Run-of-the-mill lawlessness

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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There probably isn’t any statistical data out there about what quantity of Chechens has been convicted by Russian courts over the past, say, ten years. Even back when I was still in the strict-regime camp, I had run into situations that bore witness to obviously falsified criminal cases in relation to persons only because they had been Chechens. I likewise studied the materials of cases where it was obviously visible: the degree of the guilt of the convicted Chechens in a series of situations was much lower than the degree of punishment. No doubt in these cases too the factor of nationality had played its role.

Here is one of the cases, which, in my view, is not as unambiguous as the court imagines it to be.

The Chechen Timur Idalov, born in the year 1967, is living outside Moscow since the year 2007 and working in construction .Simultaneously he is studying in the 4th year [of 5–Trans.] of the Juridical institute.