¡Amigas, Amigos, Compañeros, Compañeras!

Nosotras, las antifascistas y anarquistas de Nizhny Novgorod (Rusia), llamamos a todas las personas conscientes en el mundo. La policía política (el centro para el Combate del Extremismo, o centro "E") ha fabricado un caso criminal contra nuestros compañeros. El antifascismo ha sido ilegalizado en nuestra ciudad. ¡Necesitamos vuestro apoyo y solidaridad!

¿Cuáles son los cargos contra nuestros amigos y compañeras?

5 jóvenes, amigas nuestras, han sido acusadas de organizar una "comunidad extremista" bajo el exótico nombre de "Antifa-RASH." De acuerdo con nuestra analfabeta policía, este extraño acrónimo corresponde (en inglés) con "Red Anarchia Skinheads" [sic] y puede traducirse de su inglés macarrónico al castellano como "Anarquía roja de cabezas rapadas" (una combinación de todos los miedos de los obedientes ciudadanos). Artyom Bystrov, Albert Gainutdinov, Pavel Krivonosov, Dmitry Kolesov y Oleg Gambaruk son acusados de formar esta organización para asaltar a personas con ideas ultraderechistas y para incitar odio contra ellas y contra personas adineradas.Read more...

Friends and comrades!

We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), appeal to concerned people around the world. The political police (the Center for Combating Extremism or Center “E”) have fabricated a criminal case against our comrades. Anti-fascism has been outlawed in our city. We need your solidarity and support!

What are the charges against our friends and comrades?

Five young men, our friends, have been charged with organizing an “extremist community” under the exotic name of “Antifa-RASH.” According to our illiterate police, this strange acronym stands (in English) for “Red anarhia skinheads” [sic] and should be translated from their broken English slang into Russian as “red anarchy of skinheads” (a combination of all the fears of ordinary law-abiding citizens.) Artyom Bystrov, Albert Gainutdinov, Pavel Krivonosov, Dmitry Kolesov and Oleg Gambaruk are alleged to have formed this organization in order to carry out assaults on people espousing ultra-rightwing views and to incite hatred against them and against wealthy people.Read more...

Artem Bystrov is an anti-fascist who is being persecute by the russian police department which goal is neutralization of any kind of political activity.

By Sergey Chernov

The St. Petersburg Times

January 18, 2012

The city authorities have refused to authorize an annual anti-fascist march and rally in memory of the slain anti-fascists Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova due to be held on Thursday, Jan. 19, allowing only a “picket” on the largely deserted Ploshchad Sakharova on Vasilyevsky Island.

Human rights lawyer Markelov and journalist Baburova were shot dead in downtown Moscow on Jan. 19, 2009, and the date has been marked with vigils and rallies across Russia since then. Other anti-fascists, such as Nikolai Girenko, Timur Kacharava, Ivan Khutorskoi and Alexander Ryukhin, who were also killed by neo-Nazis, are commemorated as well.Read more...

Greetings, comrades! It's a great honor for me to speak in front of you today. I understand that weather is not very nice outside today so i won't give a long speech. I just want to point out a few short abstracts. Demands of fair elections is a first step but very important one. We don't need to build a system that is about voting for some candidates every 4 years. We need to try to put in practice social movements slogans that we heard through russia for last 5 years. This slogan is a very simple one: Put Authority under civilian control I think right now we have everything needed to make this slogan a reality. Everyone who came here today, to this protest, could affect every decision being made. We need to build a democratic system, and try not to degrade to 90s, not get back to the type of system western europe have right now, system that is in crisis right now, where hundreds of thousands people are going out on the streets/squares to demand a real democracy. Read more...