In Strasbourg, unknown people tried to poison the famous lawyer Karina, who currently represents the interests of the relatives of the murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna. As Moskalenko told Gazeta.Ru, she suspected something was wrong a few days ago, when her health began to deteriorate sharply. “A cough appeared, everything was swollen,” the lawyer explained by phone (during the conversation, Moskalenko coughed dully, it was difficult for her to speak). Members of her family also felt very unwell - the lawyer lives in Strasbourg with her husband and three children. All had symptoms of poisoning - nausea, vomiting, headache.
Presumably, the cause of Moskalenko's illness was mercury spilled in the interior of her car.
“A substance similar to mercury was accidentally discovered on Sunday morning,” Sergey, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, told Gazeta.ru. The floor mats did not fit snugly against the floor of the car, and when they were moved, shiny liquid balls appeared under them. Moskalenko called the police. Arriving operatives collected the substance and sent it for examination, the results of which will be known one of these days. The local police have already opened a criminal investigation into the lawyer's poisoning.
The lawyer herself does not know how long the mercury was in her car. “We traveled a lot around the city and could breathe the fumes long time", - said Moskalenko. Now all the victims are being observed in the outpatient department of the hospital. “Based on the results of this examination, it will be known how to treat them further. It is possible that they will be hospitalized," Sokolov added.
Due to sudden health problems Moskalenko, apparently, will have to give up a number of appearances in the courts.
“Yesterday I was still able to speak at,” says the lawyer. But already on Wednesday she should be in Moscow for preliminary hearings on the murder of Politkovskaya. Now Moskalenko will not come. “She will not be able to attend this trial,” Sokolov says. - As far as I know, Politkovskaya's relatives and lawyers are considering petitioning to postpone the hearing to another day. But it hasn't been decided yet."
The defense of the defendants at the trial in the Politkovskaya case told Gazeta.ru that they would not object to new date meetings. “Usually, preliminary hearings are not postponed due to the absence of lawyers, but this is a very good reason,” said Murad, the defendant's lawyer. “If the representatives of the victims ask to postpone the hearing, we will definitely support them in this.” At tomorrow's meeting, it is planned to resolve issues of a procedural and organizational nature. “The most important question will be whether the trial will be closed or open,” Musaev specified. "Also, representatives of the parties have the right to submit their petitions."
It is still unknown who exactly and for what purpose spilled a suspicious substance in the lawyer's car. Moskalenko stressed that the police have this moment there are no versions as to who could have committed this crime.
The lawyer suggests that the poisoning attempt is related to her participation in the Politkovskaya case.
However, there are other possible reasons. “It is by no means certain that there was an attempt on her life because of the Politkovskaya affair,” Sokolov says. “Moskalenko led a number of high-profile cases, including representing the interests of Khodorkovsky and citizens who filed a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court.”
Karina Moskalenko is known for her victories over Russia in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Together with her team from the Center for International Protection, she has won about 30 cases, and more than 100 applications are pending.
In addition to Khodorkovsky, Moskalenko represented the ex-world chess champion leading a campaign against the Russian president, as well as victims of torture from Chechnya, relatives of those killed during the Beslan school siege, and survivors of the hostage-taking at Moscow's Nord-Ost theater center in 2002. A dissident killed in November in London in 2002 was her client for a short time when a Moscow court sentenced him in absentia. Moskalenko's efforts in 2006 earned her an award from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. In 2003, she was elected to the Swiss-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
In 2007, she tried to deprive Moskalenko of her lawyer status. She was accused of acting against Khodorkovsky's interests and of being negligent in studying his case with him. Khodorkovsky denied both of these accusations, saying that Moskalenko represented him in the European Court, while in Russia he was defended by other lawyers. Despite the recommendations of the prosecutors, the Council of the Chamber of Advocates refused to deprive Moskalenko of his professional status.
Founder of the Center for the Promotion of International Protection and head of its programs, lawyer at the Moscow City Bar Association, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Russian Committee of Lawyers for the Protection of Human Rights, member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. Honorary Doctor of Laws. Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists since 2003 and member of its executive committee since 2009.
She was born on February 9, 1954 in Baku. Father - Dadayan Akop Stepanovich (1923-1991). Mother - Bagadsarova Nina Alexandrovna (1923-1998). Spouse - Knyazev Evgeny Mikhailovich (born in 1953). Daughter - Ilyina Victoria Evgenievna (born in 1975), lawyer. Son - Rodion Evgenievich Knyazev (born in 1991), student of the Russian State Humanitarian University, daughter - Anastasia Evgenievna Knyazeva (born in 2005), student of the school, son - Grigory Evgenievich Knyazev (born in 2006), school student. Karinna has a grandson and a granddaughter.
