On October 17, we reported, via a translation of a quite emotional post on the Live Journal of the Moscow anarchist and journalist Vlad Tupikin, on the brutal murder of a young woman in Irkutsk. It was alleged that the woman, identified as “Olga Rukosyla,” had been kicked to death by skinheads who had identified [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘neo-Nazism’
October 17, 2008
Somebody Got Murdered: The Death of Olga Rukosyla
Olga Rukosyla was murdered by neo-Nazis on the evening of October 8, 2008, in Irkutsk
I first saw this face, these eyes (on this photograph) twenty minutes ago. Since then, I haven’t been able to stop shaking, although I knew beforehand that I would be seeing the image of a dead human being, a girl who [...]
July 27, 2008
Shadowboxing (Petersburg Antifa)
Anna Rudnitskaya
Shadowboxing
Russian Reporter 25 (55) 3 July 2008
It is hard to believe that the war against fascism is once again being fought on the streets of Russia’s cities. This war is waged by young people who for some reason don’t like the sound of the slogan, “Beat the blacks [i.e., people from the Caucasus region [...]
February 25, 2008
BASTA! Special Issue: RASH, “We Have to Take People to the Next Level”
This is the fifth in a series of translations of the articles in BASTA!, a special Russian-only issue of Chto Delat that addresses such pressing issues as the fight against racism and facism, the new Russian labor movement, the resistance to runaway “development” in Petersburg, the prospects for student self-governance and revolt, the potential [...]
February 24, 2008
BASTA! Special Issue: Foma, “Who Makes the Nazis?”
This is the second in a series of translations of the articles in BASTA!, a special Russian-only issue of Chto Delat that addresses such pressing issues as the fight against racism and facism, the new Russian labor movement, the resistance to runaway “development” in Petersburg, the prospects for student self-governance and revolt, the potential for [...]
