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Esteemed court! Today, as I address you with my final statement, I am deeply moved. These two years of court proceedings have brought many challenging moments, worries, and reflections. Now, standing before you, I would first of all like to express my sincere gratitude.
I am grateful to you, esteemed Aleksandr Sergeyevich, for your attentive attitude, for your patience, and for giving me the opportunity to be heard. Thank you for respecting my dignity throughout this time.
I would like to express my gratitude to the court session secretary for your work, attentiveness, and kindness. Perhaps people do not always notice the effort of the person who ensures order in the courtroom, but I sincerely appreciate your attitude.
I would especially like to thank the lawyers. Thank you for your professional work, for your support, for being by my side throughout these two years. Thank you for your integrity, your effort, and for helping me defend my position.
I also wish to thank the prosecutor. Although our views on this case differ, I am sincerely grateful to you for your correctness and respectful attitude toward me. It is very important to me that, even within such a difficult court process, we maintained human dignity and mutual respect.
In my final statement, I would like to touch on the subject of justice — after all, this is where people come in the hope of a fair resolution to their problems. Everyone wants to be loved, understood, and respected. And, in the same way, each of us wants to be treated fairly. But where does this feeling come from? Why is it so important for us to be treated justly?
I found the answer to this question in the Bible. At its very beginning, in the first chapter, it is written: “God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness’” (Genesis 1:26). Jehovah is the name of the God who created man in his image, that is, he endowed us with qualities that reflect his personality. One of these is justice — the desire to do …