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January 26, 2006
This makes me sad.
I can't believe (well, I can) that Mixail Khodorkovsky has been placed in solitary confinement - for having, of all things, a copy of the ministry of justice's code of conduct for prisoners. Did none of the clauses cover the fact that prisoners are forbidden to possess the code at all? First, shipping him off to Siberia, and now this?
Life in a gulag seems unimaginable for such a fine-featured man. Or for anyone. But then I'm a Vonnegut-loving "humanist" who has trouble accepting any kind of confinement-based penal system.
Remember back in August when he went on a hunger strike to protest his friend Lebedev's placement in a "punishment cell"? I shudder to imagine what a Russian "punishment cell" might entail.
Posted by michele at January 26, 2006 2:10 PM
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I cant understand the russia justice.I am from germany and i like the russian people and there country.But the politics..suck.when i go to berlin and i see the new russia high society..the oligarch ladys..i wondered.But..all this cant change my relations to russia.
I like bortsch.
Michael
Posted by: micha at January 29, 2006 6:41 AM