Last year, Father Bill Haymaker of Moldova Prisons documented the heartbreak and humiliation of prisoners' lives: 20 boys living in a cell designed for 12; 18 girls packed into a similar cell; two women, each mother of a 4-month-old, sharing a room “so small I could not extend my arms completely” - here and here; rats that are “larger than cats, and almost the size of small dogs.”
A new law “On Ensuring Access to Information about Activities of Government Bodies and Municipal Authorities” [RUS] will require, among other things, creating public Internet terminals all around Russia. But netizens question [RUS] the feasibility of the law.
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so sad