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Anti-war Protests In Russia (2022–present)
{{Infobox civil conflict , title = Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present) , partof = the protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russo-Ukrainian War, and Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, Russian opposition protest rallies , image = , caption = Picketing, Picketers at the 1905 Square (Yekaterinburg), 1905 Square in Yekaterinburg, February 2022 , date = {{start date, df=yes, 2022, 02, 24 – ''present'' ({{age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=2, day1=24, year1=2022) , place = Russia , causes = {{ubl, Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022 Russian mobilization , goals = {{ubl, Withdrawal of troops from Ukraine, End of the mobilization, Resignation of Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Mishustin , methods = {{ubl, Political demonstration, Demonstrations, Internet activism, Picketing, Vandalism, Civil disobedience, Protest marches , status = Ongoing * Protests largely subsided * Severe government crackdown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protests Against The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred simultaneously in many places worldwide, including 2022 anti-war protests in Russia, in Russia and 2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine, in Russian-occupied Ukraine. In Russia In the seven days from 24 February to 2 March, over 6,500 people in 53 cities across Russia have been detained by police for protesting against the invasion. Since the start of the war until 6 March nearly 13,000 have been detained. On 24 February, over 60 Russian activists and journalists have been arrested. In violation of the Freedom of assembly in Russia, Russian Constitution and international human rights law, Putin has made freedom of assembly, peaceful public protest without permission of the authorities illegal. This background information is necessary to understand the extreme intimidation caused by the large number of arrests and by the seemingly reasonable warning of the authorities to not take part in "unsanctioned" prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Partisan Movement (2020–present)
The Belarusian partisan movement, sometimes called the Belarusian Civil War, is an ongoing campaign of resistance against the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. It began in response to the violent suppression of the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. The partisans aim to depose Lukashenko's government and expel Russian troops from Belarus. History 2020 Lukashenko was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election on 9 August 2020, intensifying the ongoing protests against his regime. In response the Coordination Council led by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was formed on 14 August. Several key opposition groups aligned with the Coordination Council were formed in the autumn of 2020, such as the Cyber Partisans, Busly liaciać, and BYPOL. 2021 In January, a Belarusian was arrested after an arson attack against a T-72 tank at in Minsk. The Cyber Partisans conducted a campaign of cyberattacks on the regime's internet infrastructure in mid-2021, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libertarianism
Libertarianism (from ; or from ) is a political philosophy that holds freedom, personal sovereignty, and liberty as primary values. Many libertarians believe that the concept of freedom is in accord with the Non-Aggression Principle, according to which each individual has the right to live as they choose, as long as they do not violate the rights of others by initiating force or fraud against them. Libertarians advocate the expansion of individual autonomy and political self-determination, emphasizing the principles of equality before the law and the protection of civil rights, including the rights to freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of choice. They generally support individual liberty and oppose Political authority, authority, State (polity), state power, warfare, militarism and nationalism, but some libertarians diverge on the scope and nature of their opposition to existing Economic system, economic and political systems. Schools of li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Headquartered in Prague since 1995, RFE/RL operates 21 local bureaus with over 500 core staff, 1,300 freelancers, and 680 employees. Nicola Careem serves as the editor-in-chief. Founded during the Cold War, RFE began in 1949 targeting Soviet empire, Soviet satellite states, while RL, established in 1951, focused on the Soviet Union. Initially funded covertly by the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA until 1972, the two merged in 1976. RFE/RL was headquartered in Munich from 1949 to 1995, with additional broadcasts from Portugal's Glória do Ribatejo until 1996. Soviet authorities jammed their signals, and Second World, communist regimes often infiltrated their operations. Today, RFE/RL is a private 501(c)(3) corporation supervised by the United States Agency for Global Media, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of The Dead
The Party of the Dead () is a Russian art activist project created in 2017 by members of the art group and artist Maxim Evstropov. Background Several similar art projects can be noted in the post-Soviet space, bearing a similar name and having common elements of an artistic concept. Namely, the “Party of the Dead of Latvia”, the “Party of the Dead” of Eduard Limonov and National Bolshevik Party and the “Party of the Dead” of the Moscow artist Lena Hades. So, in one of the interviews, the artist Maxim Evstropov noted that the idea of his “Party of the Dead” is partly “also a parody of the Nazbols”. "Party of the Dead of Latvia" It was founded by Riga art activists from the association "Red Orchestra" in 1998. Due to the closeness of the activists to the National Bolshevik Party, the "Party of the Dead of Latvia" is sometimes erroneously called an NBP art project. Theodor Nette was called "the locomotive of the Party of the Dead", and one of the tasks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libcom
