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 [...]
“Any attempts to rock the situation with democratic slogans, to destabilize the state and split society, will be stopped.”
— Dmitry Medvedev, Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, Moscow, November 12, 2009
Beria’s Heirs Have Become Active
This morning (November 12) Alexander Lashmankin, founder and correspondent of the Samara Civil Rights Information Agency Svoboda, was stopped by FSB [...]
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 [...]
Omsk Students Face Expulsion for Activism
November 10th, 2009
A campaign has been launched to expel students participating in political activism from Omsk State University, according to a report by Newsru.com. Administrators at the university have drawn up a list of twelve “extremists” and have designated class time to discuss counter measures against them. The report further [...]
We are publishing the following translation of an article that recently appeared on the website of the Institute for Collection Action and was distributed to various activist listservs. We are doing so only out of solidarity with our comrades in Omsk. Although we believe what they tell us, we are aware that the lack of [...]
Journalists Protest Following Arrests on Nevsky for Use of Foul Language
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
June 23, 2009
On Thursday, two journalists who were detained by the police in the city center last week and charged with using obscene language in public wrote to the City Prosecutor asking for action to be taken against both arresting officers [...]
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 [...]
As the Institute for Collective Action reports, yesterday, June 10, the Novosibirsk Regional Court ordered Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov released on his own recognizance. A panel of judges ruled that there was no basis for the Dzerzhinsky District Court’s conclusion that Loskutov would continue to engage in criminal activity were he released pending trial. The lower [...]
Protests, Hunger Strike Over Artist’s Arrest Are Stepped Up
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
June 9, 2009
Human rights activists and opposition politicians have published an open letter in defense of Artyom Loskutov, the 23-year-old artist and activist arrested in Novosibirsk last month, while the hunger strike led by local artists at City Hall entered its 12th day [...]
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