specialists “Petersburg policy” came to the conclusion, today officials are working in the most stressful time of Joseph Stalin era.
In its report, “combating “internal Working”: “cleaning” bureaucracy in modern Russia” analysts noted, that after the death of Stalin in 1953 year persecution among the bureaucracy became isolated.
But about a year 2010 changed everything. If during the period from 1995 by 2010 year came to light only 15 criminal cases representatives of the federal elite, to the 2012 year 16 state employees have come under high rank distribution. A 2016 year in general has become the most widespread on the prosecution of high officials and parliamentarians – Then it was brought 40 of criminal cases.
Mikhail Vinogradov, author of the report on the matter stated, that the increase in the number of landings associated with the strengthening of the security forces. In many ways, the emergence of criminal cases was a response to the statements of the authorities anticorruption agenda. Security officials have begun to compete in absentia on, “who is more important and who will plant more than”.
Nevertheless, it makes no sense to compare what is happening with the 1930s, According to experts. In those days, people could go to jail with no real reason, and today processes against officials always have the corruption component. While the elites perceive the growth of landings as a settling of accounts, rather than fight against corruption.
To date, the most severe sentences received Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, who received a life sentence in 2015 year, General of the Ministry of Interior Denis Sugrobov (22 years in prison), as well as the former governor of Sakhalin Andrew Horoshavin with the term in 13 years.
And still, According to the authors Telegram channel RTVi, “Stalin's times are back. Fund "Petersburg Politics" analyzed 250 criminal cases against senior officials of modern Russia. The report says, now waiting for any official, when for "for him to come". And this was not since Stalin's times.
Experts also predict a rise in "landing" indicators. 2019 year has just begun, and in the treasury of the law enforcement system is already possible to record four arrested:
– the mayor of Nefteyugansk Sergei Degtyarev
– Vice-governor of the Leningrad region, Oleg Koval
– Vyacheslav Kravchenko, Deputy Energy Minister
– Senator Rauf Arashukov”.
So the trend is only expanding and deepening. whether it will benefit the bureaucratic stratum, not yet known.
