Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CHAPEL Duncan
Anastasia Spartak’s pamphlet , “Putin’s Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses ’Antifascism’ to Justify the War in Ukraine”offers a necessary and largely effective dismantling of the Kremlin’s cynical manipulation of antifascist rhetoric to legitimise its brutal invasion of Ukraine. This (…)
, by Posle Editorial, Russian Socialists for a world without annexations
Below are two statements — one by Russian Socialists for Peace Without Annexations, the other an editorial by the Posle Media collective — produced on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The statements take a revolutionary left stance on the negotiations underway (…)
, by DUTOV Stanislav, MAS Cristina
Stanislav Dutov (Dnipro, 1990) was a chemistry student until he joined the Ukrainian Azov battalion in 2015. He fought in the city of Mariupolo against the Russian invasion and was besieged for seven months in the Azovstal steel plant with his comrades. He was captured and imprisoned in Russia (…)
, by SHEIN Oleg
On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleg Shein, a Russian historian and former member of the Russian State Duma (parliament), assesses the political situation in Russia both now and in the future.
I entered political life on the left in 1989. It was a time of deep (…)
, by Meduza.io
In December 2023, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the arrest of a dual Russian-Italian citizen accused of attacking a military airfield and sabotaging a railway line. The suspect was Ruslan Sidiki, a 36-year-old anarchist, long-distance cyclist, and electrician. Now in pretrial (…)
, by SKOBOV Aleksandr
Journalist and historian, former Soviet dissident Alexandre Skobov, imprisoned since 2 April 2024, is currently being tried for his political convictions. He is accused of “terrorism”. Desk Russie publishes his statement via videoconference from Syktyvkar prison, during the hearing at the 1st (…)
, by COYNASH Halya
Russia first claimed that Ukrainians defending their country were ‘terrorists’ trying to ‘violently seize power’, and is now bringing ‘terrorism’ charges against Sergei Davidis for rightly calling the POWs political prisoners
Sergei Davidis, Head of the authoritative Memorial Support for (…)
, by SKOBOV Aleksandr
The closing statement to the Petersburg military court in Russia, made last week by the historian and political activist Aleksandr Skobov, in his trial on charges of publicly condoning terrorism and organising a “terrorist community”. The charges relate to social media posts. Republished with (…)
At the end of March 2024, the mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a criminal case for “justifying terrorism”. Miftakhov pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. The case itself emerged after a prisoner, whom the anarchist considered (…)
, by European Network in Solidarity with Ukraine and against war
Recently, politicians Yulia Navalnaya, Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza announced a new action on March 1 - dedicated to the assassinations of Navalny and Nemtsov, as well as the anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine - under the slogan “Putin, stop killing”. (…)
, by Solidarity Zone
Solidarity Zone, which supports people arrested in Russia for anti-war actions, tells the story of political prisoner Igor Paskar. Reposted from Solidarity Zone’s web site.
Igor Paskar has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for two anti-war actions.
In June 2022, in the (…)
, by FIKUS
What is it like for women convicted under anti-war articles? How does carceral violence intersect with gender today? Feminist and anti-war activist Fikus talks about women political prisoners in Russia
“For a year, I have been asking myself: how could this have happened? All my life I have (…)
, by ASTASHIN Ivan
Why are there no mass anti-war demonstrations in Russia? What do individual protest actions against Putin’s regime look like? How do people resist the logistics of war? Solidarity Zone activist Ivan Astashin recounts a short history of anti-war protest in Russia
How did we respond to the (…)
, by ASTASHIN Ivan, CAMPBELL Thomas, hecksinductionhour, LEONIDOVICH Alexander
Muscovite Ivan Astashin knows firsthand what human rights activism, Russian prisons, and terrorism and arson charges look like. As a young man, he was close to Eduard Limonov’s National Bolsheviks and was arrested as part of the high-profile Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization (ABTO) case, (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The Daniel Singer Foundation has designated Boris Kagarlitsky as its first recipient of the “Prisoner of Conscience Award.”
Daniel Singer (1926-2000), a Jewish-Polish journalist and writer living in France, was a committed democratic socialist, and a sharp critic of Stalinism and (…)
, by FINIAREL’ Alexander
How do the attitudes of people most loyal to the Russian regime change? Why do loyalists constantly engage in conflict with the authorities? Political scientist Alexander Finiarel’ discusses the social contract in a warring Russia
Following the declaration of partial mobilization in Russia on (…)
, by LATYPOVA Leyla
A court in Russia’s republic of Bashkortostan sentenced prominent local activist Fayil Alsynov to four years in a penal colony on charges of “inciting interethnic hatred,” the regional news outlet Idel. Realii reported Wednesday.
The case against the activist has mobilized many in the Ural (…)
Authorities in European states must immediately halt the transfer of refugees and asylum seekers from the North Caucasus back to Russia where they will be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and potentially forced to fight in Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, said Amnesty (…)
, by COLOMBO Yurii
EXCLUSIVE - Our interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, a critic of the intervention in Ukraine, Russian sociologist and left-wing activist, who has just been freed after four months of detention 1,300 km from Moscow on the unproven charge of ’approval of terrorism’
Boris Kagarlitsky, an (…)
, by MATVEEV Ilya
1/ Ekaterina Duntsova is a local activist and journalist from Rzhev, a small town in central Russia known mostly for the gruesome WW2 battles that happened there.
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