Honoring the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova has very quickly become a matter of low-scale partisan warfare in Russia. The police have been quick to interfere with or altogether stamp out spontaneous (i.e., “unsanctioned”) collective expressions of grief and outrage. First, there was the antifa/anarchist march [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Anastasia Baburova’
February 4, 2009
Reporters Without Borders: Markelov/Baburova Murder May Be Linked to Attack on Beketov
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) goes to Russia to attend the Markelov funeral and gather facts surrounding the murders of Markelov and Anastasia Baburova:
Fact-finding visit : Moscow double murder may have been linked to November attack on local newspaper editor
We should add one slight correction to RSF’s fact-finding report. Yevgenia Chirikova, a comrade of Mikhail [...]
February 2, 2009
The Letter
In the next day or so, we will have a report on yesterday’s actions (in Moscow, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere) in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. In the meantime, if you are wondering what you can do, you might take this piece of good advice from Will, writing at the aptly (?) named [...]
January 31, 2009
Our Silence = Complicity (Moscow & Elsewhere, February 1)
Here is a translation of the leaflet that will be handed out on Sunday, February 1, at the rally against political terror in Moscow at Chistye Prudy. The original text (in Russian) can be found here and here. Feel free to use and adapt this text for your own protest memorials in other parts of [...]
January 30, 2009
February 1: Stop the Terror!
February 1
Stop the Terror! An International Campaign of Solidarity with Russian Social Activists
On February 1, in Moscow (3:00 p.m.), Paris (3:00 p.m.), Rome (5:00 pm), and other Russian and European cities, protest demonstrations will be held in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, and in solidarity with all those bold, active people who [...]
January 28, 2009
Despite Everything
We got this reflection on reactions to the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova from Comrade A., a student, writer, and activist in Petersburg.
I usually don’t swear, and I don’t know what to think when I come across an abundance of such words—or even more ambivalently, one such word—in a text. But now I [...]
January 27, 2009
Shattered Windows
Yesterday (January 26, 2009), Novaya Gazeta published a short compendium of joyous LiveJournal reactions to news of the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova on the part of Russia fascists and neo-Nazis. We simply don’t have the heart to reproduce even the slightest bit of that hate-fest on these pages. If you want to [...]
January 24, 2009
These Shards Are Our Tears
Chtodelat News doesn’t endorse vandalism. However, it is remarkable how much attention has been paid to the fact that, during the antifa march in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in Moscow this past Tuesday, some of the marchers smashed a few shop windows along their route and some lampshades on the escalator as [...]
January 23, 2009
Stanislav Markelov: Two Worlds, Two Deaths
It is a bitter irony that the last article Stanislav Markelov published on the website of the Rule of Law Institute (which he founded and headed) was a reflection on the official, media, and public reactions to two recent deaths in two different countries—the death of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II (December 5, 2008) and [...]
January 22, 2009
In Memoriam: Stanislav Markelov & Anastasia Baburova (Petersburg)
On Tuesday, January 21, the day after the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova in Moscow, Petersburgers gathered at the Bukvoyed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospect, the place where Timur Kacharava was murdered in 2005, and marched to the Field of Mars.
Photos by Sergey Chernov. More photos from the memorial can be found here.
