“Shcherbinsky’s case” put “Evdokimov’s case” into the background |
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<div align="justify">"…One of the main characteristics of Russian modern political life events is their imitative nature. Those facts do not look Now, after the decision to drop the case, people got a signal: “The investigation is over, forget it!” But as the experience shows, the public will go on discussing different versions, until we have got truly and complete answers to the (Russian version here). On 23rd March 2006 the Altai regional court’s board decided to stop the case of Michael Evdoimov’s death, Oleg Shcherbinsky, who had been sentenced before by the court of Zonalny District to 4 years in colony-settlement, was set free. Analysts have different opinions about sharp change in judges’ sentence. Many people think, that it was the victory of drivers’ movement, who had objected to officials’ “flash cars“, to prohibition of “ “Shcherbinsky’s case”. From the very beginning, the investigation and the trial held behind closed doors, took only one version about the occasional road accident into consideration, in which Mr.Shcherbinsky was considered “criminal laches “ which led to the death of three persons. Before the trial, Oleg Shcherbinsky was represented on the central TV channel as culprit, who drove the car with the “right wheel”. During the trial, Mr.Shcherbinsky himself kept silent and answered, that he hadn’t seen anything. Then the “Zonalny district’s justice” turned the advocacy appeal down (about carrying out the additional examination) and pronounced the verdict of “guilty”, which provoked rugged protests of drivers. Those people, whose protests were summed up in the slogan “We are all Shcherbinskies “ objected to violation of drivers’ rights on Russian roads. And when the rallies spread all over the country, political technologists at the “top” decided “to have finger in the pie” with the aim to prevent the opposition from using the chance. Mr.Shcherbinsky was also supported by the federal TV channels and Edinaya Rossia party; that organized a mass rally before the court session in Barnaul. The lawyer A. Kucherena represented The Public Chamber; later S. Mironov, A. Khinshtein and other public figures joined the “campaign”. Interesting to know, that before the trial, the nominees for “The Siberian of the year” title were defined. In spite of the protests of the public O. Shcherbinsky was nominated candidate for the award as a man who “contributed a lot to Siberian life and who worked for Russian welfare”. So he as well as the late Mr.Evdokimov (who was killed in the car crash) was nominated on the list of the first seven winners. The court made a decision under powerful pressure of well-coordinated PR campaign. It is also necessary to mention, that some federal mass media published some gossip about Evdokimov’s Moscow “mistresses”. It seems that somebody wanted the image of Mr.Shcherbinsky as a national hero and martyr to replace in the public memory the image of the late “people’s governor”. “Evdokimov’s case”. However, in the case of causes and circumstances of Mr.Evdokimov’s death there were a lot of “inconvenient” versions, which people are still discussing. We don’t admit that these versions are true because they should be tested. But nobody answered the questions that stirred the society. To understand the course of events better, it is necessary to recall the history of Mr.Evdokimov’s governorship. We can point out three stages. The The autumn of 2004-the spring of 2005: failure to build his own team. Evdokimov dismissed almost all upper officials, but his attempts to create his own The The opinion poll, carried out by the Sociological Centre of Yu.Levada, showed that more than half (52%) of the respondents thought that the road accident of August 7 was the attempt at the governor’s life. But the trial and the investigation didn’t take that version into account. The case of Mr.Evdokimov’s death was immediately transformed into “Shcherbinsky’s case”. It left a lot of questions without answers. Unanswered questions. Evdokimov’s death looks as if it had happened right on time for his numerous opponents and it promotes the circulation of unofficial rumours about his death. There are a lot of stories among people and on There are concomitant stories that supplement a lot of mysteries to this case. For example, in Rubtsovsk there was an explosion of the militia car, which led to the death of one militiaman. Commentators noted that the event had the aim to draw the regional militia’s attention away from Byisk route. Later, as a culprit of the accident a Chechen man, who had worked as hospital attendant in Rubtsovsk, was detained but the judges proved him innocent. The question “who was interested in that single terror act in the Altai territory history”, is still unanswered. However, there is another mystery connected with the There is one more significant fact. The fact that the litigant asked to hold the trial in Zonalny district in closed regime was not true. Litigant representatives declared they hadn’t brought forward such a request. There are a lot of discrepancies in “Evdokimov’s case”. One of the main characteristics of Russian modern political life events is their imitative nature. Those facts do not look Now, after the decision to drop the case, people got a signal: “The investigation is over, forget it!” But as the experience shows, the public will go on discussing different versions, until we have got truly and complete answers to the
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