International School of Myanmar International School of Myanmar On September 26, 2008, YIEC was renamed to ISM (International School of Myanmar). It is located in Hlaing Township in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Rangoon, Burma). The International School of Myanmar was founded in 1998 by a group of educators and business leaders who felt there was a need for an affordable, high-quality international education option for Myanmar and expatriate students living in Yangon. From its beginnings as an International Child Zone with 48 students, the school and Colleges (WASC) and is a member of the East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS). The Elementary Building is
Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment in the Soviet Union Capital punishment was a legal penalty in the Soviet Union for most of the country's existence. The legal justification of capital punishment was found in Article 22 of the Fundamental Principles of Criminal Legislation, which stated that the death penalty was permitted "as an exceptional measure of punishment, until its complete abolition". According to Western estimates, in the early 1980s Soviet courts passed around 2,000 death sentences every year, of which two-thirds were commuted to prison terms. The death penalty was not applied to minors or pregnant women. The first person to be sentenced