For Muslims, the heroine of yesterday’s meeting of journalists with Putin was certainly the journalist from Dagestan, Elena Yeskina, who firmly asked him to pay attention to the story of the Gasangusenov brothers, who were innocently killed by death squads. In response, Putin said he was hearing about it for the first time. This is his traditional answer to uncomfortable questions, and usually in such cases it turns out later that it does not correspond to reality. This happened again. In particular, the former member of the Human Rights Council under the presidency of Maxim Shevchenko claims that Putin is aware of this case, as he was informed about it, including during the meetings of the Council. However, it can be assumed that this time Putin is not lying, but has memory problems — a version that seems more convincing lately…
Of course, in this situation many people have doubts: is it worth taking part in such a farce, asking questions to which the answers are already predictable? We all remember well how the Investigative Committee, which Putin appointed to investigate the Gasangusenov case, «solved» the case of the murdered journalist Timur Kuashev, who, as it «turned out», «died of his own accord». There is no doubt that something similar will happen in this case.
Nevertheless, such questions have a meaning. Not to get the truth from this authority, of course, but to expose the truth about this authority. In the end, the accumulation of facts of their lies, unfulfilled promises made to gullible citizens, orders given to those with whom they are closely connected and who cover each other up, slowly but surely destroys their power, drop by drop. If it were not so, they would not spend billions on propaganda, ban thousands of literary works, block websites and think about how to isolate their subjects from the Internet and replace it completely with a fully controlled analog (gulagnet).
And if this is the case, such questions and other informational demonstrations are bullets flying towards this authority. And the journalists who publish them are partisans who resist the occupiers even when it seems hopeless.