The most important - and very deplorable - news of last week in Russia - the guilty verdict "to the Pokemon catcher in the temple" Ruslan Sokolovsky. As it seems to me from my Kiev faraway, three and a half years of imprisonment to the popular video blogger, albeit conditionally - an event with a big, big, fat negative sign.
In my deep conviction, it shows two things.
First, it is that Russia is going nowhere.
In a situation where - excuse me for the unwarranted pathos - all normal countries are literally stepping by leaps and bounds along the path of progress when a new scientific and technological revolution is taking place in the world, when almost every day we learn about the emergence of new high technologies, about sensational discoveries And inventions, the Putin regime pushes the country into the abyss of archaism, obscurantism and obscurantism.
Russia, and so lagging behind modern civilization, risks, alas, to fall behind forever.
Secondly, the verdict in the Sokolovsky case once again shows that the Constitution does not operate in Russia.
Moreover, that the power - in this case, its judicial branch - maliciously violates the basic law of the country.
The main charge, according to which Sokolovsky was found guilty, is the incitement of hatred and insult to the feelings of believers (although the list of charges was very long - obviously in the hope that the court would have the opportunity, on occasion, to condemn the boy if not for one thing or another).
Most of all, of course, the formulation contained in the verdict is shocking, that Sokolovsky's blog "contains information that contains signs of insulting the feelings of adherents of Christianity and Islam, formed through the denial of the existence of God, the denial of the existence of the founders of Christianity and Islam - Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad ".
This, gentlemen, is not even a repetition of the notorious "monkey processes" - this is not getting into any constitutional gates!.
This means that the court tramples on, at least a few articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. This means that in Russia, which is, according to Article 14 of the Constitution, a secular state in which each citizen, in accordance with article 28 of the Basic Law of the country, "guarantees freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, including the right to profess individually or in association with Others of any religion or not to profess any, freely choose, have and disseminate religious and other beliefs and act in accordance with them, "the denial of the existence of God is declared a criminal offense.
Exactly. Do not profess any religion - then do not believe in God. Hence, to consider that there is no God. And Article 29 of the Fundamental Law guarantees to every citizen the right to think freely about it and talk about it aloud.
The state (in this case, the court) is obliged - in accordance with the second article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation - to recognize, observe and protect, along with other rights and human freedom, this right and this freedom. Which the same article of the Basic Law proclaims the supreme value.
However, after all, Putin's regime does not care about the Constitution. The head of the regime, which is formally a guarantor of the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens, to this function from the very beginning, as they say, "scored", and does not particularly hide it. On the contrary, it flaunts that the Constitution is not written by the guarantor of the Constitution.
Does it make sense in this situation to appeal to the Basic Law of the Russian Federation? If the point is to do this, when, as many have already written, the field of Russian constitutional law resembles a cemetery, where on each tombstone one of the numbers of the first 64 articles of the Constitution is cut, which describes the fundamentals of the constitutional system, human and civil rights and freedoms in the Russian Federation?.
The meaning, I think, is, no matter what.
If anyone has forgotten, the human rights movement in the USSR, which eventually won, began with the demand for a communist regime to observe its own Constitution.
No matter how naive, idealistic and impracticable this requirement was not presented, there was no way to cover the communist regime.
New - well forgotten old. No need to reinvent the wheel. It is necessary to go the beaten path.
But what about the insult of the believer's feelings? With blasphemy, in the end? - will someone say who is happy with the conviction of Ruslan Sokolovsky?.
As for me, the feelings of a sincere believer are deeply intimate. A true Orthodox Christian, a Muslim or a Jew never puts them on display, does not compare them with the posts of popular bloggers who adhere to anti-clerical views, and certainly does not write in this regard denunciations to "competent authorities".
I was fortunate enough to know deeply religious people with roots going into the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia, and it's hard for me to imagine any of them as an active participant in the campaign for the exemplary punishment of Ruslan Sokolovsky.
And as for blasphemy - the fight against it, elevated to the rank of state policy, again, returns the country to the ideological Middle Ages, at the time of the Inquisition.
This is especially clear against the backdrop of the fact that almost all civilized countries of the world did not even yesterday or the day before, and at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century they returned to the ancient principle of Roman law: there should be no punishment for blasphemy.
Any god, believed in Roman law, is strong enough to punish the person who insulted him on his own, and the very idea of ??the need to protect God with the weak forces of people is already blasphemy.
However, the fools do not write the law. Especially - Roman law.
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