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Aleksandr Skobov latest Russian "defeatist" condemned for "terrorism”

Aleksandr Skobov

17/01/2025
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
The story of a former prisoner of the Kirov’s colony, in which Azat Miftakhov was held: what kind of provocations the prison guards were staging against the anarchist and how the case was fabricated against him

Editorial staff- AVTONOM

07/01/2025
avtonom.org
Russian Women Political Prisoners. A System of Violence

Fikus

23/10/2024
posle.media
"Desertion is a political act." Should Russians escaping the army be seen as victims of the war in Ukraine?

Amalia Zatari.

16/10/2024
bbcrussian.substack.com
Anti-War Protests and Resistance in Russia

Ivan Astashin

02/10/2024
posle.media
The War and Loyalist Protest

Alexander Finiarel’

27/03/2024
posle.media
Russian socialist Mikhail Lobanov: ‘We are sure that at this “election”, millions will cast a protest vote’

Mikhail Lobanov Federico Fuentes

15/03/2024
links.org.au
Russian General Consul Vladimir Sosnov is personally insisting on the deportation of the rock band "Bi-2" from Phuket, Thailand, in coordination with Moscow.

Sota News

27/01/2024
twitter.com
‘I no longer have a country’: Antiwar Russians who fled unlikely to return

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska

22/01/2024
www.aljazeera.com
Thousands rally against repression of Russian peace activists

Anton Gerashchenko

17/01/2024
twitter.com
Europe: Halt returns of people from the North Caucasus to Russia where they are at risk of torture and abuse

Amnesty International

17/01/2024
www.amnesty.org
‘My prisons and the future of Russia’

Yurii Colombo, Boris Kagarlitsky

05/01/2024
naufraghi.ch
Russian poet sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-war verse

Novaya Gazeta Europe

28/12/2023
novayagazeta.eu
Protests by Soldiers’ Wives in Russia Show How an Antiwar Movement Can Grow There

Kirill Medvedev

19/12/2023
jacobin.com
Russians who fled to Serbia to escape the war against Ukraine now find themselves persecuted by local police and hunted by Moscow’s intelligence community

Story by Lilia Yapparova, Adapted for Meduza in English by Kevin Rothrock

18/12/2023
meduza.io
Petition against mobilization by the “Way Home” Movement

FAS Channel

27/11/2023
Help Aikhal Ammosov

Russian Socialist Movement

23/11/2023
www.facebook.com
‘I’m back to being afraid’: Three years after mass protests rocked Belarus, exiled Belarusians still fear Lukashenko’s long arm

Serge Faldin

20/10/2023
meduza.io
Naturalized and mobilized

Sher Khashimov

22/09/2023
meduza.io
Russia: Free Buryatia Foundation declared ‘undesirable’

RIA Novosti

01/09/2023
meduza.io
Lithuania denies asylum to Belarusian human rights defender, Weimar Prize honoree Olga Karach. Authorities argue threat to state security.

Meduza

18/08/2023
meduza.io
Ukraine could exchange Russian POWs for political prisoners

The New Voice of Ukraine

18/08/2023
english.nv.ua
‘Ruzzki not welcome’: the Russian exiles getting a hostile reception in Georgia

Joshua Kucera

08/08/2023
www.theguardian.com
Desertion and political protest

Konstantin Pakhalyuk

22/07/2023
posle.media
A Russian lawyer stood up for Ukrainians. She was labelled a ‘foreign agent’

Lucy Martirosyan

27/02/2023
www.opendemocracy.net
Russia: ‘I sacrificed myself to the regime, but I am not a terrorist’

Solidarity Zone

31/01/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
Russia: Where the “Motherland” Calls: From Gender Mythology to Political Action

Asya Neverova

26/01/2023
posle.media
It is always darkest before the dawn: how Russian anarchists today struggle for revolution

Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAK)

25/01/2023
lefteast.org
Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia

Ashley Smith Ivan Ovsyannikov

22/01/2023
www.tempestmag.org
Russian Socialist Movement: War and resistance under Putin

Kirill Medvedev Federico Fuentes

20/01/2023
www.greenleft.org.au
Russia: the time for protest has gone, it’s time for resistance

Armen Aramyan

17/01/2023
peopleandnature.wordpress.com
Russia: What Mobilization Has Done to the Sverdlovsk Region

Alexei Rozhkov

16/01/2023
therussianreader.com
Russia: Return drafted refuseniks from illegal prisons!

