At today’s All-Russian Congress of Judges of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin told a story about…

Vladimir Putin, at today’s All-Russian Congress of Judges of the Russian Federation, told a story entitled “How I knew everything about criminal proceedings in Russia from reports and certificates,” namely, he stated that in ten months of this year, actual imprisonment for crimes in the sphere of economic activity was assigned only 9 % of those convicted. “After all, these are real numbers,” the president assured those gathered.

The Judicial Department of the Supreme Court is responsible for judicial statistics, but no matter how you look at the figures from the statistics it previously published for the first half of 2022, the mathematics that the president voiced based on the past ten months of the year does not come out: “5 thousand such cases in relation to 5 5 thousand people, 3.5 thousand were convicted, and in relation to 2 thousand citizens, criminal cases were terminated by the courts, actual imprisonment was imposed 9% of those convicted.”

In this mathematics, for sure, it was not possible without checking the figures with the General Directorate of State Administration Igor Krasnov, who, judging by the official news from his estate, actually became a business ombudsman, no less. Another unconditional beneficiary of “good business figures” is Minister of Justice Chuychenko.

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This is how the numbers went into the folder, the folder on the table. And a story was born at the table that amused the legal community, but in reality it is very sad. And it testifies that in the country, for the sake of one person, an entire Metaverse has been created, in which everything is subject to numbers, even reality, and whoever controls the numbers in it controls reality.