"Nevolia" issues archive

# 16-2008
The issue is dedicated to the problems of persons with limited possibilities. We publish many articles on the social aspects of this problems, on rehabilitation and the situation with medicines after the adoption of so called Law #122. Various authors (among them many personally involved in the situation) analyze and give their own propositions on improvement of life for these categories of Russian population. We publish also materials and essays by courageous people who found forces not only to inscribe themselves in social life but to help others. We give also materials about the history of invalid movements in Soviet Union and United States.

# 15-2008
The new issue contains many informational materials (statistics of penitentiary system, analysis of prison industry in USA, monitor Protest Actions of Prisoners, an absract from the Report of Commissioner on Human Rights on the Human Rights situation in the places of confinement, etc.). We published also materials useful for prisoners (Yu. Aleksandrov Juridical Training and B. Panteleev Help yourself), give reports on the well-known case of the former head of Penitentiary system in Archanguelsk and events in January 2008 in the colony #15 in the region of Amur. In the part The Writers on the Prison we present interesting texts by Oleg Pavlov and Aleksandr Mulenko.

# 14-2007
The new issue is dedicated to the 2 main themes. We publish the discussion on the keen for today penitentiary system question of the lawfulness and results of activities of so called sections of the discipline and order. 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. We present also the official opinion of the reperesentative of the penitentiary service. The second theme of the issue is the situation of the children in children’s homes. The materials of Marina Ternovskaya, Albina Skripnik and Galina Semia are dedicated to the theme. As usual we publish the official statistics and the monitor Protest actions of prisoners. The literary texts are published in the last part of the issue.

# 13-2007
In this issue the central are two themes: new significant growth of the prison population in Russia and psychitric repressions in today Russia. The trend of the growth of the prison population analyzes a well-known sociologist and criminologist Yakov Guilinski. His article contens variuos statistic data illustrating the theme. The understanding of a new case of psychiatric repression gives the recent case of the Human Rights activist Larisa Arap from Murmansk (materials by Yuri Savenko, Elena Vasilieva, Albina Skripnik). Also we can't put no attention to the today serious situation in Russian prisons: the scale of problem we can understand in the monitor of protest actions of prisoners and the comments of Valerii Abramkin. Among other materials we underline the problem article of the psycologist Valeria Muhina on the role of the prison psycologist and twa materials by Maksim Prytkov on the experience of the Human Rights control and investigations of the cases on the violence of Yuman Rights be law-enforcing bodies. In the issue we publish also two fiction pieces by Aleksandr Mulenko and Oleg Pavlov and the memoirs of the well-known head of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation for the help to prisoners about volonteers of the Foundation in the past. The last part Post Mortem is dedicated to the 80 anniversary of the prison poet Valentin Sokolov.

# 12-2007
The main theme chosen by the Editorial for this issue is the problems of the sick children on the charge of the State. It is harmful to read these texts, the readers can't change the situation, but all have to know it. Here we publish texts by Aleksandr Melihov, Nina Glazkova and Ruben Gallego. Also we publish information of human rights activists and their organizations: Andrei Babushkin and the Committee For the Civil Rights, Nikolai Schur and the fund "The helping hand", Irina Protasova and organization "Man and Law". The Editorial recomends the texts by Allexandr Mulenko and Aleksandr Sidorov under the heading "Stories". Besides, the reader will find in the issue stsistical data, advices by the advocate Boris Palgov, material on the juvenal justice in Italy, an abstract of the Annual Report of the Commisioner on the Human Rights in Russia and information on the books recomended by the Editorial.

# 11-2007
The issue contains the materials on European Penitentiary Regulations and their destiny in Russian reality, with this theme correlate articles on the problems of preserving human dignity in prison. We also consider problems of co-operation of NGOs with executive power in the field. The informational and statistical materials are useful for researchers and practice advices can be applied by those who came in contact with law-enforcing bodies.

# 10-2006
The central theme of the issue is the International Conference "Prison Question: Research as an Instrument of Struggle" that took place in Moscow in October 2006. We publish the brief version of reports of the participants who consider the problems of Human Rights movements in Russia and France in 1970ies - 2000. We also publish an article of the famous Norwegian criminologist Nils Christie on the restorative justice and a material of the well-known Russian sociologist Yakov Guilinski on tortures in modern Russia, literary work, informational material, etc.

# 9-2006
The issue contains the central block where problems of the death penalty and discussion with various opinions on the theme are considered. We publish materials on the everyday of prison life, the article of the famous criminologist Nils Christie on the policy criminal justice and its influence on the health of prisoners. The teacher of prison school in the colony for minor criminals tells about his experience. We publish also some historical materials.