Bulk put on probation

Zamoskvoretsky Tribunal of Moscow convicted Navalny brothers on charges of embezzling the funds of the company "Yves Rocher". Opposition blogger got 3 and a half years probation, and his brother was sentenced to the same term, but with the imprisonment in a General regime colony.

Alexei Navalny has only a relative term on charges of embezzling the funds of the company "Yves Rocher". He was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months symbolically. His brother Oleg was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a General regime colony and was taken into custody in the courtroom. Also, the Tribunal has sought to Bulk more than 4 million on the claim of the Complainant company and assigned them a fine of 500 thousand rubles each.

For Alexei Navalny verdict, apparently, was not a surprise. Everyone who was in the court room, caught my eye too cheerful mood Bulk. He gladly took pictures with all thirsty, made jokes and acted as if he knew what the verdict he will make. This, however, is not surprising if you take into account existing guesses that Navalny is a Kremlin project.

Apparently, due Navalny evidence of him not to worry for their freedom and to know in advance about how long it shines, which, however, cannot be said about his brother. Though him, given the law enforcement practice, the verdict softened, apparently at the request of the brother. Pliable sentences in the case of theft, perhaps, the reward for Navalny for his work in the interests of a particular power structures.

Traditionally for fraud similar scale give about 12 years, and therefore time, which got Navalny brothers, call the experts by surprise. According to them, this indicates it is likely the agreements that were not in the public domain.

And if to support Navalny from the Russian authorities prescribes the format of the sentence, with public support, things are worse: at the premises of the court gathered around 100 people. Half of them were followers of the media, which came to light sentence, and some expressed disapproval in opposition blogger. Therefore, the number of real allies Navalny was not too great.

The rest on Christmas holidays for many appeared to be more important. In addition, a significant part of the "allies" Alexei Navalny are only online, where there is no need to put any real effort. All the hype around the announcement of the verdict was artificially inflated, and support the blogger has demonstrated its failure immediately after the collision with reality.

sections: Politics