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Wanneer: 21/06/2016 - 18:14

Toen grote burgerprotesten in Rusland neergeslagen werden in 2011-’12, is de politiestaat van Poetin meteen begonnen met openlijke repressie tegen sociale en politieke activisten, inclusief anarchisten en antifascisten. Veel activisten zijn de laatste vijf jaar veroordeeld tot gevangenisstraffen.

Anarchist Black Cross Moskou roept kameraden in de hele wereld op om solidariteit te tonen met Russische anarchisten en antifascisten, gevangenen van de politiestaat van Poetin, en om zo breed mogelijk informatie te verspreiden over de internationale solidariteitscampagne, bv. door een evenement te organiseren in je eigen stad.

Het zou een info-avond kunnen zijn waar brieven kunnen geschreven worden, een filmavond, een benefiet, een protestactie aan de Russische ambassade, een solidariteitsactie, … Enkel jouw fantasie is jouw grens.

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/1774132002816021/
Vkontakte event: http://vk.com/abc_solidarity_days

Bijgevoegd zijn beschrijvingen van de repressie die enkele Russische anarchisten en anarchisten moesten ondergaan. De beschrijvingen zijn in het Engels, indien iemand meer info wil in het Nederlands, mail dan naar abcgent[at]riseup[dot]net.

Zoals altijd zijn donaties meer dan welkom om onze Russische kameraden te steunen die momenteel in werkkampen of isolatie zitten. Anarchist Black Cross Moskou vraagt iedereen die het kan om solidariteit te tonen, en als het gaat wat geld te doneren op hun bankrekening. Als er vragen zijn hoe je best geld overschrijft kan je dit vragen via avtonom46[at]gmail.com of abc-msk[at]riseup.net. Paypal-account: avtonom46[at]gmail.com of abc-msk[at]riseup.net

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Dmitry Buchenkov

A well-known antifascist and anarchist Dmitry Buchenkov, PhD in political science, was arrested in Moscow in December 2015. He is suspected of participating in the riots of May 6, 2012. More than 400 persons were arrested as a result of a mass protest action against Putin’s politics that took place on May 6, 2012 in Moscow. Dmitry was not in Moscow on that day, he was in Nizhny Novgorod, more than 300 km away from Moscow.

Dmitry is a long-time participant of the antifascist and anarchist movements and he has done a lot for their development. Dmitry’s comrades and friends believe that the arrest is related to his political militancy and his active position regarding the developments taking place in the country.

Dmitry Buchenkov, 36, lecturer of history and political science, PhD in political science, associate professor, worked as Deputy Chairman of the Medicine History and Socio-Humanitarian Science Department in the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I.Pirogov in Moscow. Prior to 2008 he worked as an associate professor of the Philosophy Department in the Volga State Pedagogy University (Nizhny Novgorod) for five years. He was fired for his political activism. Dmitry moved to Moscow after he had had to quit the Volga University.

In Moscow Dmitry joined the local cell of the Autonomous Action, whose member he had already been since 2002. This is how he describes the ideology he shares in a book entitled ‘Anarchists in the late XX century in Russia’ published in 2009: “Basic worldview values of anarchism (self-management, self-organisation, anticapitalism) are still relevant today”. In 2013 Dmitry quit the Autonomous Action organization, but he did not give up his political activism.

He authored several books on history and modern condition of anarchism in Russia. He is an activist of the antifascist and anarchist movements.

Dmitry actively participated in organising efforts and life of the antifascist and anarchist movements in Moscow. He organised many street antifascist protest actions, different cultural events. He took part in the establishment of an antifascist centre called ‘V project’, where antifascists and anarchists held their gigs, meetings, and prepared their actions. Police and FSB more than once threatened to attack Dmitry physically for his political activities and struggles. In 2015 unknown persons, probably police or FSB agents, severely beat Dmitry up, so that he got brain concussion, was all covered in blood and couldn’t even remember how the assault occurred.

Dmitry Buchenkov planned to organise an all-Russian antifascist and anarchist forum “Self-management and Libertarian Communism” in early 2016. But the authoritarian Putinist regime police arrested him.

Dmitry Buchenkov solidarity groups:

www.facebook.com/freebuchenkov/


https://vk.com/freebuchenkov

Address: 125130, Moscow, 20 Vyborgskaya Str., SIZO “Vodnik”, Dmitry E. Buchenkov, (date of birth: August 22, 1978)

Alexei Gaskarov

A well-known antifascist and anarchist. An organiser and participant of many anarchist and left-wing conferences. He was arrested on August 3, 2010 on the Khmiki case after an administrative building in Khimki had been assaulted on July 28 2010. An environmental protest action took place in Khimki against deforestation of big chunks of a reserve forest in order to build a toll road. On October 15, 2010, the court decision on the arrest was recalled. On June 24, 2011, he was legally acquitted by the Khimki municipal court.

He was strongly beaten by police on May 6, 2012, at Bolotnaya square during a political opposition protest, so he filed a petition on riot police power abuses involving violence and riot control weapons.

