May 24, 2001, 22.25 PM, Moscow

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn urged to restore the death penalty in Russia (now it is suspended by moratorium because Russia became a member of Council of Europe, where death penalty is prohibitted.) Sad finale! In "Archipelag GULAGO" as well as in his novel "The House of Cancer" Solchenitsyn bitterly criticised Bolshevics for hypocritical humanism: they abolished death penalty but continued to kill people without any court decisions.

Solzhenitsyn states that death penalty must be restored to struggle with terrorists. Certainly, terrorists are the last to be frightened with death penalty. Second, now in Chechnya thousand of people are killed by Russian troops without any investigation of their fault--isn't this again death penalty without any verdict?

Well, on my Russian part of the site I've told about the Dominican from New-York, Camille D'Arienzo, who invented Declaration of Life (writing on the busyness cards: "I hereby declare that should I die as a result of a violent crime, I request that the person or persons found guilty for my killing not be subject to or put in jeopardy of the death penalty.")

I suggested to Russians to sign this Declaration on my site and two people already supported the idea.