“Chekist can be only
a man with a cool head,
a warm heart
and clean hands.”
Dzerzhinsky
In the autumn of 2024, after deliberately prolonged for two years court interrogations, which were conducted only on the initiative of the state prosecutor, where she questioned about a hundred witnesses chosen by her about the same circumstances that had nothing to do with the infliction of violence provided for in the articles of the indictment against us, the prosecutor finally declared that she no longer insisted on further questioning of the witnesses on the prosecution’s witness list.
And she is waiving the examination of all physical evidence.
This means that she does not need the information that is recorded in the Last Testament books, and the information that is on audio and video media, where everything that I have previously said in numerous meetings with all those who wished to hear it is recorded.
Although all the interrogations conducted by this prosecutor for two years were limited precisely to the question whether I expressed any recommendations or prohibitions in a particular direction during meetings with my followers, and how my followers acted in accordance with the Teaching I was revealing!
As the practice clearly showed, our prosecutor was only interested in the speculations of witnesses about what I had allegedly said twenty or thirty years ago.
Often the prosecutor herself provoked the questioned to give far-fetched explanations, asking them questions such as: ‘What do you think this is about?’ or ’How did others perceive it?’
Whereas the entire Teaching of the Last Testament, which is not forbidden and continues to be in the public domain, is based solely on what I have personally ever claimed and called for!
That is, the so-called physical evidence depicts the very real facts that the prosecutor spent two years trying to uncover in some strange way.
Did the representatives of the prosecution not have enough sense to familiarise themselves with the published facts of interest to them and not to stage for an absurdly long time something like a show of fools, meticulously identifying as evidence all sorts of delusions, rumours and outright slander?!
Or was it, nonetheless, a telling demonstration of the sad level of professionalism, intelligence and dishonour that exists in the investigative and prosecutorial system!
After the state prosecutor announced the completion of the study of the information of interest to her, the period began when now only the defence side has the right to initiate interrogations of the necessary witnesses and specialists, as well as to determine what information from the material evidence to disclose.
On 22 November at the scheduled court hearing we had to experience deep bewilderment from the behaviour of our, already familiar to you, prosecutor.
We have to observe the consequences of the active manifestation of psychological specificity, which is connected with the professional interest to constantly search for violations in the actions of someone, which inevitably imposes on the psyche of a person and his perception of reality an ever-increasing distorting imprint that disposes to unreasonable actions.
The loud statements made by the prosecutor from time to time at our court hearings, as a rule, were connected with the use of demonstratively peculiar information, which caused us only bewilderment as to what exactly in this information could be seen as illegal or unlawful.
Similarly, at the above-mentioned court hearing, where we had to proceed to the interrogation of the defence witness, our wonderful artist Goncharov, who had come to the court, our prosecutor, just before the start of his interrogation, stood up resolutely and made a strange statement from the standpoint of sanity and legality.
She stated in court that, walking along the corridor of the courthouse, she personally saw how the previously questioned witness for the defence, whom she for some reason confidently designated under someone else’s surname Rags, allegedly coordinated the testimony with Goncharov.
As we have learnt, at the moment mentioned by the prosecutor, our lawyer was in the same corridor with Goncharov and Kolmykov, where they were together looking at an album with reproductions of my paintings.
At Goncharov’s request, Kolmykov had brought him this album to help him in his court appearance, and they even offered the prosecutor, who was passing by them, to look at these reproductions, which she hastily refused.
And what, in fact, did we have to hear in court from the mouth of our public prosecutor, who, according to his professional duty, is called upon to supervise the observance of the law?!
Not only did our state prosecutor for some reason draw attention to the unrestricted opportunities for the defence witnesses, who were together in the courthouse, to interact with each other, but also, which became especially discouraging, voiced her own false speculations about what she had seen, without mentioning the fact that our lawyer was in that group of communicators, who in principle has the right to coordinate with such witnesses whatever she considers necessary!
What a familiar story!
Our accusation is based on exactly this type of shamelessly contrived nonsense, which the instigators of the prosecution have collected in huge quantities with insane frenzy, having interrogated weak-willed lovers of mindless condemnation and spreading slander.
The interest in labelling someone guilty about anything, without making any effort to objectively comprehend the information that helps to justify that person, is a clear sign of mental unhealthiness!If a person who is trying to accuse someone begins to feel irritable and dissatisfied because some facts that are revealed break his accusatory notion, then such a circumstance can only speak of an unseemly deformation of his personality in a moral and ethical sense, which always implies the presence of an increased tendency in such a person to act dishonestly, shamelessly and meanly towards another person!
During this period, when our lawyers had gained the right to take the initiative in pursuing the opportunities available to the defence, a peculiar circumstance came to light that is an indication of the lack of common sense in our trial and speaks of the original intention to keep us in custody as long as possible.
