The seminar "To journalists about a court and a trial process in the Donetsk People's Republic" organized by the press service of the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic for journalists writing on legal topics, was held from 10th to 13th October 2017.
The purpose of the seminar was to familiarize the journalistic community of the DPR with the basics of legal knowledge, legal proceedings, the structure and functioning of the judicial system.
The seminar was opened with welcoming words by Eduard Yakubovskiy the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the DPR and Yakov Hodos the First Deputy Minister of Justice of the DPR. Vladislav Sednev the head of the Department for Systematization of Legislation and Media Relations of the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR, the Senior Counselor of Justice also spoke to the audience.
Professionals – Lilia Reznikova, Natalia Mogutova and Dmitry Yeryomin the heads of the chambers of the Supreme Court of the DPR, Konstantin Likhoded the chairman of the Council of Advocates of the DPR, and other employees of the Supreme Court of the DPR have been speaking for three days to journalists and students of the Faculty of Journalism of the DonNU.
At the end of the seminar, Yulia Bezruchenko the first deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic presented audience members with certificates of completion.
The organizers of the seminar prepared additional training materials on legal topics that were distributed among the listeners.
This is how the audience members assessed the seminar:
"All reports of the speakers were at a fairly good level. The information obtained was very useful, because knowledge of the situation and rules will greatly help the possible work in court," said Yekaterina Papakina.
"I think that the information obtained was useful for all participants of the seminar, for we were told about all the subtleties of judicial work, speakers also pointed out all the stupid mistakes that journalists do. I liked the second day of the event the most, because speakers conducted it in the form of a conference, so that we could ask any questions and get detailed interesting answers," said Anastasia Stelmakh.
"There remains a pleasant aftertaste. I liked the lectures read by professional lawyers. I broadened my knowledge and received new one. Illustrative examples demonstrated the effect of laws, the behavior of journalists in different situations, coverage of the events of the media in general. I think such useful seminars should be held more often for more productive and highly qualified work of press, radio and television employees," said Alisa Rudnichenko.
"It was interesting to get acquainted with the representatives of the Supreme Court, listen to their opinion on this or that issue, understand the specifics of their work. It's great that each of them in their reports emphasized the mistakes journalists make in writing such texts," said Anastasia Miroshkina.
"Separately from all the speakers I liked two people: Dmitry Yeryomin the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court, head of the Criminal Chamber and Konstantin Likhoded the Chairman of the Council of Advocates. They gave information clearly and easily and most important – It was very interesting to listen to them," said Anastasia Donchenko.
"I liked the seminar very much! The information was useful, I wrote seven pages! I would gladly repeat these four days," said Daria Volobueva.
"A lot of useful information, exhaustive answers from lecturers, everything at the highest level," said Alexei Bezugly.
"Thank you very much for the invitation to the seminar! During the four days that I attended the seminar organized at the initiative of the Supreme Court of the DPR, I significantly expanded my horizons, got to know the main legal terms necessary for the description of a trial, learned how to convey information in a way that is understandable to both professionals and ordinary readers, I learned about the situations my colleagues faced in their court practice. It was interesting for me to listen to the representatives of the judicial system of our Republic, who told about the peculiarities of their work. I would like to continue to receive information about the work of the DPR law enforcement agencies in order to expand my knowledge and interact with the press service of the judiciary", said Alina Nekhayeva (Kochegarka newspaper).
