Commentator launches scathing attack on Russian government over prison deaths

BBC Monitoring

Text of report by Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy on 11 August

[Presenter] According to the Prosecutor-General’s Office, more than 4,000 prisoners died last year in Russian colonies from various causes. In the [same] year, 521 people died from various illnesses in remand centres. Our observer Matvey Ganapolskiy picks up the theme.

[Ganapolskiy] There are times when you have to write a piece of comment but are lost for words. Only swear words come to mind.

August 2010. The Prosecutor-General’s Office checks prisons and remand centres. Read its findings, citizens, they are straightforward. There is no money, the equipment is from the 70s, there is no room for expansion, and if one gets ill, then – I will give you a quote – due to the imperfection of the normative and legal regulation, there are widespread instances of the management of state and municipal health system establishments refusing to diagnose and provide medical assistance to convicted prisoners.

You see, within prisons and remand centres, and the Prosecutor-General’s Office itself, people have known this all along. And so have the various ministries and the national leader. But these bastards had to kill [Hermitage Capital Management investment fund lawyer Sergey] Magnitskiy by refusing him assistance and kill others by refusing them assistance before writing the same words they have been writing all these years without changing anything in the system.

Here is another one: distribution of medication often occurs without the needs of penal service establishments being taken into account. Many of them do not have the main groups of medicines, including second-line medications for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

I am asking these bastards, why do you not have these medications and what have you done to them? Who is to blame for them not being available and for the fact that almost everyone in prisons and remand centres suffers from tuberculosis and hepatitis. If you, bastards, had these medicines, what have you done with them? If you did not, why did you not demand reforms at the time when the former-future president was singing the praises of a country flush with cash. Did you, bastards, have wet trousers? Were you afraid of demanding? Were you afraid of losing your jobs? Why do you not then say openly how many more Magnitskiys have to die in your cells before you buy medicines and, quote, streamline your normative and legal regulation, which in reality takes five minutes to regulate.

I want to tell you, bastards, that all of you will be thrown into the same stinking cells because by doing nothing, you will make Limonov president. He, as you know, is a consistent and no-nonsense person. He will be elected not because he is an angel, but out of despair, because this is how Russia works: one former-future one has not been doing anything for 10 years and will not be doing anything. The other one, installed by him, does everything at a snail’s pace. Behind them are bastards who write such papers, thinking that they will keep their jobs forever.

People are dying like flies, while the director of Russia’s Federal Penal Service, Aleksandr Reymer, is issued an admonition for all this. Death, hepatitis and tuberculosis for some, admonition for others. It is all right, Limonov will establish order. It is him that you want, bastards, do you not?

Source: Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian 1400 gmt 11 Aug 10
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