2012, the former peoples deputy was sentenced to 15 years in prison in august of that year. Shepelevs defense is also appealing this verdict, and the decision of the Supreme Court judges in the escape case opens up considerable prospects for significantly reducing the term of imprisonment, because it is believed that the Supreme Court actually establishes precedents on which judges of lower instances rely when making their decisions, decisions of the Supreme Court, they are binding for other courts, lower appeals, courts of first instance, and these are the requirements of procedural codes, that is, the Supreme Court has both legal and informal, huge, huge influences on how the judicial system works in principle, absolutely wild decisions of the Supreme Court in many cases, this is all an indicator of huge problems, which are the Supreme Court, moreover, after, as far as we understood, how difficult and wild the situation is there, we called the judges of the criminal court of cassatio
Coming elections that we are diverting o our attention away from the many other reissues that are causing violence in congot and we are wasting the opportunity to tackle these other issues. Based on 18 years of research, including several years living and working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my statement that there is effective ways to help the conflict. The approach to the congolese crisis by realizing that there are many other causes of violence beyond the political issues and the democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to local peacebuilding and to put vocal actors in the driver seat. The delay in Holding Elections is only one among the many issues that fuel the ongoing violence in congo and importantly local conflicts at the village or district level also feel fuel expense of violence. To be clear, national and International Leaders regularly manipulate vocal arm groups,
There are seats on the wings of the room who need a place to set. Sit. Youre welcome to see it of course. It is great to welcome everyone to this evening of conversation in discussion about our christian witness in the 21st century. The occasion is of course his new book on the benedict option. But before i introduce the imminent speaker i want to thank the cosponsors of this event. One of the sponsors is first things manganese magazine that i edit. And the other sponsor is plow and i would like to think peter munson for contributing so much for making this evening happen. It was really peters idea to have a big event like this to mark the publication of this important book. I would also like to thank the folks at the american conservative where he is a Senior Editor and a tireless blogger. And as we all know. In fact right now he is posting the folks at the american conservative in the folks at plow and i would like to thank those of us for trying to think about how to move forward in
Welcome. Its saturday october 19th. Good morning. Rosemary has a quick peek at that saturday forecast. Good morning. Yes. We are going to hold onto our pleasant weather through your weekend. Its a chilly start if you are stepping out early this morning. Upper 30s to upper 40s around the bay and along the coast. Patches of fog this morning as well. We will see mostly sunny throughout the afternoon with a little change in the temperatures, a cooldown in the extended forecast. I will have that extended forecast for you. Ly have your numbers for today. Where we are seeing the patches of fog and who seeing the coldest weather coming up. Its day two of the latest bart strike and there are no indications that its going to end any time soon. Transit officials are warning that for the future, commutes will take longer than normal. We are live at the bart station. I can see striking workers continuing to picket. Reporter thats right. Workers are on strike and the Union Members pledged to maintai
Good morning, its thursday, march 3, welcome to morning joe. We have a lot to get to this morning. Some breaking news developing late last night. With us we have veteran columnist in and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. President and ceo of politico jim vandehei. Pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham. You won a pew litzer . He loves everyone knowing about that. He took a picture. And in washington, michael steele. Managing editor of Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin also with us. Mike, you obtained a copy of the speech that mitt romney is going to be giving later today. He is going to be slamming donald trump, calling him and i got this, willie, mark got a little bit of exactly what hes going to say. Calling him let me see if this is seringly clear enough. Calling him a phony, a fraud and playing the American People for suckers. So i guess hes not going to mince words today. And a stark contrast from four years ago when he stood with donald trump and saw his support when he was r