In this new issue, we would recommend paying your attention to Lev Levinson’s analysis of the latest amendments to criminal legislation. Also, be sure to read the section “Behind the Wall” featuring Alexander Avgust’s description of everyday routine in psycho-isolation prison cells as seen by the author’s own eyes, and a story by prisoner Eduard Mikhailov.
As usual, the new issue features official penitentiary statistics and more excerpts from the Prisoner Rights Defence Foundation chronicles about developments and incidents in correctional facilities.
The new issue sums up some results of 2010. The section “Vocal solo” reviews last year’s major events by way of reprinting the full collection of Dmitry Bykov’s weekly pamphlet poems from Novaya Gazeta. The main section features reflections on social and personal security (a sociological essay by Boris Dubin); on trampling down the law under the disguise of justice administration (articles by L. Golovko and G. Pasko); on secret services’ degradation (a story by A. Soldatov and I. Borogan), and other materials. In the “History” section, you will find a detailed and very interesting narrative “The Yudin Case” by V. Topolyansky, and S. Grigoryants’ memoirs about the Chistopol prison at the dawn of perestroika.
