Maryna Koktysh: “I’d prefer flowers to subpoenas”
The deputy editor-in-chief of “Narodnaya Volya” Maryna Koktysh has been interrogated by KGB today. Officially, she was a witness in Svyatlana Baikova’s case. The journalist wrote a lot about this case in “Narodnaya Volya”.
An investigator of the first KGB investigation department Pavel Charnyauski claimed that he had nothing against Ms. Koktysh’s articles before the interrogation. Everything was correct there. The interrogation took about an hour. Maryna Koktysh thinks that the questions she was asked were insignificant.
Koktysh: “The questions he asked concerned my relations with the lawyer protecting the interests of Svyatlana Baikava. They concerned me personally – my studies and my work. I refused to answer the majority of them because they had nothing to do with Baikova’s case”.
Maryna Koktysh cannot tell the exact reason for this subpoena. She joked that she probably had admirers in KGB and said that they should have better sent her flowers instead of subpoenas. Ms. Koktysh thinks that KGB may want to discredit Baikova’s lawyer in some way as the journalist knows him personally.
An investigator of the first KGB investigation department Pavel Charnyauski claimed that he had nothing against Ms. Koktysh’s articles before the interrogation. Everything was correct there. The interrogation took about an hour. Maryna Koktysh thinks that the questions she was asked were insignificant.
Koktysh: “The questions he asked concerned my relations with the lawyer protecting the interests of Svyatlana Baikava. They concerned me personally – my studies and my work. I refused to answer the majority of them because they had nothing to do with Baikova’s case”.
Maryna Koktysh cannot tell the exact reason for this subpoena. She joked that she probably had admirers in KGB and said that they should have better sent her flowers instead of subpoenas. Ms. Koktysh thinks that KGB may want to discredit Baikova’s lawyer in some way as the journalist knows him personally.
