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Stephen Reed, the Democratic mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1982 to 2010, has been charged by state prosecutors with 499 counts ranging from bribery to theft by receiving stolen property.

Occupied City (2008) is the second part of a projected novel trilogy that David Peace set in the Tokyo in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing. While Tokyo Year Zero develops soon after the bombing, in 1946, this new novel is based on the notorious true-life poisoning of bank workers that took place in 1948 and whose reasons have never been cleared up. A conspiracy theory that Peace exploits in his reconstruction connects the poisoning – that goes under the name of Teigin incident – to the work of Unit 73, a Japanese covert division allegedly studying wartime chemical and biological weapons, and secretly experimenting them on war prisoners, both civilians and soldiers, basically in the Province of Manchuria, well before the Japanese surrender. What is suggested is also that the American forces were involved in covering the operations of Unit 731. While trying to recapitulate the facts that brought to the sudden awareness of the Manchurian experiments, Peace works very much on the notion of infection as both a medical process and a metaphoric representation of the Japanese reality in that particular period. The military-industrial conspiracy supported by the police cover-up is also represented highlighting also the role of the US secret service in hiding the true responsibilities of the poisoning. In terms of style, Peace tells the story paying homage to a very famous Japanese novelist and artist, Akutagawa, and borrowing from his short story "In the Grove" (then adapted as a film in Rashomon) the device of several conflicting narratives, reporting on the same facts. In a sort of literary forensic, twelve voices contribute to the portrayal, at the same time choral and intensely fragmented, of two highly different cultures facing each other.

Myanmar's recent reforms have opened an uncertain chapter in the history of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group representing one of the world's most protracted cases of statelessness. Perceived by some as illegal Bengali migrants, for decades the Rohingya have suffered discrimination, forced labour, and campaigns of violence and displacement. Over a million subsist as refugees or undocumented migrants in other countries. This paper reviews the history of the Rohingya in Myanmar, including recent violence and living conditions of those inside and outside the country. Against this background, the paper considers how Myanmar's political and economic reforms present opportunities for the government and international actors to alleviate and ultimately resolve the plight of the Rohingya. Guided by national and international laws, a strategy could emphasise ensuring security, upholding rights, particularly equal rights to citizenship, and promoting broad-based economic development, all in a nondiscriminatory manner.

Криминологический прогноз ситуации на Украине на краткосрочную перспективу не утешителен. Украинскому народу предстоит перенести нелегкие испытания, платить невинными жертвами и кровью за национальное достоинство, дружбу с соседями. Судебная и правоохранительная системы Украины будут искажены излишней политизацией. НАТО использует территорию Украины для поддержания очага напряжённости в этом регионе мира. ; The short-term criminological forecast for the situation in Ukraine is unnerving. The Ukrainian people will have to go through hard experience; they will pay with innocent victims and blood for national dignity, friendship with neighbours. The judicial and law enforcement systems of Ukraine will be distorted with excessive politicization. NATO uses the territory of Ukraine to maintain troubled areas in this part of the world.