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Hi, this is Navalny, and I still want to say a few words
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about the blogger Sokolovsky, arrested in Yekaterinburg
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for catching Pokémon in a church.
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A lot of people have already said the right things about how you cannot put someone
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in prison over such nonsense, and I wrote about it myself,
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but let's try to look at this from a different angle altogether.
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There are 4 investigators in the team working on the Sokolovsky case, and every day
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representatives of the Interior Ministry and the Investigative Committee in Sverdlovsk
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Region issue statements about him and put out press releases.
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Sokolovsky's home was searched, and his computers
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and other devices were seized; they found a pen with a video camera at his home, and now they are threatening
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to open yet another criminal case.
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Just look at how much of the police force has been diverted to investigating
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this truly shocking crime. The man was catching Pokémon!
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Why is this happening?
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Could it be because in Sverdlovsk Region there simply aren't any other crimes left
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being committed?
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And the police, the Investigative Committee, and the FSB (Russia's security service) simply have nothing else
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to do?
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Well then, let's just look at the official statistics.
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In one year, 462 intentional murders are committed in the region, which
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means that every single day one or
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two people are killed there.
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In one year, the region sees five thousand eight hundred ninety
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four especially serious crimes.
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And do you know how many unsolved crimes there are altogether
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in Sverdlovsk Region?
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29,859 over the past year,
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or 81 crimes a day. Committed and left unsolved.
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And you want to say that with numbers like these, they need to be dealing with
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the blogger Sokolovsky?
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Then let's ask a question —not ourselves, but the law enforcement
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agencies of Sverdlovsk Region: guys, you have 462 murders
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a year, a significant number of which remain unsolved.
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Please answer us this: do you create an investigative team for each of these
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murders, a team that includes
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4 investigators?
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For every case of rape or grievous bodily harm,
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do you write press releases and make statements to the press
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as well?
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Well, of course not.
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Not a single one of the truly dangerous crimes that
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actually concern the region's residents receives
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even ten percent of the effort that is being spent on
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fighting 22-year-old blogger Sokolovsky, whose entire crime
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consists, once again, of catching Pokémon.
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It is entirely possible that all of this is happening because
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the police, the FSB, and the Investigative Committee in Russia simply are not
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capable of carrying out their real task
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— fighting crime.
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That is why they have switched to hunting for extremists
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who liked the wrong posts on VKontakte (Russia's largest social network), or people like
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Sokolovsky.
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At the same time, I want to remind you separately that in terms of the number of
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police officers per capita, Russia ranks first
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in the world, while in terms of police
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effectiveness it ranks among the last.
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So overall, our law enforcement agencies are one enormous collection
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of idlers and freeloaders, and the Sokolovsky case
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is excellent proof of that.
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That's all from me.
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