
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.
The new issue as usual contains many informational materials, as well as penitentiary statistics. Also we publish an abstract from the Annual Report of Amnesty International on the death penalty.
A reader will find here the text of A Project of a Law on colonies for minor delinquents and the text of the recently adopted law on the public control in prisons with comments and analytical articles.
We publish also materials on a famous criminal case versus Yu. Samodurov, the head of Andrei Sakharov's Foundation and Museum because of the exposition in the Museum The Banned Art.