Issue No. 24-2011. Content

The first section, “Social Punishment”, opens with official penitentiary statistics as of August 1, 2010. Yuri Alexandrov’s column “Legal Training” comments on the latest amendments to legislation regulating the judiciary, law enforcement and executive power. It is followed by the U.S. ambassador’s Wikileaks-sourced confidential message concerning Russian prisons. An article by Alexander Zimbovsky provides details about the Sokolov case. A statement by Russian human rights defenders spells out their stand on the penitentiary system reform. It is followed by a chronicle from FDPR materials about developments and incidents within the penitentiary system, and a selection of foreign media reports about prison life in different countries of the world.

The section “Behind the Wall” features two stories by Alexander Avgust and an article by Ivan Markelov about psychiatric clinic routine.

In the “History” section, writer Sergey Stepanov publishes more of his Nizhny Novgorod chronicles.

Finally, the section “Sit and Read” features prisoner Eduard Mikhailov’s story “Snow and Coal” with a note by Vitaly Lozovsky about the author, and an except from Primo Levi’s book “The Drowned and the Saved” with a review of the book by Alexei Mokrousov.

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