Karinna's father served in the missile forces, and her childhood years were spent in military garrisons. After leaving school in the city of Ostrov Pskov region, where her father commanded a division, she entered the law faculty of the Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov (1971–1976). All her student years, according to her own assessment, she was distinguished by rare naivety and faith in the Soviet justice system - she was an "idealist with burning eyes": she entered the law faculty in order to work in the prosecutor's office and fight crime. During the first three courses, she worked as an assistant to the senior investigator for particularly important cases at the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office.
Her favorite teacher was Polina Solomonovna Elkind, who gave students an idea of the adversarial nature of the trial, the presumption of innocence. The direct persistent recommendations of Polina Solomonovna, the appointment of Karinna to the role of a lawyer in the educational process, reoriented her to the “defensive” sphere and eventually led her to the bar.
In connection with the transfer of her father to a new place of service, Karinna Moskalenko moved to Moscow and on September 1, 1977, she entered the Moscow City Bar Association (MGKA), of which she is a member to this day. Already the first year of work in the legal profession was enough to understand all the flaws of the existing judicial system. However, this only strengthened her confidence that in order to improve the legal foundations of society, a huge effort would be required.
In 1994, Karinna Moskalenko graduated from the course of European law at the University of Birmingen (Great Britain), in different years she trained in the largest organizations implementing programs for the protection of human rights (London Center for the Protection of Individual Rights in Europe, University of Essex, Canadian Foundation for Human Rights, Danish Center for Human Rights, etc.). Today, along with the criminal process, her specialization is public international law, in particular, the international protection of human rights.
After many years of working as a lawyer, Moskalenko came to the conclusion that in criminal cases in our courts it is extremely difficult to achieve proper justice, and it is almost impossible to get an acquittal (at one of the critical moments in the Supreme Court, her famous thesis “I will complain to the UN!” ). A caring person, with bare nerves and indefatigable energy, Karinna realized that “it’s impossible to live like this any longer,” and began to look for a way out of a seemingly hopeless situation.
In 1997, Karinna Moskalenko created the International Protection Assistance Center - a public human rights organization that brings together professional lawyers, which uses international mechanisms for the protection of human rights. From that moment on, we can talk about the beginning of a new stage in domestic human rights activities: Russians have practical access to international bodies for the protection of violated human rights.
In 1997, Karinna, along with 3 Russian human rights activists, was invited to Strasbourg for a session of the International Commission of Jurists. In 1999, after evaluating the contribution of the Center for the Promotion of International Protection to human rights activities, the ICJ awarded the Center the status of the Russian branch of the Commission.
Karinna Moskalenko became famous as a lawyer because of her participation in a number of high-profile cases that had a great resonance in Russia and abroad.
In 1998, the first 2 decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee on the admissibility of applications to the UN from Russian citizens, whose interests were represented by the Center, were received. In 2000, the Human Rights Committee made the first decision on the merits of a human rights complaint, which satisfied the claims of the complainant represented by the Center - Russian citizen Dmitry Gridin was recognized as a victim of an unfair trial. Another decision on the violation of the right to life was taken in the case of Vladimir Lantsov, an accused who died in a Moscow pre-trial detention center.
In September 2001, the first public hearing of the Russian case was held at the European Court of Human Rights, and Karinna Moskalenko became the first Russian lawyer to appear before the European Court in Strasbourg. In this sensational case of the former director of the bank Valery Kalashnikov, a decision was made in favor of a Russian citizen, where it was recognized that the conditions of more than 4 years of detention of Valery Kalashnikov in custody were inhuman and degrading, the term of pre-trial detention itself was excessive, and the duration litigation is disproportionately lengthy. Now several hundred more cases prepared by the Center are at the stage of communication in the European Court of Human Rights. Since then, Karinna Moskalenko has appeared before the European Court in five cases, three of them in the Grand Chamber.
