Issue # 18-2008. Content

The issue opens with “Izvestki”, a publication by Dmitry Morachevsky. From his personal experience, the author tells the story of a boy who breaks the law and is initially placed in a preliminary detention facility for children and then in a special school. The story is a unique evidence of barbaric conditions in which children are kept in such educational institutions not open for public inspection. The importance of such eyewitness story can only compare to that of the prosaic publication by Ruben Galiego who reveals the truth about what really goes on in government-run nursing homes for handicapped children.

The “Punishment of the Society” section opens with statistics of crime in Russia and an update of the criminal penitentiary system.

The next publication by Vassily Malinin (Doctor of Law and member of the Saint Petersburg City College of Lawyers) carries the title of “Combating drug trafficking: success or fabrication of criminal cases?” and addresses the widely practiced fabrication of criminal cases against rank and file drug users.

Next in item of the section is the Monitor of Protest Acts by Inmates, which has become a traditional element of each issue of the magazine. This time it covers protest acts by inmates in Russia between October and December 2008.

The “Sit Down and Read” section offers “The Barrack” - an essay commemorating Aleksander Solzhenitsyn by Oleg Pavlov, a well-known writer and recipient of the Booker award in literature.

The section also contains a critical review by Aleksey Mokrousov of Boris Grigoryev and Boris Kolokolov’s book “The everyday life of Russian gendarmes” printed by Molodaya Gvardiya Publishing House in 2007.

The “History” section presents “Citizen Pirates”, an article by Rostislav Gorchakov about little-known political processes that shook up the remote country of Siam in late 1930-s. Few researches outside that country are aware of the described events.

The last section, “Law and/or Justice” contains “Prior to the End of Term”, a legal publication by Yuri Aleksandrov examining all lawful options (other than review of judgment) for inmates to be released from prison before the end of their term.

Nevolia. Issue # 18-2008. Print version (PDF, Russian, 1Mb)