It's hard to overestimate the publishing activity of the Foundation: in the situation of lack of legal information in this area, our books are in popular demand among parents of dead soldiers, workers of regional organizations, and judges. In view of the facts that some people sell our books, we stress that the books and other materials published by the Foundation are free. All cases of selling our publications will be made public, and the information on such cases will be passed to the law enforcement bodies.
Within the frame of the project ‘Independent Expert Examination in Cases of Servicemen's Deaths', the Foundation prepared Number 4 of the book series ‘To Parents of Dead Soldiers. Lawyer Advice' (circulation of 5000 copies). The book consists of two parts:
- 1). Answers to frequently asked questions concerning the rights of families of dead servicemen and corresponding laws;
- 2) Best trials. Each part is divided into 3 sections: the criminal trial, the civil trial, social insurance rights.
The book has 320 pages. The cover is designed according to the requirements of the European Committee. The book includes 20 unique court trials won by the Foundation lawyers within the frame of the project. They can be considered as precedent cases in Russia. The description of each case starts with a story of a serviceman's death and his parents' application to the Foundation. It ends with comments on the nuances of a won case. The book includes useful reference materials. We can say with certainty that Book No. 4, published by the Mother's Right Foundation within the project, is the best work in this area and has no analogues.
In 2008, we started sending our books to courts of the RF (2600 courts received our Book No. 4; we asked to give an evaluation of the book), as well as to the Foundation regional coordinators and organizations of soldier's parents. They spread our books among parents of dead servicemen and other interested persons for free.
Our project colleagues - the Independent Psychiatric Association - published the manual for psychiatrists ‘Prevention of Suicide in the Army' based on the materials of the Mother's Right Foundation (circulation of 1000 copies). In the course of writing the book, they analyzed the Foundation's expert materials on army suicides (2005-2008), as well as modern literature on suicidology, victimology, and modern methods defining suicide risks. The manual describes modern conceptions on suicides, problems connected with posthumous psychologic and psychiatric expert investigation of army suicides. The authors describe their original methods defining suicide, aggression, and victim risk groups, as well as methods of measuring risks in individual cases. They also give recommendations on preventing suicides. Their methods of defining combined suicide and victim risks can be successfully applied in independent military medical examinations within the frame of articles 52 and 53 of the ‘Basic Law on Health Protection' and Act No. 574 ‘On Independent Military Medical Examination' confirmed by the Russian Government on June 28, 2008.
