27/2007
Index/Dos'e na Tsenzuru. Issue # 27
This issue of the magazine we dedicated to the problem of arbitrariness of the law-enforcement bodies and absence of the public control over them. We wished to show that in Russian society law-enforcement institutes received unwarrantable power upon the citizens which they use it without any consideration of norms of law and ethics. In fact, the law-enforcement structures have created their own patterns of interaction of the power and society which can be expressed briefly: we defend you, so bear our arbitrariness. Besides, these unlawful patterns gain ground as general models of attitude of the authoriries to the simple citizens of the country. Our authors also reflect on the possibility of the civic contol upon activities of the law-enforcement bodies.