Karinna Moskalenko gained particular popularity after the successful completion of the mission to free Russian pilots from an Indian prison. Lawyer Moskalenko spent a year and a half of her life practically without getting out of planes and the Calcutta prison. Five Russian pilots living in Latvia were arrested on charges of waging war against India and could be sentenced to death. In fact, their entire fault lay in the fact that, at the suggestion of their airline, they entered into a contract for the carriage of goods, completely unaware that on one of the trips in 1996 they were disguised as technical equipment load weapons that international criminals will drop in the Purulia district of the state of Bengal. Moreover, the criminals managed to escape literally in front of the very nose of the Indian special services. Our pilots, defenseless, unaware of anything and who told the investigation the whole truth, were threatened to spend their whole lives in the horrific conditions of an Indian prison, but after 4.5 years they were released.
Here it should be noted that Karinna Moskalenko divides her life into two parts - before and after baptism, which changed her attitude and attitude to life. Faith gave her strength, perseverance in the most hopeless, it would seem, situations. In the case of our pilots captured in India, Father Dionisy Pozdnyaev, the priest of the parish to which Karinna belongs, turned to Moskalenko - he knew that she would spare no effort to help in the release of the innocent.
An international committee for humanitarian aid was urgently created, headed by the rector of MGIMO A. Torkunov, which included Father Dionysius, K. Moskalenko, lawyer A. Stavitskaya, Karinna’s colleague in many human rights cases, G. Kovrizhenko, deputy chairman of the Russian UN Association. Whoever helped the Committee: Valentina Tereshkova, who decided on the placement of our lawyers in Calcutta, the Aeroflot airline, which carried out their flight to India, the parishioners of Father Dionysius who collected money, the Russian and Latvian Foreign Ministries.
In the summer of 2000, the pilots were released - they were saved from death, Karinna was literally carried by the arms after a severe spinal injury to a long-awaited meeting with former prisoners at Sheremetyevo ...
It took Moskalenko 16 months to restore justice (which, in essence, also meant saving a human life) in another well-known case: in the Butyrskaya prison, in a cell for the so-called "unclaimed defendants", after severe injuries, the unknown Ivan Chushkin was slowly dying. A middle-aged man was accused of murdering an old neighbor in a communal apartment, with whom he lived in perfect harmony for many years. Shortly before this, a neighbor from the third room of the same communal apartment was killed, and Chushkin remained the only tenant in a very, very attractive living space.
When Chushkin had already spent many months in the cell, the Presnensky Court mysteriously “lost” everything to the last page of this case. Karinna Moskalenko had to make an enormous effort to get the defendant brought to her, who stubbornly pleaded not guilty.
Moskalenko, meanwhile, sought out a request from the local police department about whether Chushkin could be discharged from the apartment. Everything became clear: having "forgotten" the old man, he was simply punished for his intractability, - they say, we will rot you in prison anyway. Only as a result of powerful lawyer pressure, the prosecutor of the Presnensky district decided to release Ivan Chushkin from custody. The criminal case against him was dropped.
Several times Moskalenko was invited to the pre-reform NTV to represent the interests of the applicants in the program “The Court is Coming”. Her trustees were people who were not afraid to challenge the system: Viktor Malichenko from the Nizhny Novgorod region, who raised the question of the illegitimacy of the existence of sobering-up centers as a place of legalized torture, and many others.
Later, another program appeared on TVC - “The case is being heard”. At first, Karinna was invited to her usual role as a lawyer - the representative of the applicant. But one day the creative team of the program invited her to try herself in an unexpected role for her - the role of a judge leading the program. With some surprise, she agreed.
In one of the programs, the parties were presented as "difficult" people and, let's say, almost devoid of the talent to find a compromise. The question concerned the fight against drug addiction and attitudes towards people who use drugs. The side that proposed aggressive methods of combating this evil was represented by V. Zhirinovsky. The process began - disputes, screams, almost hand-to-hand. The referee must stop this bedlam. The blow of the judge's gavel, a pause ... and then follows Karinna's strong-willed reminder to the audience why they are here at all: “The country is seriously ill. Today we are considering an issue that means too much to allow ourselves to clow around against the backdrop of a terrible topic, to put on performances, to introduce ourselves. After that, both Mr. Zhirinovsky and his opponents fell silent and took their seats.
The transmission rating was very high. But soon Karinna was removed from the program - they simply stopped calling, and the program itself soon closed. Since then, she has been invited to various programs on the TV channels RTVI, Dozhd, Zakon TV.
Karinna Moskalenko is the author of a number of works devoted to the protection of human rights using international legal mechanisms, including the book “International Protection” published in 2001 (now in its fourth edition), in 2009 the book “The Right to Freedom and personal integrity” and other publications. For many years, Karinna has been doing great lecture work in Moscow, Strasbourg, Geneva, Yerevan, Tbilisi, and at various US universities. 2010 - Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy high school Economics.
