In November 1998 the international seminar ‘Prison reform in post-totalitarian countries’ was held in Donetsk. Ukrainian participants of this seminar discussed the new Penal-Executive Code. Below we shall render opposite opinions of two specialists on the goals of incarceration.

In November 1998 the international seminar ‘Prison reform in post-totalitarian countries’ was held in Donetsk. Ukrainian participants of this seminar discussed the new Penal-Executive Code. Below we shall render opposite opinions of two specialists on the goals of incarceration.

On 11 December Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had his 80 thbirthday. Nobody influenced the public opinion of the 60s-80s like Solzhenitsyn. The gift of a prophet, hate of the state violence, attention to the life of the Russian people, immense literary talent - all these features put Solzhenitsyn in the rank of the classics of Russian literature. The time will come when our epoch will be called that of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn. In order to celebrate the writer’s jubilee we publish Larisa Bogoraz’s personal remembrances on Solzhenitsyn. This is the first publication of the notes.