It’s people who make the system Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The chattering continues… I’m talking here about the fact that a command has obviously been given to the Russian mass media to hype the thesis of the newly-sprung president Medvedev about “legal nihilism” and the necessity of struggle for an independent judiciary. And so it is that even the procurator-general himself has revealed his word to the people. In Russia, said Yuri Chaika recently, thousands of people are unlawfully brought to criminal liability every year. Of course, what forgot to mention was that this lawlessness is happening largely through the fault of none other than procuratorial workers. And I’m interested: what was it that kept Chaika from proclaiming such a well-known truth earlier, before Medvedev said that thing about “nihilism”? Chaika also said this: “…annually as a result of an outright defect in the work of preliminary investigation the number of persons having the right to rehabilitation after criminal prosecution continue [sic] to number in the thousands. “If in the year 2006 the right to rehabilitation received 6234 persons, then in 2007 – 5265. In so doing more than a quarter of them were held in detention”, underscored the procurator. Photo: Procurator-General Chaika (source)