
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and sit down. He whispers to me, “Vadim Vladimirovich,”
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“Brilliant speech. If you become one of us, will you support us?”
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Now, well, you understand. Tell me,
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please, is it true, or is it just gossip,
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that in Moscow courts every
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judge has an annual quota? Will you be able
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to question him? Of course. Let’s not, let’s not
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touch on that, because it’s a painful
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subject. It would be simply a grand-scale
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revolution in the judicial
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system.