Karinna is a member of the Russian Committee of Lawyers for the Protection of Human Rights (1993), the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russian Federation(1999), Moscow Helsinki Group (1999). She was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "For the Protection of Human Rights" (1999) and the highest legal award "Themis-2000". From 2002 to 2005 he was a long-term expert of the TACIS program of the European Union. In 2003 she was elected Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.
Karinna Moskalenko remains a great optimist and dreamer, she hopes to live to see the time when Russian judges become the same as the judges of the European Court - highly professional, incorruptible, fair and, most importantly, independent. And the activities of the Russian judiciary will comply with the generally recognized principle: justice must not only be administered - it must also be seen that it is being administered.
Karinna Moskalenko as a professional high level gives the impression of a person created exclusively for work. But this impression is deceptive: when business allows, Karinna takes care of maintaining the hearth with pleasure, gathering children and grandchildren around her.
For several years, in parallel with her work in the legal profession, Karinna was seriously interested in theater. In the theater-studio "On Lesnaya" for 9 years she played roles in performances based on the plays "Strange Mrs. Savage" by J. Patrick, "The Bells" by G. Mamlin, "Point of View" by V. Shukshin, in the vaudeville "To the barrier, my sir "and other productions. Among her other hobbies are scuba diving, tourism, music, singing with a guitar.
Lives in Moscow.
She is a doctoral student at the University of Strasbourg.
Awards
1999 - Award of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "For Human Rights"
2000 - the highest legal award Themis
Order "For fidelity to lawyer's duty"
2006 - Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association
2007 – International Helsinki Federation Recognition Award
2008 - Brennan Prize, University of New Jersey, USA
2010 - Honorary Doctor of Laws from Southern Methodist University (USA, Texas, Dallas)
2010 - Ludovic Trarier International Human Rights Prize.
She also took internships in organizations implementing programs for the protection of human rights (London Center for the Protection of Individual Rights in Europe, the University of Essex, the Canadian Foundation for Human Rights, the Danish Center for Human Rights, etc.). Since September 1, 1977 - an intern (with lawyer Boris Efimovich Zmoiro), then a lawyer of the Moscow City Bar Association (since 2002 - the Bar Association of Moscow). Specialization - criminal procedure, public international law (including international protection of human rights). She participated in the television programs “The Court is Coming” (on the Russia TV channel), “The Case is Heard” (on the TVC TV channel). In the 1990s, Karina Moskalenko led the complex case of five pilots - residents of Latvia, Russians by nationality - who were accused of participating in the war against India.
Moskalenko, Karinna Akopovna
In September 2001, the first public hearing of the Russian case was held at the European Court of Human Rights, and Karinna Moskalenko became the first Russian lawyer to appear before the European Court in Strasbourg. In this sensational case of the former director of the bank Valery Kalashnikov, a decision was made in favor of a Russian citizen, where it was recognized that the conditions of more than 4 years of detention of Valery Kalashnikov in custody were inhuman and degrading, the term of pre-trial detention itself was excessive, and the duration litigation is disproportionately lengthy.
Now several hundred more cases prepared by the Center are at the stage of communication in the European Court of Human Rights.
Moskalenko Karinna Akopovna
When I heard their decision, I was just in Kyrgyzstan, holding a seminar on the international protection of human rights, they told me this news, I said: I ask you to convey my deepest respects to my colleagues. I know that in protecting me, they themselves are at risk. And yet, they spoke out so clearly, definitely, professionally, clearly and competently that they left no room for the authorities to continue this persecution.
Another thing is that the authorities will not stop. The first time they raised the issue of depriving me of my status back in September 2005, today we live in 2007, they came up with this idea again. They persecute my organization Center for International Protection on all fronts, people do not feel protected, but at the same time people protect, represent the interests of our citizens, help thousands, provide qualified advice, refer cases to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Sergei Brovchenko: The case of Boris Kuznetsov is a show trial in which we can see how the rights and opportunities for the professional activities of lawyers are limited in today's Russia. The problem of lawyers' independence is directly related to his safety.
The example that we have in the case of Boris Kuznetsov is a classic reminder to all lawyers that it is not necessary, in accordance with the law, to apply and trust our courts. Boris Kuznetsov paid the price for his actions, which he took in the interests of the client, in the interests of justice.
