theme №1 05.04.1996 (1996)

A fragment of the feature film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed".

A survey of passers-by (repeat of 1992): "Do you believe in the fairness of the sentence?" In the studio: the issue of the procedure for paperwork in the courts; the fairness of the issuance of court decisions and sentences.

The issue of bribery of judges is considered.

Plot: The history of the judicial system in Russia.

Drawings and engravings of court sessions in the Russian Empire.

Revolutionary chronicle.

A meeting of the NKVD troika of the USSR. Places of detention: prison, camps: logging.

The courtroom.

A car for transporting the arrested person.

Engravings from the history of the times of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great.

The building of the modern city court.

In the studio: The results of four years: the work of the Arbitration and Constitutional Courts, the emergence of jury trials.

The need for judicial reform: the problems faced by judges.

Questions from the audience: human rights activist Andrei Babushkin, human rights activist Viktor Sokirko.

Plot: Jury trial.

Supreme Court building.

Jury hearing.

Prosecution and defense.

Sentencing.

Synchronized: Aleksandr Dzyban, judge of the Moscow Regional Court.

Questions from the audience: Chairperson of the Moscow City Court Svetlana Marasanova.

The meaning of Article 69 is explained.

The problem of overcrowding in pretrial detention centers.

Topic: Pretrial detention centers.

Prisons in Moscow, pretrial detention centers.

Prison in the USA. Pretrial detention center in Moscow - Matrosskaya Tishina.

Prisoners' cells.

Medical department in the prison.

Prisoners on a walk.

Opinion from the audience: Chairman of the Moscow Bar Association Yuri Kostanov, Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia Yevgeny Sidorenko.

Topic: Judicial systems abroad.

Court in Italy.

Cities in America.

Court in the USA, England.

Cases of American justice.

American prisoners.