Five years in prison and 30,000 rubles fine for Nikita Uvarov. Two of his friends were released from criminal liability under the terrorist article (205.3), but they were given suspended sentences of three and four years for making, storing and carrying explosives (with a two-year probationary period). Uvarov was taken into custody in the courtroom. One not so bad guy had his future taken away.
Nikita Uvarov in court. Already handcuffed. Photo by Anna Uvarova
Yes, this is not about death yet, but such terms in Russian camps are somewhere near it. And to start to sit to him — in a children's colony: that's where hell is. The imposition of a closed perimeter on adolescence with its uncomplicated bestiality and rejection of the foundations of civilization — when the youngsters are tear-offs in the herd.
The crocodile does not chase butterflies, the eagle does not catch flies, and
it seemed impossible : to judge children — by a military tribunal. Replace administrative and preventive work with such a killer deadline.
To explain physiology (that is, tests and searches for oneself inherent in all adolescence) — criminality and politics. To keep an exclusively homely, bookish 14-year-old guy in a pre-trial detention center for his «intentions» that are not confirmed by anything, except for not even chatter — a couple of phrases thrown on social networks.
Keep him in the same cell with those who killed people. Bust, untruth in the absolute, disproportion, from a cannon to sparrows; the tribunals don't deal with trifles, let alone childish trifles. And even more so against the backdrop of the ongoing “humanization of criminal legislation”, which the Chairman of the Supreme Court told the President on February 9: 10 years ago there were 39,000 convicted minors in the country, now 15,000; over the past year, the courts have dismissed criminal cases against 37 % of teenagers.
Here in Kansk, for contempt of court, he should have issued a couple of caustic definitions against the FSB and the Investigative Committee, and sent the underage to clean the city walls from advertisements.
The three judges asked them the way they used to ask adults in uniform who took an oath, looking for and demanding logic, rationality, understanding of words and arguments, responsibility for what was said/written.
But bewildered children stood before the court. Two of them signed confessions, which were later retracted. “You are confusing the court and are confused yourself. Or do you not understand where you are?”
— this is only one remark of one of the judges addressed to the defendant (I quote from the personal notes of one participant in the process).
And one more quote from a dialogue between a lawyer and his client about the details of the appearance.
Lawyer Anton Kolosov: “In the video, do you repeatedly look down somewhere, where you look?”
Defendant A.: «I'm looking at a piece of paper, the investigator gave it to me so that I would confess to him.»
K.: «Did she print it?»
A.: Yes.
By the way. According to Kolosov, A. (a strong good student, keen on the exact sciences, independently reaching heights in chemical experiments) was checked on an independent polygraph. He has no reactions indicating that he was planning a terrorist attack. But all requests for the appointment by the court of psychophysiological examinations using a polygraph and with the choice of an expert institution by the court itself were rejected.
And the turnout remained not only the queen of evidence, but also a measure of the mercy of the state — Uvarov's friends were exempted from liability because that they signed everything proposed to them in the first days. But Nikita did not, he denied all accusations of terrorism.
His mother did not remain silent, began to communicate with reporters. And one cannot fail to see the Jesuitism of the final decision in this: they say, if they were silent, like others, they would sign — and Nikita would now remain at large. .jpg» class=»SingleImage_image__3qIDn» alt=»» />
Anna Uvarova with her son Nikita. February 7, 2022. Photo: A. Kitaytsev, for Novaya Gazeta