On April 28, 2013, he was apprehended and the following day arrested on accusation of leading a group of persons who actively participated in mass riots that supposedly took place at Bolotnaya square and of violence against a policeman. Later the accusation included two policemen supposedly attacked by Gaskarov: according to investigation data, Gaskarov grabbed a shoulder of an interior troops soldier and then he grabbed a leg of Igor Ibatulin, a riot police officer. The final version of the charge is also saying that he participated in mass riots at Bolotnaya square. On August 18, 2014, the court sentenced Gaskarov to three and a half years in a general regime penal colony.

Many political activists relate Gaskarov’s imprisonment to a direct revenge from political police called the Centre for Combating Extremism for his long-time political activism. Gaskarov support website: gaskarov.info

Addresses for letters: Gaskarov — 301654, Russia, Tula Oblast, Novomoskovsk, 27 Centralnaya Str., IK-6 UFSIN, detachment 5, Alexei V. Gaskarov, (Date of birth: June 18, 1985)

Alexei Sutuga

A well-known antifascist and anarchist from Autonomous Action. Charged with hooliganism for supposedly beating up nationalists in a brawl. Sentenced to three years and one month of colony.

Sutuga was apprehended in April 2014 in Moscow by political police from the Centre for Combating Extremism after an antifa gig. During interrogation he was asked about his trip to Maidan (Ukrainian protests in Kyiv in 2014). Alexei was accused of participation in a brawl on January 2, 2014, in ‘Sbarro’ bar, where he kicked and beat several persons with a chair and a selfmade hammer.

Sutuga himself said he tried to stop other people fighting — the brawl was between Neo-Nazis and some other youths. On October 1 Sutuga was sentenced to three years and one month of colony. On December 17 the appeal court left the sentence unchanged.

On March 17, 2015, while in Irkutsk remand prison, from where he had to be transferred to a colony, Sutuga went on a dry hunger strike because he had been pressurised in the remand prison: he was offered to stay there instead of the colony, and when Sutuga had refused, they got hold of his letters and books. When the news on his hunger strike leaked outside the remand prison, he was transferred to the colony. The he stopped his hunger strike. In the colony Sutuga was subjected to a solitary confinement cell. He is constantly pressurised by the prison administration.

Address for letters: 665809 Irkutsk Oblast, Angarsk, First Industrial Cluster, quarter 47, building 6, IK No.2, Alexei V. Sutuga, born in 1986 (you can send him only 1st class registered mail) or you can write via Rosuznik website

>Ilya Romanov

On August 6, 2015, a visiting board of the Moscow district military court passed a sentence upon Ilya Romanov, anarchist from Nizhny Novgorod – 10 years of high-security prison. The court ignored all arguments brought forward by defence. Afterwards the term was changed to 9 years of high-security prison.

Romanov was injured by a self-made firecracker’s explosion in October 2013, but they re-qualified him from an unfortunate experimenter to a “terrorist”. Apart from that firecracker an “interview” that he had given in December 2012 in a suburb of Donetsk was used in his case. Both “crimes” were incomplete: Ilya Romanov is accused of trying to menace local population and authorities of Nizhny Novgorod in order to save Kulibinsky park from tree-felling, but he didn’t manage because the device exploded during a test. He also supposedly tried to propagate terrorism through Ukrainian media, namely Radio RKAS – Libertaire, but he didn’t manage to accomplish it either. It appears that it is not a radio station, rather an internet blog. The interview itself is just a Dictaphone record made at a party following his release from prison.

Romanov, whose family consists of retired parents and a teenage daughter is the poorest of all inmates. His family hardly manages to bring him parcels now and then, while Romanov also has to pay for a lawyer working on two supervisory complaints.

431130, Republic of Mordovia, Zubovo-Polyansky region, Lepley, FKU IK-22, Ilya E. Romanov. (Birthday: July 3, 1967)

Alexander Kolchenko

On August 25, 2015, the military court in Rostov-upon-Don passed a cruel sentence against Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and Crimean antifascist Alexander Kolchenko. The investigation authorities called them “terrorists” — allegedly Sentzov guided by the Right Sector from Kyiv (banned in Russia) founded a “terrorist group” in Simpheropol that sought to bring Crimea back to Ukraine.

Kolchenko supposedly made part of the group. The “terrorists” set fire on the office doors of Crimean Russian Community and a window in the local office of the United Russia (the ruling party in Russia). During the court, Gennady Afanasiyev — one of key witnesses upon whose words the accusation was built — said that his testimony was either given under torture or simply invented. Afanasyev got 7 years in prison on the “Crimean terrorists” case. Oleg Sentzov was sentenced to 20 years and Alexander Kolchenko to 10 years in prison for burning a door and a window.

Address for letters: 456612, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kopeisk, 20 Kemerovskaya Str., IK-6, detachment 4, Alexander A. Kolchenko, born in 1989.