In Russian mainstream media, turn of the Nizhni Novgorod was handled with little revealing headlines - "Case of Nizhni Novgorod anti-fascists was returned to investigators". Thus few understood, that as a matter of fact this was perhaps the sweetest victory of Russian anti-fascist movement this year, this far.
I was invited to speak, and I agreed immediately - LAB is the biggest (or perhaps secondmost biggest, after San Fransisco) anarchist bookfair in the world, could be also the biggest annual anarchist event in the world. One may only crudely estimate number of participators, as entrance is free. Free programs were handed out, with a suggested donation of one pound. 2600 pounds were collected, which is a rather good estimation of number of participators.
Almost two months have passed since the Baltic Anarchist Meeting http://www.bam2012.org/ was organised in Tallinn of Estonia 25th-27th of May, but only now I had time to write some impressions. I haven't come across any other reports yet, but I hope they would show at some point up as I missed many of the discussions.
who are sorry with the fact I got kicked out from Russia. You know nothing about it, you have never been in the same situation and you will never be. I do not want to think about the whole issue, so do not say anything.
Consider a situation, when your feet got torn off in some accident. Would peoples condolences bring your feet back?
No they would not.
Condolences make sense when it is about some temporary loss, which you may get over with. For example, if your house burns down, you maybe may have another house at some point.
I gathered links on articles in English, Russian, Finnish and Swedish on my exile from Russia. Technically, I am not deported - it is just my residence permit annulled, and I am refused a visa. In practice, these are pretty much the same thing, actually blacklisting from a visa is even worse - deportation means five years ban of entrance, but blacklisting has no any established time limit.
Links are ordered according to language and relevance.
In English:
Russia to deport Finnish activist who plans to write a book
Helsingin Sanomat 3th of April 2012
On Thursday, the 14th of June anarchist and member of the Moscow - Autonomous Action, Antti Rautiainen, was denied his Russian visa request. The refusal was not exaplained.
Rautiainen had a Russian temporary residence permit, but it was annulled at the end of March. According to authorities, he had made "calls to violently overthrow constitutional order or Russian Federation." He was given 15 days to leave the Russian Federation.
On April 20 we made a solidarity action against political repression in
the form of the threatened deportation of Antti R. (More info about
the case: http://themoscownews.com/russia/20120404/189590201.html or http://hro.rightsinrussia.info/archive/refugees-idps/antti-rautiainen/picket)
We visited the Russian Embassy with a small picket, condemning
political repression by the state.
In the far North-West of a once mighty empire, there is a distant province, mostly known due to the sluggishness of its inhabitants. They have still not gotten rid of the statue of a czar, who ruled 150 years ago, in the central square of their capital. Inhabitants of the province have never won a single war, but they have a plenty of other reasons to be proud - for example, a ski-jumper who achieved a lot in 1980, but has since then struggled with a substance abuse problem.
On the 29th of March the Federal Migration Service of Russia gave Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen, a member of Autonomous Action, an order to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days. According to the order, Rautiainen is suspected of "making statements for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order." Migration authorities have commented, that such decisions are made according to orders from the FSB.
Rautiainen wants to appeal the decision with help of lawyers from the "Civic Action" NGO.
TerraSelvaggia is an Italian eco-anarchist paper, which made this interview with Russian Campaign to Defend Khimki Hostages last September. Paper issue came up some time ago after the usual delays, so now it is time for online publication. Keep in mind, that this interview reflects the situation in Russian society last September – before the recent massive protest against election fraud. Now much has changed since then, but much is still the same. Enjoy!
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For the beginning, about us, so that you know from which perspective we are talking.
Situation in Northern Caucasus and Libertarian reaction
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This article was originally published in Avtonom #30 in the Autumn of 2008. whole issue is available in PDF format here. It was translated for Abolishing the Borders from Below #35 in Autumn of 2009 with a number of mistakes corrected and some information updated..
It is of little doubt that the total failure of any attempts to oppose the Second Chechen War was the most bitter defeat of the Russian anarchist movement during the past decade. A feeling of total powerlesness in front of the brutal realities of the Chechenyan meat-grinder was pressing so heavily on the imagination of anti-authoritarians during the first half of the decade, that the movement was onlyable to recovere slightly when the intensity of the war gradually calmed down.
My assumption of guilt
On the arrests of the suspected murderers of StanislavMarkelov and Anastasia Baburova
Избиение коричневой мрази стало весьма популярным развлечением среди городской молодежи разных национальностей. Даже кремлевские политтехнологи, почитав «Автоном», сделали вывод, что антифашизм имеет некоторые перспективы.
«Moscow Pride ‘06 – Московский Международный Гей-фестиваль» запланирован на 24-28 мая 2006 г. Предварительная программа выключает в себя «день скандинавской гомокультуры» с семинарами и выставками, конференцию об Оскаре Уайльде (с участием его внука), первую международную конференцию Дня Против Гомофобии, культурную программу и - «самое скандальное» - первый ЛГБТ-парад. Он должен состоятся 27 мая, в день, когда исполнится 13 лет отмене уголовной ответственности за гомосексуализм.
Начнем с того, кто может являться "революционным субъектом" сегодня. Некоторые считают, что гомо- и бисексуалы – явление маргинальное, из-за чего катализатором революции быть не могут. Давайте рассмотрим статистику. Существуют очень разные данные о том, сколько на самом деле гомосексуалистов и бисексуалов. Открытые гомосексуалисты и бисексуалы, естественно, составляют небольшую долю от их общей совокупности. Но, видимо, примерно 5% от населения - гомосексуалисты, и 10% - бисексуалы. То есть, в общей сложности около 15%.
В декабре 1997 года французская левая газета "Le monde diplomatique" опубликовала передовицу о "налоге Тобина" - налоге на международные финансовые операции. С этого момента началась дискуссия, которая и привела к созданию организации ATTAС (Action pour une Taxe Tobin d'Aide aux Citoyens) в июне следующего года. Сегодня отделения ATTAС присутствуют в десятках стран, но лучше всего ATTAC обосновался во Франции: здесь насчитывается более тридцати тысяч членов и 220 региональных отделений.
"Налог Тобина"
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