THE
BLACK BOOK OF RUSSIA
The "Public Expertise Institute" and the "United
civil front" newspaper have launched the joint project
called "The Black Book of Russia". It is the list
of our contemporaries who, by means of their concrete actions
(or inactivity) inflict a sufficient damages on people and
the society, who destroy legal and moral status of the country.
For what are we doing that?
Making the lists of the bastards is not the most pleasant
process. But it is even more disgusting to observe how these
crowds of bastards are skipping on the career ladders, filling
the political Olympus; how all of them have together got
into the TV and from there teach us how to live; how they
pass the laws; how they judge us and how they sufficiently
narrow our vital space.
We wish to list THEM by names, in order for THEM to understand:
we know, that THEY are bastards, and that we can prove it.
In order for us to know that we cannot shake THEIR hands
under any circumstances. To force them to leave from their
official positions, from which they can influence our destiny.
The overall objective of the project is to revive the institute
of reputation in Russia.
How do we do it?
Selection into the "black list" is based of four
criteria:
First, it should be the socially significant act having
the consequences extremely dangerous to a society and contradicting
the law, morals and principles of humanism.
Secondly, the person who has made such an act should be
a public person, meaning that he must be either the representative
of authority, or the public figure, or the politician.
Thirdly, it should be the alive and free person. We should,
to a lesser extent, worry about reputation of those, who
have already been punished by God and Law.
Fourthly, the act should be accomplished not earlier than
2000. We are not going to condemn once again those who persecuted
Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn.
Lists are made on several nominations. Today we start to
publish the materials on two of them.
"The black Themis" nomination opens by the judge
of the Belgorod regional court, Mr. Victor Koshmanov who,
on 20th December 2001 pronounced a verdict of guilty to
Ms. Olga Kitova, the independent deputy and the journalist.
It is the unique story even on the general background of
the Russian justice. Olga Kitova, the deputy of the regional
Duma, the columnist of the "Belgorodskaya Pravda"
newspaper, was known as the legal expert and the author
of numerous sharp journalistic investigations, which stirred
the Belgorod authorities more and more.
The task was put forward not to admit Kitova to elections
into new structure of the Belgorod's Duma raised in Autumn,
2000. The pretext for punishment of Kitova became the journalistic
investigation published by her on May, 2000 in the "Belgorodskaya
Pravda". The article proved that the group of the Belgorod's
first-year students was accused of a crime which they not
only did not commit, but which was not committed at all.
The story about falsifications and tortures in "law-enforcement"
bodies shook the whole region. The boys were released, and
the whole administrative-judicial machine of the Belgorod
region started attacking Kitova. Illegal arrests, beatings
(down to reanimation) and, at last, three criminal clauses
under Criminal code: hindrance to investigation of criminal
case (the very case which was a bluff), slander, insults,
and, at last, charge that "deputy Kitova has beaten
unmercifully the group of police officers". (It is
the public prosecutor's version of that episode after which
small and slim journalist has been brought to reanimation
on a stretcher).
The culmination of this lawlessness was the verdict of
the Belgorod regional court signed by Victor Koshmanov:
to find guilty on all accounts, to sentence to 2, 5 years
of conditional punishment and to penalties. And the most
improbable, that was an overall objective of persecution
and that it is necessary to quote: "To forbid citizen
Olga Kitova to be selected into representative bodies of
legislature". Then there were three years of struggle
of lawyers, of the Russian and international journalistic
community. And, finally, there was a victory: on June 16th,
2004 the Supreme Court has completely acquitted Olga Kitova,
it decided to collect in her advantage the sum of 308, 458
roubles from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation,
and finally the Court obliged the public prosecutor of Belgorod's
region to make public apologies to Kitova for its illegal
prosecution. On July 24th, 2004 the international premium
of freedom of press has been handed over to Olga Kitova
in the Central House of Journalist (Moscow).
Victor Koshmanov today continues to work as the judge of
the Belgorod regional court.
Nomination "The Black Politicians" starts with
20 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation,
signed the notorious appeal, directed to the General Public
Prosecutor of the Russian Federation on January 13th, 2005,
published under the name "The Jewish happiness and
the Russian tears … " The basic purpose of the appeal
is "the prohibition of all religious and national Jewish
associations as extremist ones ", suppression of Judaism
dissemination as "the religion, inflaming Jewish hatred
to the other population of Russia". And they do not
mean the concrete charges addressed to concrete persons
or organizations. The signatories demand "to stop dissemination
of the given religion", ALL Jews are declared as "provocateurs
and misanthropes", and "Judaism" appears
as the 'form of Satanism
The further citing of this document is impossible because
of hygienic reasons.
The given text puts signatories in one line with organizers
of the Holocaust.
Among signatories there are different people, but presence
of 20 State Duma Deputies in this company makes this appeal
the extremely dangerous, "legitimizes" similar
views and actions, and forces us to publish once again their
surnames, because presence of these people in the politics
and, furthermore, in the State Duma is dangerous to all
us. Here are their names (the list is published in the newspaper
of "Izvestiya"):
