Issue # 14-2007. Content

In the first material of the issue the advocate Boris Palgov analyzes the course of the court reform in today Russia and comes to conclusion: it’s too early to speak that the reform has really improved the situation of the simple citizen.

The second material is an abstract from the new book by Vladimir Kuzemko Notes of the operative officer.

In the same part of the issue we publish (as it became traditional for the magazine) the penitentiary statistics, the official data of the Criminal Situation in Russia and the monitor on the protest actions of prisoners.

In the following part The boundaries of misunderstanding we publish some materials dedicated to the discussion of the so called sections of discipline and order in today Russian penitentiary system. Their opinion express well-known lawyers and Human rights activists Valeri Abramkin, Mara Poliakova, Tamara Morschakova, Serguei Kovalev, Liudmila Alekseeva, Henri Reznik and also Evgueni Ihlov, Boris Panteleev and the psycologist Serguei Yenikolopov.

In this part we published also the actual material by Valeri Abramkin on the situation in the colony for juvenile delinquents (near S. Petersburg)

In the following part From official lips we give the floor to Yuri Aleksandrov who expresses the opinion of the penitentiary service on the work of “the sections of discipline and order”.

The materials of the part Behind the Wall are dedicated to the situation of children in children’s homes.

Marina Ternovskaya, the well-known director of the children’s home # 19 The Centre of the patronage education, speaks on her own experience of the work and the practice of patronage education that is under the threat because of the new Russian laws.

In the last part Histories are published the literary and publicist texts:

a short novel by Oleg Pavlov What a Flavor!, a short novel by Aleksandr Mulenko The Short-termed visit and an essay by the philologist Aleksandr Sidorov on a well-known song popular in the criminal culture.

In the issue we publish information on new books on our themes.

Nevolia. Issue # 14-2007. Print version (PDF, Russian, 772Kb)