Russia (bbabo.net), - Two holidays in the calendar of memorable dates of our country stand side by side - the Day of the Prosecutor's Office and the Day of the Russian Press, celebrated on January 12 and 13. They were established in honor of the events of three centuries ago.

On January 12, 1722, by personal decree of the Emperor of the Russian Empire, Peter the Great, the post of Prosecutor General was first established and the institution of the Russian Prosecutor's Office arose. And almost 20 years earlier - on January 13, 1703 - the first newspaper in Russia, Vedomosti, was published, edited by the same Peter I.

It turns out that history itself has placed two professions side by side - the prosecutor and the journalist. At a recent press conference in Krasnodar, Kuban prosecutor Sergei Tabelsky noted this. In his opinion, representatives of both professions perform, in fact, one common task - they stand guard over the law and the interests of a person.

The journalist covers the problems of people, talking about them, and the prosecutor helps in solving them. Moreover, the media do not just form public opinion, but sometimes influence specific destinies, which the author of these lines has repeatedly seen from her own example.

You must be a lawyer

At one time, I myself wanted to become a prosecutor, which, I remember, I wrote about in the application form when I entered the law faculty of the Kuban State University. She graduated from school at the age of 16, and immediately became a student, however, not in the daytime, but in the evening department. During the day she worked, and in the evenings she studied the laws. And it so happened that I got to the editorial office of the regional radio, where my first reportage soon went on the air.

That's how I came into the profession, putting in a distant box a university diploma of graduation from the law faculty. It was not useful to me, which cannot be said about the knowledge gained at the university. Over the past years and decades, they have had to be used more than once in the preparation of materials about people in difficult situations.

Some were left without work, others lost their homes, and others found themselves under the law enforcement skating rink. Moreover, the cause of the hardships that fell upon them, as it turned out in the course of a journalistic investigation, most often became not only their own mistakes, but also the intrigues of dishonest individuals who knew how to establish the necessary connections in bureaucratic corridors and law enforcement structures. Many similar stories, taken from life, have been told, first on the radio, and for the last 20 years - on the pages of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

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The Kushchevskoye case

After my articles, criminal cases were initiated, as happened in the fall of 2005 after a series of revealing publications about criminal events in the village of Kushchevskaya. At that time, about a dozen criminal cases were initiated, the head of the Kushchevsky District Department of Internal Affairs became a defendant in one of them.

However, the main "hero" of the investigation, the local deputy and "philanthropist" Sergei Tsapok (everyone recognized him, although only his initials were indicated in the article), evaded the answer through the efforts of influential patrons. And five years later, after the massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya in November 2010, when 12 people, including four children, became victims of the Tsapkov bandits, the whole country learned about the Tsapki. And shuddered.

Articles like this are not for everyone. Especially when they become the reason for the proceedings, and sometimes the initiation of criminal cases. However, none of the defendants filed lawsuits in court after my articles.

History of one house

On the other hand, I spent the last year and a half as a defendant in the suit of Tatyana and Nikolai Yakovenko, residents of Krasnodar. I learned about their existence in the spring of 2020 from a letter to the editor.

It was about the troubles of the young family of Nina and Andrey Zhvanko, who were forced to wander around strange corners with two small children, although they should have found their own roof for a long time: they took up the construction of the house back in 2017. The reason is Yakovenko's neighbors, who seem to like Zhvanko's plot.

Through their efforts, the situation was brought to a standstill: Zhvanko was ordered to demolish a new building, called for some reason an unauthorized building, although it had all the permissions. Two of our materials caused a great resonance in 2020. I note right away that the second article was prepared with the active participation of the prosecutor's office, whose checks confirmed the facts set forth in the first publication.

After the scandal broke out, the regional authorities took control of the situation. However, the decision to demolish the Zhvanko house under construction, which passed through all instances, did not allow finding a way out of the artificially created impasse.

Events began to develop just like a detective scenario - with the manipulation of civil case materials and other "oddities", described in detail in the third article devoted to this story. It ends rather harshly. Who is in power in the Kuban? And is she able to protect a person? And in this case, a young family with two small children?

Finally, at the end of last year, the regional court rejected Tatiana Yakovenko's private complaint. And now Zhvanko has every chance to complete the construction.Back to news » Back to news » Back to news » Back to news »

The investigation continues

In parallel with this lawsuit, another litigation developed, in which the Yakovenkos also acted as parties. Shortly after our first publication, they filed a suit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the editors of Rossiyskaya Gazeta and me.

The police investigator came to my house late in the evening, almost at night, but thanks to this visit I found out what the applicants were accusing me of. It turns out that since 2017 I have been collecting negative information about the Yakovenko family, which is subjected to cyberbullying (bullying on social networks). By that time, my first two articles had already been published. And they "walked" on the Internet. Users wrote their comments.

So the statements of representatives of the Yakovenko family can be regarded as an attempt to counteract legitimate journalistic activities. Maybe it's worth taking up this topic? After all, impunity, as you know, leads to irresponsibility and permissiveness.

Happy holiday! Dear colleagues and readers!

I congratulate all of us on our Russian Press Day! We're writing. You read - and create a public outcry, helping journalists seek truth and justice. And it also often takes courage. Thank you!

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