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So it was in my case, so it was in the case of the lawyer Trepashkin, who also paid the price for his professional activities and is now serving a term in the Nizhny Tagil colony and calls for the protection of his rights by all available legal methods. Vladimir Kara-Murza: We are listening to a question from St. Petersburg from radio listener Alexander.
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The Khodorkovsky case[edit | edit code] Karinna Moskalenko, one of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyers, was invited to represent his interests at the international level, in particular, in the European Court of Human Rights. The statement of the members of the Moscow Helsinki Group dated June 9, 2007 cites the facts of the persecution of Karinna Moskalenko undertaken by the state authorities during the period of work on this case: In particular, this is an attempt to deprive K.
Moskalenko’s lawyer status, which was unsuccessful earlier, and petitions before the European Court of Human Rights to remove her from representing the interests of the applicants in the European Court, and tax audits of the International Protection Assistance Center in order to demoralize its activities and create a threat of its closure, which are not completed until still... K.
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This is an indicator that, alas, in today's conditions, democratic institutions in our country do not work. But it seems to me that the lawyer community itself is to blame here.
The fact is that there are many qualified and literate people among lawyers, many of them thought that they could live without politics, without speaking out and participating in public and political life, many were dominated by economic interests. Life has shown that such a policy sooner or later leads to damage to the immediate professional activities of a lawyer.
That is, no one will be able to stay away from politics today. Vladimir Kara-Murza: Did you personally feel the solidarity of the lawyers' community when you experienced repressions? Karina Moskalenko: How grateful I am to my colleagues.
In 1994, Karinna Moskalenko graduated from the course of European law at the University of Birmingen (Great Britain), in different years she trained in the largest organizations implementing programs for the protection of human rights (London Center for the Protection of Individual Rights in Europe, University of Essex, Canadian Foundation for Human Rights, Danish Center for Human Rights, etc.). Today, along with the criminal process, her specialization is public international law, in particular, the international protection of human rights.
After many years of working as a lawyer, Moskalenko came to the conclusion that in criminal cases in our courts it is extremely difficult to achieve proper justice, and it is almost impossible to get an acquittal (at one of the critical moments in the Supreme Court, her famous thesis “I will complain to the UN!” ).
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Today we feel much less protected, and the courts allow themselves to talk to lawyers and give orders, and so on. But today I am more confronted with the fact that the so-called lawyers, I call them degenerates or werewolves who came from the investigation, constantly keep in touch with their former colleagues, are recommended to our future clients as the best lawyers, and persuade their clients to agree with the investigation.
Today this is a terrible category of cases, because then it is almost impossible to help a person. A traitor lawyer, such a disguised lawyer who is not even a lawyer, I'm scared that he is called the same word with me, he makes the situation of a person subsequently simply unreliable.
These are the cases I know. But bringing these lawyers to justice is almost impossible. Well, these are questions of both lawyer ethics and evidence.
Karinna Moskalenko is the author of a number of works devoted to the protection of human rights using international legal mechanisms, including the book “International Protection” published in 2001 (now in its fourth edition), in 2009 the book “The Right to Freedom and personal integrity” and other publications. For many years, Karinna has been doing great lecture work in Moscow, Strasbourg, Geneva, Yerevan, Tbilisi, and at various US universities.
2010 - Associate Professor of the Department "
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Public Policy” Higher School of Economics. Karinna is a member of the Russian Committee of Lawyers for the Protection of Human Rights (1993), the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (1999), the Moscow Helsinki Group (1999). She was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "For the Protection of Human Rights" (1999) and the highest legal award "Themis-2000".
The Moscow Chamber of Advocates decided to terminate the disciplinary proceedings against her in this case. The Council's decision is final.
- 1999 - Award of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation "For Human Rights"
- 2000 - Themis Highest Legal Award, Order "For fidelity to lawyer's duty"
- 2006 - Diploma of the Presidium of the Moscow City Bar Association
- 2006 - International Helsinki Federation Recognition Award
- 2008 - Brennan Award, University of New Jersey, USA
- 2010 - Honorary Doctor of Laws from Southern Methodist University (USA, Texas.
- 2010 - Ludovic Trarier International Human Rights Prize.
In October 2008, mercury was found in K. Moskalenko's car after she complained of being unwell.
Karinna has a grandson and granddaughter. Karinna's father served in the missile forces, and her childhood years were spent in military garrisons. After graduating from school in the city of Ostrov, Pskov region, where her father commanded a division, she entered the law faculty of the Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov (1971–1976).
