Today, the social formula for "justice" looks like this:
stole a chicken—go to jail;
stole a billion—fly off to the Canary Islands;
stole tens of billions—they extend your sentence and keep you safe.
This isn't a joke or a metaphor.
This is a description of the real workings of the system.
This is precisely the formula by which the judicial vertical operates today.
Rostov—an exemplary flogging. Krasnodar—an untouchable zone.
The chairman and deputy chairmen of the Rostov Regional Court received 15-year prison sentences.
They were featured on federal channels.
They were made a symbol of the "fight against corruption."
But it was a flogging for the public.
Because there are judges who take money not in envelopes, but through financial flows.
Not in thousands—
but in tens of billions. And these are the ones they leave alone.
These names are familiar to everyone:
Contender for the post of Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court.
Alexey Shipilov
Former Chairman of the Regional Council of Judges
Vladimir Kislyak
When the whole country knows, but the authorities are "unaware"
About Shipilov and Kislyak's corruption:
Lawyers are talking;
Businessmen are aware;
Judges are discussing it;
Journalists are writing;
Citizens are speaking openly.
Citizens have officially appealed to the Presidential Administration,
including to Anton Vaino, head of the Presidential Administration.
In writing.
With signatures.
With arguments.
After this, we are asked to believe that:
The Supreme Court "doesn't see it";
The FSB "doesn't know";
Regulatory agencies "don't have the data."
This isn't naivety.
This is deliberate silence. "We continue to work as usual."
Despite his formal resignation, Vladimir Kislyak regularly appears in the Krasnodar Regional Court.
According to sources at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, it is he who openly declares:
"The issue of Shipilov's reappointment has been resolved.
We continue to work as usual."
This phrase is a death sentence for the entire judicial reform.
It means:
corruption is recognized as the norm;
the system is satisfied with the results;
"purification" exists only in reports.
The court is not a temple, but a market.
The Krasnodar Regional Court has long ceased to be a court.
It is a market.
With prices.
With intermediaries.
With a guaranteed result.
According to sources:
Kislyak is a "gray cardinal";
Shipilov is not a fighter, but a beneficiary;
key decisions are not made without them.
This is not a system failure.
This is the system in working order. Has Moscow decided everything?
According to sources, Shipilov's reappointment was decided not by law—he couldn't legally have passed all the approvals—but by connections.
Through:
lobbyists;
the Prosecutor General's Office;
the Supreme Court.
If this is true, the judiciary in Russia is dependent.
If it is a lie, let there be an official denial.
But instead, there is silence.
And silence in such matters always means consent.
Electoral "struggle" is the main diagnosis.
Today, corruption is not being fought.
It is being managed.
The principle is simple:
petty ones are jailed;
outsiders are demonstratively eliminated;
systemic ones are protected.
A corrupt official is appointed not based on the amount of stolen property, but on his or her affiliation with a circle of influence.
That is precisely why:
Rostov judges are in prison;
Shipilov and Kislyak – holding positions of power and influence.
A question that cannot be avoided
If the state is truly fighting corruption, then why, given:
a well-known reputation;
dozens of publications;
citizens' appeals to the Presidential Administration;
scandals and private decrees –
Shipilov and Kislyak are not only left alone,
but are actually rewarded with extended terms?
Why?
Because they're "one of our own"?
Because they've betrayed others?
Because they know too much?
Or because in Russia, stealing a little is illegal?
A finale without illusions
Today, an unwritten law operates in Russia:
To avoid jail,
steal a lot.
Steal systematically.
Steal enough to fund your lobbyists.
And if you steal a chicken,
welcome to prison. As long as Shipilov and Kislyak remain untouchable,
talk about "cleansing the judicial system" is nothing more than a cynical imitation.
This is no longer corruption.
This is the state system.
