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Penal system

An exchange between renowned novelist and jailed ex-oligarch opens a buried history
In May 2008 the newly-elected President Medvedev, himself a lawyer, promised legal reform in Russia, but there are few signs of it as yet
Penal colonies still hold thousands of prisoners in the Kirov Oblast
Russia's latest contract-kiilings are a warning: don't be different.  Plus: Novaya's Gazeta's inquest, and Anastasia Baburova's moving blog
Why it's time for the state to say that execution contravenes a deeper law
How Lev Usyskin got booked in his car for an offence he didn't commit, how he took the traffic police to court and what he learned about Russian justice from the experience
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