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Can President Medvedev fix the courts in Russia? The first year / by Peter H. Solomon, Jr. - S. 2-4 The second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky / by Bill Bowring. - S. 5-7 No crime, no punishment: on the end of the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial / by Angelika Nussberger and Yury Safoklov. - S. 8-12

In Norwegian Military Judicial System, the Judge Advocate General's corps belongs to the Prosecution Authority and is under the Ministry of Justice in peace, while in wartime administratively integrated into the armed forces. In peacetime its status is civilian, changing to military in wartime. The Norwegian military system of summary punishments is laid down in the Military Disciplinary Act of 20 May 1988, supplemented by disciplinary regulation by Royal Decree of 16 December 1988. Military commanders can impose summary punishments to officers and servicemen under their command

"Courts in Russia present a conundrum. The conventional wisdom paints a dismal picture, portraying them as deeply politicized, hopelessly corrupt, and often incompetent. There is more than a kernel of truth in this image. Powerful actors in the Russian Federation have proven themselves capable of influencing and even dictating the outcome of cases that interest them through political pressure and/or financial payoffs. The dictates of the law can take a back seat to the parochial concerns of the powerful. Although such cases dominate the media coverage of the courts and, consequently, have come to serve as the popular image of courts for many observers, in Russia and beyond, their actual numbers are small. Of the millions of cases that Russian courts hear every year, the vast majority are of interest only to those involved. In these everyday cases, judges hew closely to the law. Indeed, on occasion their positivistic adherence to the letter of the law blinds them to the underlying equities of a case"--