Anarchist Alexey Sutuga has been arrested and remanded in Moscow — your help is needed!

Alexey Sutuga, anarchist, anti-fascist and member of Autonomous Action, was arrested on Tuesday evening, April 17, in Moscow. The arrest took place during a fundraising effort in support of anti-fascist prisoners. It was learned almost after a day after the arrest that Alexey is now in Remand Prison No. 2, also known as Butyrka Prison.

The police accuse him of the same crime as anti-fascist Alexey Olesinov, who has already been in custody for a month — complicity in the incident at the Moscow club Vozdukh, on December 17, 2011, when neo-Nazis working security attacked concert goers and then blamed anti-fascists for this assault.

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13th of February, a known Moscow anti-fascist Alexey Olesinov was arrested in St. Petersburg with charges of “hooliganism”, related to incident in Moscow club “Vozdukh” 17th of December.

The following statement (http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/25991/index.php) on the event was published by anonymous participant of the anti-fascist initiative “Direct help” already 19th of December, but considering arrest of Olesinov, we consider necessary to pick up the topic again.

Alexey had not anything to do with this fight, but it is now used as a pretext to imprison him. It is obvious, that “Anti-extremist center” and FSB are now revenging the fact, that they could not jail him for a longer time back in 2009, when he was framed up last time. It is obvious, that real reason why officials are after him, are the anti-fascist activities of Olesinov during last decade.

Old version of our website is currently unavailable, but some background information on the court case of 2009 is available here: http://libcom.org/news/moscow-anti-fascist-jailed-his-beliefs-25042009. Fresh news on topic will be available with tag

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¡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.

The next act of Russian history is about to begin: Putin and Medvedev will pop off-stage into the Moscow green room, switch costumes, and re-emerge to play each other’s roles. Putin as president, again, Medvedev as PM. It’s the apotheosis of what has become known as ‘managed democracy’, and the ultimate triumph of the show’s writer-director, Putin’s chief ideologue and grey cardinal, Vladislav Surkov, the ‘Kremlin demiurge’. Known also as the ‘puppetmaster who privatised the Russian political system’, Surkov is the real genius of the Putin era. Understand him and you understand not only contemporary Russia but a new type of power politics, a breed of authoritarianism far subtler than the 20th-century strains.Read more...

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...