The Ukrainian authorities obstruct the working of the company "Ferrexpo"

Kyiv district administrative court banned the All-Ukrainian union, People's Solidarity "in the conduct of a protest against the actions of the company Ferrexpo, aimed at depriving the workers controlled by it Poltava ore mining and processing of their pension benefits.

The European Commission is planning to unify and prevail upon the law on asylum.

The European Commission plans to introduce a single legislation on asylum throughout the EU, resulting in Germanic law on refugees, tightening in 1993, may be considerably weakened.

As a result, Germany may lose the right to deport alleged refugees directly from the transit zones of airports. The Commission also plans to limit time for consideration of asylum applications by six months with possibility of renewal proceedings another six months.

July 9 in Kiev will be held court over one of the applicants co-organizers of the march on June 10 the campaign there was no police state

More recently, in Ukraine stronger protests of citizens who are outraged killings and torture in the police and arbitrariness on the part of law enforcement officials, who by law must protect the citizens. At the moment the authorities want to prosecute innocent people - the organizers of the protests on trumped-up protocols on administrative violations.

Continued action against the authoritarian state in Ternopil

July 5 Left student activists of Ternopol, as well as friends from Kiev and Lviv was held a rally against the establishment of an authoritarian state. Protestors opposed to the introduction of electronic student cards, restrictions on freedom of mass assembly and once again expressed their solidarity with the defenders of the Gorky Park in Kharkov.

In Norway, in a refugee camp rolled riot

Tuesday night at the camp on fire for illegal migrants in the city of Lier province Buskerud in Norway. It was informed by the police department Buskerud province. Burned down three buildings where foreigners were living with their families, before obtaining the waiver of the Norwegian authorities the right to stay in the country. This is one of the two refugee camps, where riots broke out on Tuesday.

Feminists burned a bag with money in protest

7 yaiyulya Swedish feminist party organized a public burning of the bag with the collected 100 thousand Swedish kronor (about 13 thousand dollars) in protest against the wage gap between men and zhenschinami.Kak said party leader Gudrun Schumann (Gudrun Schyman), burnt money symbolize is the amount that Swedish women lose at any moment due to lower income compared with men.

The strike on the railways in Italy

At the Italian railways held a regular 24-hour strike. The campaign will last from 21.00 on Thursday 8 July to 21.00 on Friday 9 July. It will lead to cancellation of hundreds of trains and significant difficulties to travel on many routes.
Among the canceled trains - many international from Italy to Switzerland and the individual trains in Austria and France. Cancelled as a number of major domestic and regional flights.

Employees of the company "EmbaMunaiGas began an indefinite strike

Since early July workers of the production branch "EmbaMunaiGas JSC Exploration Production KazMunaiGas (KMG) began an indefinite strike. The reason for this action was an attempt by the company's management to introduce a new method of calculation, and payroll. The workers are confident that with the new payroll system will be lifted allowances for adverse conditions. in terms of leadership is changing the main part of wages: bonuses for work in the industry will be lifted.

The phenomenon of "maritime guerrilla becomes nationwide

It seems that the phenomenon of "maritime guerrilla" became popular in Russia. Satellite just a few weeks after the tragic events in the Maritime Territory, Perm in the Urals and Bashkortostan according to several media launched an organized group, a similar "seaside guerrillas." June 12 was attacked by a post near the town Suksun DPS (highway Perm-Ekaterinburg), July 3, were shot Inspector DPS in Bashkortostan.

Released eighth newsletter of the "sailor's cap"

Was published in August newsletter of the "sailor's cap" (2 pages, A4), published by the Crimean group of autonomous operation.

Another "hot topic" is devoted to the situation in Sevastopol related

The "Crimean unrest" is about

Download the June issue of "caps" could be right here. Below is a file in pdf-format.

By shooting against a criminal case, because the accused judge untouchable for life

Prosecutors saw no fault of the judges of the court of Kiev Darnytsa Volk in a shooting incident that occurred in the village Bobritsa Kanev district of Cherkasy region. According to local media, the judge gave to the gay riot at a local coffee shop while firing an entire clip in his pistol "Makarov" a local resident, Alexander. The youth was hospitalized with gunshot wounds, he is in intensive care.

Russian state expertise said that words of the late left-wing lawyer Stanislav Markelov are "extremist"

Andrey Kutuzov, Tyumen State University reader and anarchist, who is suspected of public calls for extremist action (felony in Russia), was finally given a copy of expertise of his books and other materials, seized during search at his flat. An expert of criminal lab of Federal Security Service (FSB) in Sverdlovsk region Svetlana Mochalova, in particular, analyzed article "Patriotism as a diagnosis" by Stanislav Markelov and several other articles published in the Avtonom magazine No. 31. Based on this analysis, the expert concludes that the magazine "contains information of extremist orientation - namely, forceful change of  constitutional order and violation of the integrity of the Russian Federation, inciting of social  discord, violation of liberties and legitimate interests of people and citizens according to their social class".

Full text of the expertise.

New project in Moscow Antiracist Initiative "Direct Help"

Antifascist and antiracist movement is growing, and much more often faces with repressions and provocations from the State and neo-Nazis. That's why in the end of March we organized an Antiracist Initiative (further A.I.) "Direct Help", which united not indifferent people from antifascist and human rights movements. We are glad to show you the first activity report inside of a months of our initiative.

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