Penza: A New Reichstag Fire?

Penza Remembers the Burning of the Reichstag

Dmitry Volchek
Penza civil rights advocates and politicians are disturbed by how an arson at the local office of the United Russia party is being investigated: nearly two hundred members of opposition organizations have been subjected to pressure tactics by the FSB and police.
The building where the United Russian party [...]

Izhevsk: Autonomous Action Appeals for Help to Stop Police Persecution

http://izhevsk.avtonom.org/2009/11/09/stop-repression-against-izhevsk-avtonomists/

No to police persecution of activists from the Autonomous Action movement in Izhevsk!
In Izhevsk, law enforcement officials – specifically, officers from the Republic of Udmurtia Interior Ministry’s Center for Extremism Prevention (formerly, the Organized Crime Prevention Squad) [or Center “E”] – have fabricated a case against members of the Autonomous Action movement. According [...]

Russia Today

A few news items from the past few days that you probably won’t see on the Kremlin’s English-language propaganda channel Russia Today, which has begun affectionately calling itself “RT.”
Raid on Left Front Headquarters in Moscow
On the morning of October 31, police raided the Moscow headquarters of the Left Front. The police allegedly didn’t present a [...]

2+2/Practicing Godard (The Story of the “Communal Life” Seminar)

2+2/Practicing Godard (Part I)
I was inspired to make this film after the police forced me to delete video footage of the OMON raid on our seminar in Nizhny Novgorod. I was struck by their brazen confidence that they could erase things from people’s memory as easily as you can delete a video image.
This film [...]

Center “E”: A New Face in (Their) Hell

Anti-Extremist Police Raid Activist’s Apartment
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
June 16, 2009
The apartment of a political and human rights activist was searched by the police on farfetched grounds last week, the activist said at a press conference held on Thursday at the office of Soldiers’ Mothers, a group that defends the rights of Russian soldiers and [...]