| Restorative justice taking root in Ukraine
Krasnogvardeisk, Crimea—Five boys, ages 11-18, stole 28 cell phones from a consignment store in an open market in this city of 15,000 people in the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine. Just outside the city three boys, ages 10-12, caused extensive damage to irrigation systems and crops. In both cases, the offenders were identified and the judge referred the cases to a newly formed victim-offender mediation group, Harmonia. Galina Saditchko, an attorney and founding member of the mediation group has mediated 23 cases. With the exception of one case, the offenders and victims have been able to negotiate agreements that were presented to the court for implementation. "Personally, I hate sending juveniles into the penal colonies (detention facilities) or prison." said Judge Marina Kiruhina, the only judge in Crimea who refers cases involving young offenders to the mediation group established by the Ukrainian Centre for Common Ground (UCGG).
Jet Airways to buy Air Sahara
The two Indian airlines will soon merge after a failed attempt last year, making the second biggest airline by fleet in the country.
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Touts Karol's Experience
This is the time of year when this publication is filled with letters of support for various candidates for school board elections. As a former member of the East Williston Board of Education, I have a unique perspective on the traits necessary to make an individual an effective school board member. As a parent who has completed the entire K through 12 cycle, I have witnessed our educational programming at each grade level. As a taxpaying citizen and self-employed businessman, I am acutely aware of taxes and the cost of maintaining qualified and dedicated employees and the need to keep those costs in check. The East Williston School District is in a period of great transition. A new superintendent has recently been selected. A new middle school principal search has been launched.
Qualcomm and Nokia: lowering expectations on a swift resolution
The public posturing by Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. remains consistent in the hours after their cross-licensing agreement expired after midnight last night, while both parties appear to suggest they will be patient in their attempts to reach a new agreement.
Both sides appear ready for a lengthy period of continued negotiation, while investors and wireless industry players interest in the parties next moves is certainly at a peak. Will the two parties refrain from further legal challenges to give negotiators room to breathe? Or will legal challenges actually increase to ratchet up pressure on the other side? Will a third partysuch as the American Arbitration Association, requested by Qualcommstep in?
A Nokia spokeswoman reassured consumers today that the expiration of a cross-licensing agreement governing intellectual property rights between the two parties would not affect them.
US 'sceptical' on Zim mediation
Harare - A wave of state-orchestrated violence continues unabated in Zimbabwe, despite an admission by President Robert Mugabe to southern African counterparts that his security forces were overreacting, the US ambassador to Zimbabwe said on Monday. US ambassador Christopher Dell said presidents from southern African countries meeting last week behind closed doors in Tar Es Salaam, Tanzania, told Mugabe his police had been excessive in beating and torturing government opponents. The summit called last Thursday by the Southern African Development Community appointed President Thabo Mbeki to mediate a solution to Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis, Dell said in a telephone interview from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, However, Dell said he was "sceptical about the prospects of this initiative leading to anything like a positive outcome," considering the past performance of Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" with Zimbabwe.
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