All her student years, according to her own assessment, she was distinguished by rare naivety and faith in the Soviet justice system - she was an "idealist with burning eyes": she entered the law faculty in order to work in the prosecutor's office and fight crime. During the first three courses, she worked as an assistant to the senior investigator for particularly important cases at the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office. Her favorite teacher was Polina Solomonovna Elkind, who gave students an idea of the adversarial nature of the trial, the presumption of innocence.
And I think that the success of our center was noticed and noted by our authorities. But even today the OSCE meeting in Vienna is the first time, I have been invited to these events for a long time, and I have never heard resolutions and wordings of such harshness.
For the first time, I would say, the meeting of the OSCE countries noticed this problem, emphasized this problem, did not shy away from solving this problem. And before Russian authorities posed these questions.
The Russian authorities did not participate in this discussion. Yes, at the end of the meeting they said that they did not agree with something, something was wrong, but they could not refute the real facts. The facts show that the situation is getting worse. And I'm very afraid that this is not our last problem. Vladimir Kara-Murza: We are listening to a question from Muscovite Emil Viktorovich. Listener: Good evening, gentlemen.
A special place in K. Moskalenko's legal practice is occupied by the case of Ivan Semenovich Chushkin, for the fate of which she fought for more than two years.
Once she turned to her human rights organization elderly woman who told such a story. Her distant relative Ivan Chushkin lived for many years in a three-room communal apartment. But that year, one after the other, two tragic events occurred. On the eve of the March 8 holiday, under unclear circumstances, one of the neighbors, an elderly lonely man, was killed. Soon, on Easter, another tenant of this apartment was killed - a lonely middle-aged neighbor of Ivan Semenovich. Chushkin himself was hospitalized that day with a mortal wound and fought death for 16 days in intensive care.
It took two months for the lawyer to find out the whereabouts of Chushkin himself and his case. It turned out that Ivan Chushkin is in the "Chamber of Forgotten People" of the Butyrka Detention Center, and two volumes of his criminal case simply disappeared somewhere between the Presnensky prosecutor's office and the Presnensky court. However, the lawyer managed to restore the almost criminal history of their disappearance. As it turned out, after the end of the investigation, the case was transferred from the prosecutor's office to the court, but it was not registered with the court. From the very first hearing, the court sent the case for additional investigation. However, since it was not registered, there was formally nothing to send for further investigation. The case went to the bottom of the judge's safe.
Months passed. Chushkin stayed in Butyrka, was on trial, and therefore indefinitely. His health was steadily deteriorating, no one was interested in him.
The filed complaint about the unlawfulness of detention under Art. 2201 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR, the court did not intend to consider, since Chushkin was formally listed in the court. And only after making sure that the defense became aware of the ruling on sending the case for additional investigation and, therefore, that the accused was registered with the prosecutor's office, after several complaints, he nevertheless considered them, and the terms of detention ceased to be dimensionless. The prosecutor's office conducted a so-called additional investigation and again referred the case to court. But the conclusion of the investigation is again categorical: Chushkin is a murderer, and this murder was committed under aggravating circumstances.
The version of the investigation looked coherent and was formally confirmed by the testimony of witnesses, two young people from other cities who lived in the apartment at the time of the murder as temporary residents. They claimed that Chushkin hacked his neighbor with an ax, and then locked himself in a room and stabbed himself fatally. The police officers accepted this version, and no one was embarrassed by the fact that, according to the inspection protocol, the bloody knife lay on the dining table, which stood some distance from the bed on which Chushkin lay, and therefore, in order to put the knife on the table, Chushkin had to stand up or reach for the table and put it there, and only then, with a sense of accomplishment, pass out. It never occurred to anyone to check the knife for fingerprints, and Chushkin himself for the possibility of self-harm, taking into account the nature and direction of the wound channel.
There were many contradictions in the testimonies of witnesses, the chain of murders took place in a large three-room apartment, all the residents of which were lonely people. Subsequently, the apartment turned out to be occupied by an illegally issued warrant, it was renovated. The witnesses simply disappeared. The police released them without establishing reliable data about their identity, and in response to a request to the city of their permanent residence, they received an answer that such people do not live there. All these circumstances left no doubt to the defense that the police, which, instead of the prosecutor's office, in violation of the law, actually conducted this case, did everything to ensure that an innocent person was convicted and the true criminals evaded responsibility.
Several dozen complaints were filed in all possible instances ...
On April 20, 1998, Ivan Semenovich Chushkin was released from custody, and the case against him was dismissed due to the absence of corpus delicti in his actions.
