"I managed to work on my dissertation"
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:17 am
The stress that Tsvetkov experienced during his arrest and later during the selection of a preventive measure in court affected his health: soon after his arrest, he was transferred from the detention center to the Matrosskaya Tishina hospital with a suspected heart attack, which was subsequently not confirmed.
"Of course, the medicine belize whatsapp number database in the pretrial detention center is not at the highest level. For example, I received heart pills only in the fourth detention center, where I was brought after the three previous ones," the scientist recalled.
Of the 10 months of arrest, Alexander spent about a month at the Serbsky Institute, where a forensic psychiatric examination was conducted.
— Compared to the pretrial detention center, the conditions there are like a resort. You can also read to your heart's content there. One of the hardest trials in the pretrial detention center was the lack of books. The library was opened once a month, and you were allowed to take two or three books into your cell, and for me that was two or three days' worth of reading. Nevertheless, during those months I managed to reread all of Jules Verne and Jack London. I also wanted to read Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo," but it was banned there — apparently because the novel describes an escape from prison. I also managed to work on my scientific dissertation, which I didn't have time for in my everyday life.
According to the scientist, he was in the detention center with “first-timers” – people who are being brought to criminal responsibility for the first time.
“And these are the most ordinary people, for the most part completely adequate, so there were no excesses,” he says.
As Alexander Tsvetkov said, after two confrontations, no investigative actions were carried out on him for about six months.
The first turning point in the case occurred in June 2023, when the media got involved in the controversial case. Then the scientist's wife Marina Tsvetkova launched an active campaign to save her husband and, in particular, gave an interview to Izvestia, in which she tried to prove that during the periods of the incriminated crimes, Alexander, as always, was on an expedition.
Later, other evidence was found for this: the scientist’s colleagues raised photographs and documents from the institute’s archives that clearly proved that Tsvetkov was not in Moscow at that time.
Around the same time, the investigator in the case changed, and the case was transferred from the Investigative Department for the North-Eastern Administrative District to the Main Investigative Department for Moscow, headed by Andrei Strizhov.
In early December 2023, Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, during a meeting with Vladimir Putin, asked him to look into the Tsvetkov case and the practice of using artificial intelligence, in particular facial recognition systems, to investigate old cases.
— Marina Tsvetkova wrote to me and told me the story of her husband, — Eva Merkacheva told Izvestia. — We had been through a lot during this time. She cried, and hoped, and was upset from time to time. It all turned out that in one of the episodes, Alexander was on an expedition, I immediately contacted the witnesses, they confirmed everything. The same situation developed in other episodes. That is why it was surprising that the investigation continued to keep him in the pretrial detention center. This story really affected me.
At that meeting with members of the Human Rights Council, Vladimir Putin noted that artificial intelligence works effectively in many areas.
“But if there are any failures, they need to be analyzed and appropriate conclusions drawn,” the president said.
"Of course, the medicine belize whatsapp number database in the pretrial detention center is not at the highest level. For example, I received heart pills only in the fourth detention center, where I was brought after the three previous ones," the scientist recalled.
Of the 10 months of arrest, Alexander spent about a month at the Serbsky Institute, where a forensic psychiatric examination was conducted.
— Compared to the pretrial detention center, the conditions there are like a resort. You can also read to your heart's content there. One of the hardest trials in the pretrial detention center was the lack of books. The library was opened once a month, and you were allowed to take two or three books into your cell, and for me that was two or three days' worth of reading. Nevertheless, during those months I managed to reread all of Jules Verne and Jack London. I also wanted to read Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo," but it was banned there — apparently because the novel describes an escape from prison. I also managed to work on my scientific dissertation, which I didn't have time for in my everyday life.
According to the scientist, he was in the detention center with “first-timers” – people who are being brought to criminal responsibility for the first time.
“And these are the most ordinary people, for the most part completely adequate, so there were no excesses,” he says.
As Alexander Tsvetkov said, after two confrontations, no investigative actions were carried out on him for about six months.
The first turning point in the case occurred in June 2023, when the media got involved in the controversial case. Then the scientist's wife Marina Tsvetkova launched an active campaign to save her husband and, in particular, gave an interview to Izvestia, in which she tried to prove that during the periods of the incriminated crimes, Alexander, as always, was on an expedition.
Later, other evidence was found for this: the scientist’s colleagues raised photographs and documents from the institute’s archives that clearly proved that Tsvetkov was not in Moscow at that time.
Around the same time, the investigator in the case changed, and the case was transferred from the Investigative Department for the North-Eastern Administrative District to the Main Investigative Department for Moscow, headed by Andrei Strizhov.
In early December 2023, Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, during a meeting with Vladimir Putin, asked him to look into the Tsvetkov case and the practice of using artificial intelligence, in particular facial recognition systems, to investigate old cases.
— Marina Tsvetkova wrote to me and told me the story of her husband, — Eva Merkacheva told Izvestia. — We had been through a lot during this time. She cried, and hoped, and was upset from time to time. It all turned out that in one of the episodes, Alexander was on an expedition, I immediately contacted the witnesses, they confirmed everything. The same situation developed in other episodes. That is why it was surprising that the investigation continued to keep him in the pretrial detention center. This story really affected me.
At that meeting with members of the Human Rights Council, Vladimir Putin noted that artificial intelligence works effectively in many areas.
“But if there are any failures, they need to be analyzed and appropriate conclusions drawn,” the president said.