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“They oppress me, yet I don’t broke” - Victor Filinkov did not plead guilty under torture for the “Network” case and was sent to prison for seven years, now he explores Chat GPT at large

Submitted by Редакция on 3 April, 2025 - 00:09

In 2018 Victor Filinkov was a 23-year old programmer and a left-wing activist. Suddenly he became the suspect of the “Network” case - young people from Penza, Moscow and other cities allegedly created a terrorist organization.

What 2024 Brought: "Trends of chaos and order," episode 190

Submitted by Редакция on 16 January, 2025 - 02:03

Hey everyone! The year of 2024 is coming to an end. During these 12 months, there's been as much bad as good. All that has happened needs to be thought about and analysed, as the one who doesn't understand the past won't have any future. That's why we decided in the year's last episode of "Trends" to collect the four most popular episodes from the year and freshen up our memories of what happened, how, and what we thought about it.

The podcast was released in Russian on December 30 and was translated by our volunteers.

Columns

Cossacks and Maroons

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Maroon communities of Americas are of interest to anti-authoritarian left of the area, looking for inspiration outside White/European context. One way to explain history of Cossacks of Ukraine to an American Leftist would be to define it as European analogue of a Maroon society. Listen this...

1 day ago

Repression against anarchists and anti-fascists in Russia - presentation in Baltic Anarchist Bookfair 2026

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I will give a presentation about repression against anarchists and anti-fascists in Russia at the Baltic Anarchist Bookfair in Tartu next Saturday at 1 PM EET/Moscow time (12 PM CET) at Hell (Tiigi 76A). You can also follow the presentation on Twitch. Short summary fo the talk:  After...

6 days ago

Short introduction to the Finnish party system

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In September 2024, I gave a presentation in Dresden about struggles against the right-wing government in Finland. Freedom published a text based on that presentation last September, but due to character limitations I had to skip an introduction to the Finnish party system. This background is...

4 months ago

Russia plans to declare anti-war Telegram channel a “terrorist organisation”

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Repression targets Chita anarchists already jailed for war resistance and anti-regime graffiti The regional prosecutor’s office for the Trans-Baikal region in eastern Siberia has submitted a petition to a local court to recognize the “Trans-Baikal Left Association” as a terrorist...

5 months ago