Leningrad region

‘You could call me a partisan.’ Ruslan Sidiki recounts his anti-war actions

Submitted by Редакция on 22 February, 2025 - 00:28
Ruslan Sidiki

A Russian and Italian citizen, an electrician from [the Russian city of] Ryazan, an industrial tourist, a bike traveller, an anarchist and a partisan – all this can be said about 36-year-old Ruslan Sidiki. In the summer of 2023, he dispatched four drones with explosives to attack the Diaghilev military airfield near Ryazan, and in the autumn, he decided to act “from the ground” – damaging railway lines with two bombs and derailing 19 freight train wagons. Sidiki is currently awaiting trial in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, with the prospect of a life sentence hanging over him.

This happened in Russia: workers’ occupation of Vyborg’s pulp and paper mill

Submitted by Редакция on 16 May, 2024 - 15:25

Our translation of the Antijob project article.

Not so long ago we wrote about the occupation of mills and factories in Argentine, but as our subscribers rightly noted something similar, but unfortunately on a smaller scale and with its own specifics, had happened in Russia’s modern history as well. 

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Solidarity Networks in Russia 2014-2018

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