RIGHT TO KNOW – 2012: the winners are declared

The Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation together with the Law Firm "YUST" held a contest of journalism papers on the problems of justice and protection of rights of organizations and individuals – the “RIGHT TO KNOW”. The Guild of Court Reporters was a strategic partner of the event. Journalists, reporters and photoreporters, mass media staff members as well as independent practitioners, were invited to participate.
Materials of all genres were accepted except interviews: stories, articles, pamphlets, feuilletons, essays, journalist’s investigations, reportages and photoreportages.

Winners of the First All-Russian Contest of Journalism Papers “RIGHT TO KNOW-2012”:

1. “A CONFLICT IN A CHEST” for the best coverage of precedents and collision –
Elena Tiurina, publication “We will teach you journalism! Now bring your cash”, “Browser” students’ newspaper of the Voronezh State University (city of Voronezh);

2. “HUMAN AND POWER” for the best analytics and journalist’s investigations of cases arising out of administrative legal relations –
Dmitry Kizianov, publication “Overcoming barriers”, “Sovetskaya Adygeya” newspaper, (city of Maykop);

3. “CRIME AS PUNISHMENT” for the best analytics and journalist’s investigations of criminal offence cases –
Tamara Kirichenko, publication “Evil Fate”, “Khakasia” newspaper (city of Abakan);

4. “LABYRINTHS OF ETHICS” for the best coverage of the problem of morality and ethics in the professional activity of lawyers –
Georgy Ramazashvili, publication “Dangerous Precedent”, “Svobodnaya Mysl (Free Thought)” magazine (city of Moscow);

5. “TO PROTECT A MAN” for the best coverage of problems in the area of observing the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Human Rights Convention –
Olga Boguslavskaya, publications “Mother in three moves” and “Mother in three moves – 2”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets” newspaper (city of Moscow);
Olga Sukinova, publication “I happily delude myself”, “Vecherny Chelyabinsk” (city of Chelyabinsk);

6. “OBJECTIVE RIGHT” for the best photo work –
Andrey Stenin, a RIA Novosti photographer (city of Moscow);

7. “JUST JOKING” –
Konstantin Maler, cartoonist artist of Pravo.RU news portal (city of Moscow);

8. SPECIAL AWARD from the Law Firm "YUST" for personal contribution to the development of a steady relationship between the mass media and the members of the legal community –
Olga Kostikova, Head of the Service of Promotion and Development of the Russian Legal and Judicial Information Agency.

9. SPECIAL AWARD from the Federal Chamber of Advocates of Russia for the director’s work on the documentary “Defender Ariya” about the Russian advocate Semen Lvovich Ariya –
Alexander Marutyan, cinema director.

The organizers send their special gratitude to the regions for their activity and interest in the competition. Beside Moscow journalists, mass media workers from Saint Petersburg, Republics of Adygeya, Altay, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Karelia, Tatarstan, Khakasia, Udmurtia; Altayskiy, Zabaykalskiy, Krasnodarsky, Kranoyarsky, Permsky Territories; Regions of Amurskaya, Belgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Nizhegorodskaya, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Chelyabinsk.

The jury of experts pointed out the high quality of most papers.

Konstantin Katanyan, Chairman of the Council of the Guild of Court Reporters on the work by Dmitry Kizianov:
“It is very topical and very vividly written: a concrete example as well as generalizations [are present]. There are references to normative acts in the text, but not too many of them. Easy to read, well written”.

Olga Pleshanova, Editor in Chief of Zakon.RU portal on the work by Elena Tiurina:
“I liked one material by Elena Tiurina, headline “We will teach you journalism! Now bring your cash”. The material is professionally made, the genre of a journalist’s investigation is strictly stuck to, opinions of the protagonists and experts are given. Plus – the description is interesting and of quality from the point of view of language and literature. It was a pleasure to read, even if the material was not on a strictly professional legal subject”.

Advocate Lev Bardin on the work by Olga Boguslavskaya:
“This material is different by its topicality, its argumentation, which is balanced and not against the law, and its measured emotionality. It is from the articles like this that the readers receive the information, which gives them “the right to know”. Also, such publication may serve as a basis for a prosecutor’s check, at least, of the facts contained therein”.

More information on the winners and their works will be available at the ceremony of awards, which will take place at 15:00 on December 20 of 2012, at the FCA of Russia (Moscow, Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane, 43).

For the issues of accreditation of mass media, please contact the Press Service of the Law Firm "YUST":
Contact person – Tatiana Samarina

e-mail: samarina@YUST.RU;
Telephone: +7 903 795 89 67.