Bei den alljährlichen offiziellen Pressekonferenzen, die Wladimir PUTIN regelmäßig vor ausgewähltem Publikum und Journalisten abhält, konnte im selben Jahr die znak-Redakteurin Ekaterina VINOKUROVA eine Frage stellen. Sie wollte PUTIN's Meinung zur Rechtsstaatlichkeit der russischen Justiz erfahren. Frage und Antwort sind nicht nur auf znak.com dokumentiert, sondern auch im englischen Wikipedia:
Frage/VINOKUROVA:
"Now acquittals less 1% — less than under Stalin, — Catherine recalled. — Responding to a similar question, you said that, then, investigation works well. But it is not. Enough to look at the processes on the same Bolotnaya case or cases of Aksana Panova, Daniil Konstantinov".
Antwort/PUTIN:
"I agree with you that we need to seek purity of court decisions, verdicts, improve the quality of the preliminary investigation, judicial investigation, — said Putin. — All of this should be done. But I want to assure you that in fact it is a problem not only in our country. Everywhere there is a miscarriage of justice, any negligence in the investigation and interrogation apparatus and the judiciary. But we must work on this together, including through the media. I also say this quite seriously, without irony any jokes. We are often faced with dishonesty and some substandard work. It happens. And, of course, we have to react to this and try to do it. But I want to pay your attention to the fact that decisions on amnesty just due to the fact to close this topic, flip it. And do everything possible in moving forward, and together with the representatives of civil society, and the law enforcement system, and with the state and other authorities destinations. Okay?"
