The search, detention and transfer to Moscow of Vyacheslav Maltsev, going under the second number in the list of the officially functioning political party PARNAS, was an extraordinary and very rare event in the political life of Russia. This unlimited escapade of the Kremlin and Lubyanka gave us another opportunity to bring Putin's regime to life, and make him feel the consequences of such an arrest. Boris Nemtsov had such opportunities when he was detained and arrested, while during his election campaign, when he was officially registered as a candidate for the post of the mayor of Moscow, but not a single Russian politician took advantage of his status and demanded from the international community a proper reaction.
Everything was as good as possible for the political capital of Maltsev, and with its correct behavior, for the first time we could receive the tools of participation of the international community in the internal political events of our state. But alas, Saratov's "oppositionist" turned out to be another Kremlin dummy, and his arrest for fifteen days speaks for himself. In fact, there was a mirror repetition of the "marsh", where selectively throughout the social spectrum of our society there are criminal prosecutions of ordinary citizens who must become the next scarecrows for the development of full-scale protests.
The trouble with our state is that unfortunately, today there are not any official political prisoners, since all persons taken into custody are in the proceedings in the status of suspects, accused and convicted on criminal charges. Even our top "oppositionists" participate in clearly politicized, unlawful and unlawful proceedings as defendants in criminal cases, using their procedural right to develop a strategy for their defense. The legal nihilism of our nation plays into the hands of the Putin regime, and it makes it easier for him to suppress all hotbeds of political resistance.
In the USSR, there was an ideology, and the state actually punished and subjected to repression in the form of criminal prosecution of Soviet citizens for ideological reasons, which automatically translated the captured people into political prisoners. In the Russian Federation there are no articles of the Criminal Code that would persecute people for political reasons, immediately making them political prisoners. Therefore, in order to qualify for the status of a political prisoner, in no event, under any pretext, one can not participate in the proceedings as a suspect, accused or convicted on a criminal or administrative charge. All protection must be built only in the ECHR, and if such a possibility is not available to a particular citizen, then this must be done through political comrades-in-arms or close relatives. Every political prisoner must at least have membership in a public or political organization so that regardless of the possibility of a repressed citizen, a public organization or political party could, by its own statutes, independently start recording the appearance of a political prisoner in international organizations and state structures of democratic legal states.
That is why there is no political opposition in Russia that would oppose the seizure and usurpation of power by a handful of Chekists. We have one and the same person detaining, planting, investigating, protecting, controlling, judging and verifying the legality of the whole process - this is the presidential administration. So let her do it without the participation of a politician or public figure who, in her craft, not only has the right to form, implement and call for peaceful, unarmed protest actions, but this activity is in fact the direct responsibility of a politician and public figure.
Also, I want to remind you once again that we do not have an independent institute of advocacy, and this body only legitimizes and legitimizes the powerlessness of power by its presence. If one asks any lawyer whether he can participate in an illegal unlawful procedural act by his status, which is declared legitimate and legitimate on behalf of the state, then the answer will be negative. Then what do they do in all legal proceedings where there is a continuous fabrication and falsification of criminal and administrative cases, and why is the lawyer's signature on all indictments sent to the courts of different jurisdictions for examination on the merits?.
In concluding my post, I would like to draw an instructive picture for all active Russians:
if in a democratic rule-of-law state the ruling government would hold the opposition politician to account for organizing a peaceful unarmed protest, then in this state we would see early elections, and those guilty In the usurpation of power and political reprisal over his competitors, would forever be deprived of the opportunity to engage in political activities and be in the public service.
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