Resources

The Social Center for Assistance in Reforming Criminal Justice in Moscow has produced numerous books, brochures, and reports and problems relating to criminal justice and the rights of the detained and imprisoned, including

• In Aid of Prisoners: How to Survive in a Soviet Prison (Krasnoyarsk, 1992), 192 pages.  More than 30,000 copies of this book have been distributed to prisoners and their families at no cost.  In Russian.

• Human Rights Abuses During Arrest and Detainment, volume 1 (Moscow, 1994), 80 pages.  In English and Russian.  With financial assistance from the European Union (Phare/Tacis Program), the Center has begun to develop an in-office library of materials relating to criminal justice and issues facing the Russian penitentiary system.  The Center also has begun to publish a monthly information bulletin and is in the process of publishing a manual, How to Help the Imprisoned, for human rights activists and people working on behalf of prisoners.

Source: Civil Society...East and West 4 (January-February 1996),2-3

Seattle's Center for Center for Civil Society International highly recommends four-page analysis of the 1995 Law on Charitable Activities and Organizations: A Preliminary Assessment, by Alla Kazakina and Mary S. Holland, CIS Law Notes (February 1996), available from Petterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036-6710; tel: 212-336-2000; e-mail: pbwt@pbwt.com.

OMRI Daily Digest, published by Open Media Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, distributes a Russian-language edition from a listserv in Moscow.  OMRI Daily digest covers trends and events in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Transcaucasia, Central Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe.  To subscribe to the Russian-language edition of this very valuable resource send an e-mail message to MAJORDOMO@DEMOS.SU.  Leave the subject line blank, but in the main message area type SUBSCRIBE OMRI.  More information about OMRI Daily Digest, including how to subscribe to the English version is available at http://www.omri.cz/Index.html.

Stredo Europska Nadacia (Central European Foundation), Bratislava, Slovakia, has published "Integrity in Business in Postcommunist Central Europe."  This 31-page report may be purchased by individuals and nonprofit organizations for $15, £10, or 180 ös.  Postage and handling is $2, £1.50, or 24 ös.  Contact: SEN, Liptovska 10, 82109 Bratislava, Slovakia; tel: 0042-7-521-6293; fax: 0042-7-521-6288; e-mail: miro@seb.ext.eunet.sk or 100273.270@compuserve.com.

Hockey Ministries International has produced a new Russian-language video, Hockey Beyond Belief, available for $6.50 from Triad Christian Publishing.  A number of Russian-language videos produced by Walk Thru The Bible may also be purchased from Triad: Seven Laws of the Learner (7 tapes, $50), The Testing of your Faith (3 tapes, $25), Foundations of Faith (4 tapes, $30), Teaching With Style (2 tapes, $18.00), Secrets of the Supernatural Life (3 tapes, $25), and Biblical Portrait of Marriage (3 tapes, $22.50).  All videos are PAL format and not compatible with regular US video systems.  Videos can only be ordered from Triad's Moscow office.  Contact:
 

The editor highly recommends two recent books on twentieth century Russian Orthodoxy and Russian Protestantism, respectively: A Long Walk to Church by Nathaniel Davis, and Russian Resurrection by Michael Rowe.  The Davis volume, based on extensive archival research, should now be required reading on the subject, along with The Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982, 2 vols. (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984) by Dimitry Pospielovsky, and The Russian Orthodox Church, A Contemporary History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986) by Jane Ellis.  Likewise, Russian Resurrection, despite a frustrating lack of standard documentation, offers such a storehouse of fresh material by a respected authority that it should now stand as essential reading on Russian Protestantism, along with Walter Sawatsky's highly regarded Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1981).

• Davis, Nathaniel.  A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.  381 pp. $79.50 hardback.  $27.50 paper.  tel: 303-444-3541; fax: 303-449-3356; e-mail:  kara.newcomb@harpercollins.com.

• Rowe, Michael.  Russian Resurrection: Strength in Suffering--A History of Russia's Evangelical Church.  London: Marshall Pickering, 1994. 264 pp. £8.99 paper.  77-85 Fulham Palace Rd., London, England W6 8JB, United Kingdom; tel: 081-741-7070; fax: 081-307-4440. (HarperCollins has canceled U.S. publication.)

Metaphrasis, a weekly English-language information service on religion in post-Soviet lands, includes especially strong coverage of Orthodox developments.  Each e-mail issue averages 15 pages.  North American subscription rates run $14/month (individual) and $50/month (media, research centers, and religious communities). Checks, to be made out to Orthodox Christian Book Service, are payable to First American National Bank, 1415 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104-3626. Contact: Sergei Chapnin, editor-in-chief; tel: 7-095-198-1991; tel/fax: 7-095-200-6643; e-mail: mf@glas.apc.org.

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