Last year around this time, we posted Sergey Chernov’s interview with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell when he was a guest at the Side by Side International LGBT Film Festival in Saint Petersburg. The focus of their conversation was the vigorous attempt on the part of the local authorities to close the festival down. Yesterday we received [...]
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July 17, 2009
Petersburg TV: Homosexuality Is An “Abomination”
TV’s ‘Bridge of Freedom’ Describes Gays as ‘Abomination’
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
July 14, 2009
A chief editor at a local television channel called homosexuality an “abomination” in a caustic reply to an open letter written by an insulted viewer. The viewer, St. Petersburg resident Maria Yefremenkova, had earlier held a one-woman protest against what she described [...]
November 17, 2008
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
Public Statement on the Attacks against Social Activists
Recently, criminal attacks against the leaders of trade union and social movements have clearly increased. Among the latest such incidents, we should note the attacks against Carine Clément, a member of the working group and a leader of the Union of [...]
November 15, 2008
Leader of Deceived Land Shareholders Assaulted in Moscow Region
The Leader of the Movement of Deceived Land Shareholders of the Moscow Region Is Assaulted
The violence against social activists is escalating. We have learned that yesterday, November 13, at 6:45 p.m., Sergei Fedotov, the leader of the movement of deceived land shareholders of the Moscow Region, was attacked.
The incident took place in the village of [...]
November 13, 2008
The War on Russian Activists Continues: Mikhail Beketov Beaten Half to Death
Khimki Oppositionist Severely Beaten and Near Death
Prominent Khimki oppositionist and a defender of the Khimki Forest is near death. [Mikhail] Beketov, the editor-in-chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda, and a harsh critic of the local authorities, was found beaten half to death in the courtyard of his home (in the village of Starbeevo, Khimki District) on the [...]
November 13, 2008
The Gathering Darkness: Activist and Sociologist Carine Clément Assaulted in Moscow
Carine Clément, Director of the Institute of Collective Action, Is Attacked in Downtown Moscow
Today (November 13) Carine Clément, [a Moscow-based French sociologist and social activist, and] the director of the Institute of Collective Action, was attacked in downtown Moscow. The incident took place around 11 a.m. near the Bilingua Club, where Clément was to take part in a roundtable on the [...]
November 11, 2008
Knuckledusters as an Instrument of “Social Dialogue”: More on the Attack on Russian Union Leader Alexei Etmanov
Knuckledusters as an Instrument of “Social Dialogue” in Contemporary Russia
Who Is Bothered by Alexei Etmanov?
Reprisals against union leaders have, unfortunately, ceased to be merely a part of the ancient history of the trade union movement. They have more and more often become a reality of labor relations in today’s Russia.
On the night of November 8, [...]
November 11, 2008
Russian Union Leader Alexei Etmanov Attacked and Threatened with Death
The Fight Is Effective When the Fighters Know How to Defend Themselves
On the night of November 8, Alexei Etmanov, the chair of the trade union committee at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk plant, returned home from the second shift. He parked his car in a lot and headed for his house. On Heroes Street three men jumped in [...]