When the defence lawyers began to question the witnesses called on our side, we were repeatedly puzzled to hear the prosecutor’s rejoinder expressing her confusion as to why we were inquiring into circumstances not relevant to the substance of the charges against us.
Wow!!! And how would it be appropriate to qualify the reasonableness of such professional oddities, if the same circumstances that the prosecutor for two years considered it appropriate to persistently clarify for herself were also clarified by the defence lawyers, but already on the basis of the interrogation of defence witnesses?!
If the prosecutor, during the court interrogations, began to persistently clarify strictly defined circumstances, it could mean that she was ready to use the obtained evidence in her final prosecution.
And, accordingly, it became logical on our part to emphasise the same circumstances in the interrogations in order to show a picture based on the testimony of real eyewitnesses, as opposed to testimony based on speculation and rumours.
During the questioning of the so-called prosecution witnesses, which since the beginning of the trials have been conducted only at the initiative of the prosecutor, our lawyers repeatedly tried to draw the court’s attention to the unreasonable prolongation of procedural time due to the fact that the prosecutor devotes all the time of the questioning to finding out what we are not guilty of and does not correlate with the charges against us.
The prosecutor reacted emotionally by saying that if the investigator left such circumstances, it means that they are correlated with the charge and she will express the necessary correlation at the stage of arguments.
And now, when the defence lawyers in turn began to question the defence witnesses on the same circumstances, the prosecutor suddenly began to make a caveat about not understanding the interest of the defence lawyers, as she did not see any correlation between the information they received and the substance of the charge.
Wow… Either the prosecutor was initially unable to professionally realise that the circumstances she was finding out were completely inconsistent with the causation of violence implied by the substance of the charge, or she was consciously playing her role in the inhuman delay of the trial, hypocritically creating the appearance of expedient necessity of the information revealed to prove the charge?!
Now it becomes interesting to examine in detail the accusatory statement of this public prosecutor, which is to take place at the final stage of the trial, when the debate of the parties will begin! In her presentation at this stage, the prosecutor will have to substantiate the charges with the arguments she has identified during the interrogations.
It is very curious, what concrete facts will the prosecutor use to justify the unlawful causation of mental violence, if the likelihood of any violence was not mentioned in a single word by any of the huge number of witnesses questioned?!
According to the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, all irremovable doubts in court should be interpreted only in favour of the accused!!!
But this, of course, if the representatives of justice will respect and be guided by such legal norms!
What we had to observe during the absurdly long period of our detention in the pre-trial detention centre contributed to the formation of just a persistent perception of the large-scale viciousness of the justice system, where speculation, rumours and outright slander were confidently and with impunity used as the main arguments to prove the charges, contrary to the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation!
And all this, as it turns out, is successfully working on an amazing scale!
All you need to know is that you can choose any person and then skilfully encourage someone to point a finger at that person and give the necessary testimony…
No more facts to support the accusation are required!!!
The accusatory fantasy of the investigator is enough to elect a measure of restraint in the form of arrest, and this fact will create a high guarantee of a conviction.
Or at least, it is exactly the demonstration of such savage unlawfulness that we have witnessed with our own eyes in our criminal prosecution and in the numerous examples we have had to meet during more than four years in custody in the pre-trial detention centre.
And all this despite the fact that during this period of our stay in prison and more than two years of court proceedings, which are still pending, no one has ever been able to tell us what specific unlawful act any of us committed! We can say with certainty that even after all the court interrogations of the so-called victims, when, it would seem, some clarity should have already appeared, when she is asked directly about such specificity, the public prosecutor will not be able to express anything intelligible, which could really be consistent with the imputed article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in connection with which we are persistently being kept in custody.
Unfortunately, it is precisely this kind of insane illegality that is being successfully implemented with impunity and on a grand scale, generating an all-encompassing hatred and distrust of everyone in Russia!
It is as if someone, either deliberately or from a lack of intelligence, has started a conveyor belt of mass arrests on invented charges. In your egoistic preoccupation with your career growth and self-importance, you – in pursuit of the indicators you set – have become ready to massively falsify charges and on this vile basis sacrifice anyone and in any number!
The enemies of the integrity of this country can only applaud such short-sighted accomplices!
It is a misfortune for society when professionals with a hot head, cold heart and dirty hands become responsible for its security, law enforcement and judicial system! If you generate a wave, prepare for its return!
All final speeches at the stage of debates, which are the speeches of the state prosecutor and defence lawyers, and subsequently the text of the judge’s verdict, will inevitably become historically significant when the content of these speeches will be carefully assessed and remembered for a very long time!
The result of the conclusion of our trial will predetermine many socially significant processes not only in Russia, but also in many nations of the world!
Vissarion, 17.12.24 г.