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Index/Dos'e na Tsenzuru. Issue 30

The issue of Index/Dos’e na Tsenzuru opens with the section Solo for a Voice where the sociological article by Boris Dubin Without Court on the attitude of Russian citizens to their legal system.

The central section is fully dedicated to the analysis of today situation of Russian court system. The detailed article on the history of trial by jury in the post-Soviet is prepared on the basis of conferences of former federal judge Serguei Pashin. The material of Anastasia Kornia and Natalia Kostenko relates on the partiality of Russian court. Olga Suhareva analyzes the real possibilities of citizens when they go to the law. Two materials (Anna Pushkarskaya and Liana Nalbandian) inform on the crisis in the Constitutional Court. The theme of Kirill Podrabinek is the authority of a judge. Mikhail Khodorkovski reflects on rational court reform. Oleg Pavlov’s essay is dedicated to the traditional Russian feeling for law and order. In his short story Naum Nim describes the injustice of Soviet and post-Soviet trial.

Further the authors of the magazine (Dmitri Florin, Georgui Zelms, Yuri Ryzhov, Ernst Cherny, Georgui Ramazashvili, Ivan Markelov, Boris Panteleev, Aleksandr Zimbovski) relate the real court stories.

The story of Irina Gordienko is about the death of a man under investigation in prison. Though responsible for this death is the penal institution, the man was arrested by the decision of the court that was evidently aware of the housing conditions in this prison.

The next part of this section under the title Strasbourg: the main town of Russia shows the possibilities of international defence (the authors: Olga Shepeleva, Anna Stavitskaya, Grigori Pasko).

In the section Bounderies of misunderstanding the magazine suggests material on the traditionally punitive attitude to law (Serguei Korolev) and articles on how the ideas of tolerance expand habitual limits of law (Nils Christie, Iakov Guilinski, Rostislav Gorchakov).

The section History suggests a series of materials about repressions and reprisals that always were approved by the law system of the state (Serguei Grigoriants, Victor Topolianski, Aleksei Mokrousov, Yuri Tutov).