Keywords: Human Rights Watch; annual report; monitoring; human rights.
The essence of Human Rights Watch organisation's annual report concerning the situation with Human rights in the Russain Federation The extracts from the annual report of Human Rights Watch NGO concerning human rights situation in the Russian Federation
More...Keywords: Correctional institutions; penitentiary system; financial crisis; prison; jail; social re-adaptation.
According to official statistics, by 1999 over 1 000 000 detainees serve sentences in 987 penitentiary institutions. Article gives figures concerning prisons, its financing, medical services, education and social re-adaptation for prisoners, other subjects. With lack of financing the institutions and personnel are at the breaking point. Presently a State Duma (lower parliament) discusses draft, permitting to decrease the number of people in correctional institutions by 30%.
More...Keywords: Television; Czech Republic; Jiri Godac; freedom of speech; independent information; demonstration; strike.
For the first time after 1989’s “Velvet revolution” tens thousands of Czechs demonstrated in front of the television premises and in capital’s center. Protestors claimed the newly appointed director of public TV channel was set by ruling political circles to fix control over public media. Famous Czech journalist recounts the events that lead to his colleagues’ many days strike.
More...Keywords: Identification; fingerprint; dactylogram; dactyloscopic registration
The article gives brief historical review of various methods of identification and focuses on federal law concerning obligatory dactyloscopic registration in military and security services. Faults in this law’s implementation impede to identify persons whose professions are connected with life hazard.
More...Keywords: Pension; social benefits; retirement; military reform
Detailed review of various ways the Russian government provided military servicemen and their families with social benefits and pensions – from 18th century to present.
More...Keywords: National minorities Council of Europe; minority language; population.
Processes leading to accepting the Convention on National Minorities Protection by states– members of the European Council shown in development. What are the specifics and contents of the convention? How will it be applied in Russia? The comment published in “Human Rights Defense. International and Russian machineries.”
More...Keywords: elections; election campaign; media; freedom of speech; legal responsibility; journalists’ ethics; electoral interests.
The vital for democratic society mechanism of forming governing organs is regulated by several contradictory rules. The mismatching legal regulations may enable misuse of mass media and affects citizens’ electoral interests.
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Keywords: Primary education; institutional failures; labour market competition; principal-agent problem; vouchers; Milton Friedman
This paper identifies institutional obstacles that prevent improvement of quality of primary education in public schools in Serbia. Using microeconomic analysis author explains how the institutions generate negative incentives for employees in public schools. The author candidates Milton Friedman’s voucher model for financing primary education as a solution for this problem.
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Keywords: Students; the protests; the Bologna process; public intellectuals
The aim of this paper is to contextualize the Croatian students as subjects of social and political reality, taking into account the complexity of the historical and social conditions, as well as the specifications of the analyzed population. The first part contains a brief historical overview of the student movement framed by the hypothesis of the students as a social avanguard. The second part relates to the analysis of today’s students in Croatia on the basis of guidelines relevant to their (active) involvement in society and politics, while the final section examines how Croatian students belong to the category of intellectuals.
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Keywords: Fareed Zakaria; liberalism; illiberal democracy
This article discusses the concept of illiberal democracy primarily through work of Fareed Zakaria but also the tension between liberalism and democracy, two key components of modern democratic political systems through the works of contemporary political science authors. The author provides an overview how the concept of illiberal democracy was accepted among other theorists and democracy researchers. The paper argues that the relationship between democracy and liberalism was controversial from the beginning of linking those two segments. Contemporary political science literature, and the current political developments in democratic societies, suggests that neither political scientists nor politicians have yet devised a model that would eliminate the tension that arises from the existence of two different segments. Liberal democracies are political regimes in which compromise between liberal individualism and democratic collectivism is continually requested.
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Keywords: Intellectuals; ideology; responsibility; Zygmunt Bauman
Drawing on the classification of the roles of intellectuals, the author focuses on the issue to whom and for whom intellectuals are investing their voice. The article discusses several critical issues: firstly, the issue of a gap between theoretical knowledge and practical competences, secondly, the concept of public intellectual, thirdly, Chomsky s paradigm of the responsibility of intellectuals, and fourthly, the historical resonance of intellectuals in the neoliberal imagined society. The author opposes the views that the end of history and the end of ideology terminated the salient role of intellectuals and alternatively builds his argument on their manifold and multiple commitments in the spheres of civil society.The neoliberal order invites in this regard a number of challenges and responsibilities: an opportunity to open up new opportunities for the roles of intellectuals in the imposed market-managed and consequentially structurally changed society. Intellectuals at this very historical moment should turn from mere interpreters to legislators, as Zygmunt Bauman expects them to.
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Keywords: Serbia; Elections; religion; motives; propaganda
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Keywords: human nature; stupidity; armaments
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Zlatoje Martinov - Ideologizovani konstrukt stvarnosti (Sanja Lazarević Radak, NA GRANICAMA ORIJENTA) Mirko Đorđević - Svedok srpske strane rata (Dobrica Ćosić - Bosanski rat)
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Keywords: Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu
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