Pyatkin advances — Chebotarev counterattacks

      Boris Mikhailovich believed that the court would agree with his proposal to apply "punitive measures" to the Publishing House in the form of a fine in the total amount of 4.2 million rubles and a public apology. And, if the main claim of the ex-owner (independently or through his spouse) of the "Emergency Service" was that, solely in his opinion, he was "exposed as a scoundrel", deprived of his job, respect and even a place in the Public Chamber, then empty verbose accusations against Chebotarev, representing the interests of the editorial board, were They would be very serious if they weren't so funny.

      If we do not take into account the secular accusations of "blackmail and murder", assigning the status of "killers" and trying to compare us with ... Goebbels (probably referring to his leadership of the NSDAP propaganda department (the organization is banned in Russia), then the abrupt transition to theological rhetoric was unexpected. For the first time, we were accused of godlessness and lack of fear of sin, calling on our heads and promising, pointing a finger at the judicial ceiling, "heavenly punishments."

      But heavenly justice was in no hurry to incinerate us, apparently believing that, when mentioning a German politician, Boris Mikhailovich did not take into account himself in the context of Goebbels' phrase "the steeper the lie, the easier it is to believe in it." At the same time, Yan Evgenievich looked completely phlegmatic, only once interrupting Pyatkin's verbal flow, equally addressed to the court and himself, by noting that the statute of limitations on the claims had expired a year and a half ago.

      A good lawyer is not a job, but a diagnosis.

      After the meeting, Yan Evgenievich answered several questions. Newsler.ru related to his stoic calmness during work: "Does your phlegm indicate professional burnout? After all, representing clients in the courts for 25 years, fighting off the frequent aggressiveness of opponents, is a very hard job."

      "I don't feel any burnout. As before, I'm interested and excited. However, I no longer feel emotional delight from winning, and I do not consider losing a tragedy."

      By the way, the lawyer talked about those lawsuits that he would classify as the most monetary, dangerous, most high-profile and "out of the goodness of his heart."

      As explained by Yan Chebotarev, he participated in court proceedings where 2.5 billion rubles were at stake. And one of the most "scary" trials was in Kirov:

      "I was invited for the usual discussion of issues related to the lawsuit. When I came to the meeting, they put my hands behind my back, handcuffed me, and put a knife in my hands so that there would be fingerprints on the handle, which they would allegedly find at the crime scene. They wanted to achieve one thing — to withdraw the claim. I had to pretend to be corrupt and greedy: to assure them that I would withdraw and ask for money for it... They promised to give it, but then. I can say that those people were shocked when they realized that I was not going to withdraw the claim and would win the process. Of course, anyone would be scared, but I'm not the kind of person you're used to seeing in a suit and bow tie, but a normal guy who's caught bandits and run around with a gun."

      As the lawyer explained, he was never a pampered "golden boy", but was born into a family where all men served the Motherland — his father in the army, his grandfather in the militia, and his great-grandfather was an officer in the royal guard:

      "My father always said: why think about work — continue the dynasty, serve the people. And I served, caught crooks, and studied arbitration practice at the same time. Then I decided to go on a "free swim." I hung my cap on a nail and my tunic in the closet... I tried it on yesterday — it's too narrow."

      According to Chebotarev, the trial in which he confronted one of the law enforcement agencies that complained to the editorial board is not the most high-profile. But he brought an understanding of what the "expert" Ksenia Litsareva is worth, and her assessment of the text. As well as the metropolitan linguist of the Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language, Leonid Krysin, PhD, who also worked with Solzhenitsyn's materials, who did not take money from the journalist for his work. And although there was minimal hope of victory - a very serious agency was "offended" by you then, but the court sided with us."

      Yan Evgenievich explained that his saddest job was helping the parents of Private Sasha Cherepanov, who was killed in a military unit:

      "It was then that you asked me to help the people who received the 200 cargo with the note that the son took his own life. The parents, not believing in suicide, opened their son's coffin. And they were convinced that the child was not just killed, but tortured before his death. I still have this terrible picture in front of my eyes. It was a long, many months of work, and it's good that you managed to come to an agreement with a doctor you know, who hid the coffin in the morgue of his hospital. The culprit was found and convicted... And the main thing for me was that after the investigation, the church buried the 19-year-old boy as a victim. I didn't take any money from my parents, although I had to travel to garrison hospitals in different cities."

      According to the lawyer, it was this job that helped him see Nikita Belykh as a real person.:

      "We, Sasha's parents and I, were invited to the governor's office without fanfare or publicity. He was compassionate, comforting, and financially helpful. In my opinion, he gave a decent amount "for commemoration," not from the budget, but from his pocket."

      By the way, during his 25 years of work, Yan Chebotarev was recognized once as the "Best Lawyer of the Russian Federation" and six times as the "Best Lawyer of the Year" in the Kirov region.