A solemn ceremony dedicated to the Day of Knowledge and the beginning of the academic year has taken place in the Academy of the Russia’s Investigative Committee.
The ceremony was attended by: Chairman of the Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, heads of divisions of the Central Office, Advisor of the Prosecutor General Alexander Sukharev, Chairman of the Council of regional NGO Union of Investigation Veterans Vladimir Dontsov, member of the regional NGO Union of Investigation Veterans Sergey Sukhanov, Chairman of the club of the Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Russian Federation and full holders of Orders of Glory Nikolai Antoshkin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Director of the Cadet School Igor Zaporozhin, Deputy Head of Moscow Youth and Family Department Alexander Bodrov, professors and first-year students of the Academy, students’ relatives and guests of honor.
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee congratulated all the present on the beginning of their first year at the Academy. “Each of you has to accept our basic valuables: patriotism, integrity and humanism. Since its first days the Investigative Committee has been cultivating moral purity, honesty and high anticorruption standards among its employees. I am sure that the guarantee for sustainable development of investigating bodies is their ability to clean themselves from traitors and corrupt officials. Each of you will have a shoulder of a comrade and your superior in any complicated situation, however those who taint their honor with a wrongdoing will never find either protection or patronage”, - noted Mr. Bastrykin. The Chairman stressed that “over a short period of time the Investigative Committee managed to win public trust, and one of the reasons for that is that its investigators turned their faces to ordinary citizens. I have said, but will repeat: those who are unable to sympathize or care about people do not belong to the Investigative Committee. All the more so, if the person to care about is a victim of a crime, or the victim is a child, older person or an invalid. The victim doesn’t have to be a victim doubly: first of a crime and then of hard-heartedness and callousness of an investigator”.
The ceremony was finished by awarding medals and letters of commendations to professors and teachers of the Academy. In addition, there was a concert with participation of the students of the A.G. Shnitke Moscow State Institute of Music.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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