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

09/01/2023
At the root of Russian resistance

Sasha Talaver

04/01/2023
www.ips-journal.eu
Letter from an American to Russian Soldiers as Christmas Approaches

Dan La Botz

23/12/2022
newpol.org
Russia: “Don’t keep your passport at home”

Posle Dima Starover

11/12/2022
posle.media
Mutinies in the Russian army

Collective

09/11/2022
antimilitarismus.noblogs.org
Is the European Union applying a practical visa policy on Russia? Interview with activist Almut Rochowanski

Almut Rochowanski Daria Dergacheva

04/11/2022
globalvoices.org
Russia: Conscription is violence and slavery

Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

01/11/2022
Roles flip as Russians become ‘migrant workers’ in Tajikistan (for now)

Karolina Kluczewska

25/10/2022
www.opendemocracy.net
Russia after the call-up: interview with Grigoriy Yudin (Doxa)

Grigoriy Yudin

24/10/2022
Russia: Decision

Konstantin Kharitonov

23/10/2022
posle.media
New Russian Exodus: Russians Protest With Their Feet Against Putin’s War in Ukraine

Lisa J Walters Svetlana Ruseishvili Oswaldo Truzzi

21/10/2022
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
Mobilisation in Russia: a perspective from the Left

LeftEast “Nevoina” (“No(to)war”)

20/10/2022
lefteast.org
Russian feminists help men avoid draft

Irina Chevtayeva

20/10/2022
www.dw.com
Russia: ‘This is not our war’: Bashkir nationalists create armed resistance

Vertska

18/10/2022
Two Voices from Russia & Ukraine on Putin, Resistance Inside Russia & Their Views on Anti-Imperialism

Amy Goodman Hanna Perekhoda Nermeen Shaikh Arshak Makichyan

13/10/2022
www.democracynow.org
‘It's easier to get a visa than to die’. Human rights activist on why migrants should flee Russia now

FAS

09/10/2022
About 700,000 people have left Russia in two weeks of mobilisation

Ukrainska Pravda

04/10/2022
www.pravda.com.ua
Resistance inside Putin’s Russia: an interview with Ilya Budraitskis

Eleanor Morley Ilya Budraitskis

04/10/2022
redflag.org.au
Russia: The spine of the Caucasus

Fariza Dudarova

29/09/2022
novayagazeta.eu
‘I won’t go and kill my brothers!’: Russians set fire to draft centres

Olya Romashova

29/09/2022
www.opendemocracy.net
OPINION: Sweden should welcome Russians who don’t want to kill Ukrainians

David Crouch

29/09/2022
www.thelocal.se
Russia: List of national anti-war initiatives

FAS

29/09/2022
Russian Socialist Movement: How is the draft in one of the most opposition regions of the country going?

Alexander Sleptsov

28/09/2022
Yakutia: Help those arrested!

Free Yakutia Foundation

28/09/2022
Russia: An uprising of women, workers and peoples

Kirill Medvedev

28/09/2022
novayagazeta.eu
Partial Mobilization: Six Stories. Part 1

Posle

28/09/2022
posle.media
Russia: Putin’s call-up stirs protests, endangers patriotic consensus

Dick Nichols

27/09/2022
www.greenleft.org.au
Russia: Breakdown border

Лукпан Ахмедьяров

27/09/2022
novayagazeta.eu
Draft beer not Buryats

Antonina Asanova Andrey Kaganskikh Daria Talanova

25/09/2022
novayagazeta.eu
'The only good thing is that they won't grab me off the street' How Russia's mobilization affects women and transgender people

Feminist Anti-War Resistance

24/09/2022
meduza.io
Anti-War Initiatives Led by Indigenous Peoples in Russia are Inherently Anti-Colonialist

Anonymous

23/09/2022
www.culturalsurvival.org
Russia: Editorial (Posle) Not a single soldier for Putin's criminal war!

Posle

22/09/2022
posle.media
Full coverage by Feminist Anti-War Resistance of yesterday's Russian protest against 'partial mobilisation’

Green Left and Links European Bureau

22/09/2022
Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders

Matthew Luxmoore

01/06/2022
www.wsj.com