Libcom.org is an online platform featuring a variety of libertarian communist essays, blog posts, and archives, primarily in English. It was founded in 2005 by editors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Libcom.org also has a forum and social media features including the ability to comment on post and upload original articles. In contrast with traditional archives, anarchistic archival practices embrace "use as preservation", making use of digital technology to host niche political material in online repositories like Libcom.org. The site was launched in 2003 originally as enrager.net, named for the ''enragés The Enragés (; ), commonly known as the Ultra-radicals (), were a small number of firebrands known for defending the lower class and expressing the demands of the radical ''sans-culottes'' during the French Revolution.Jeremy D. Popkin (2015). ' ...'' of the French Revolution, but changed its name in 2005 to the present name libcom.org, short for libertarian comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchist Black Cross
The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), formerly the Anarchist Red Cross, is an anarchist support organization. The group is notable for its efforts at providing prisoners with political literature, but it also organizes material and legal support for class struggle prisoners worldwide. It commonly contrasts itself with Amnesty International, which is concerned mainly with prisoners of conscience and refuses to defend those accused of encouraging violence. The ABC openly supports those who have committed illegal activity in furtherance of revolutionary aims that anarchists accept as legitimate. History The Anarchist Black Cross offers aid to political prisoners. In the early 20th century Russian Empire, dissidents including anarchists and socialists were jailed, exiled, or killed for their resistance to monarchy. Different political groups and organizations got together under the Political Red Cross umbrella to provide material support for those repressed. The Political Red Cross sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Going Down (website)
''It's Going Down'' (IGD) is a media collective publishing news, analysis, and commentary from an anarchist perspective. The collective covers autonomous anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-fascist movements across North America. It is known for producing investigative work on far-right, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi networks, as well as reports on contemporary social struggles and movements. Content The website launched in 2015 and publishes content on their website, along with a podcast and radio show. The website experienced a major spike in readership following Donald Trump's presidential election in 2016. History In September 2017, Peter Beinart quoted ''It's Going Down'' as stating that " ddenly, anarchists and antifa, who have been demonized and sidelined by the wider Left have been hearing from liberals and Leftists, 'you've been right all along.'" Two women charged and convicted for terrorist attacks and violence against railroad workers published on ''It's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchism In Russia
Anarchism in Russia developed out of the Narodniks, populist and Russian nihilist movement, nihilist movements' dissatisfaction with the Government reforms of Alexander II of Russia, government reforms of the time. The first Russian to identify himself as an anarchist was the revolutionary socialism, revolutionary socialist Mikhail Bakunin, who became a founding figure of the modern anarchist movement within the International Workingmen's Association (IWA). In the context of the Hague Congress (1872), split within the IWA between the Marxism, Marxists and the anarchists, the Russian Land and Liberty (Russia), Land and Liberty organization also split between a Black Repartition, Marxist faction that supported political struggle and an Narodnaya Volya, anarchist faction that supported "propaganda of the deed", the latter of which went on to orchestrate the Assassination of Alexander II of Russia, assassination of Alexander II of Russia, Alexander II. Specifically anarchist groups s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Insider (website)
''The Insider'' is an online publication specializing in investigative journalism, fact-checking, and exposing fake news. It was founded by independent Russian journalist Roman Dobrokhotov. The publication operates websites in both Russian and English, along with a Telegram channel, an Instagram account, two TikTok accounts, and two YouTube channels: one for on-air programs and another for edited video content. ''The Insider'' is published in both Russian and English. Roman Dobrokhotov, Christo Grozev, Sergei Kanev, Sergei Ezhov, Andrey Zayakin, and Dada Lyndell worked for The Insider. History Founded in November 2013 by Roman Dobrokhotov, a member of the Solidarnost movement and a liberal-democratic journalist and political activist, ''The Insider’s'' editorial office is based in Riga, Latvia. Among its most notable successes, ''The Insider'' identified the FSB officers responsible for poisoning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza, writer D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna (Russia)
The Youth Democratic Movement "Vesna" () is a Russian liberal democratic youth movement based in Saint Petersburg. The movement has full membership in the International Federation of Liberal Youth and European Liberal Youth. History Foundation The movement originated in early 2013, when a number of members of the Saint Petersburg branch of the Youth Yabloko, after they were expelled from the party, with the support of deputy Maxim Reznik, formed a new democratic movement, uniting with other youth liberal forces - the regional youth branch of the Solidarnost movement and the youth movement " Oborona". As was approved at the founding meeting, the movement will not officially have a single leader - instead, the governing and program functions will be carried out by the Federal Coordinating Council, consisting of five people. Immediately after the creation of the movement, the movement received criticism from Yabloko representatives for the "linguistic deafness of the org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberalism In Russia
Within Russian political parties, liberal parties advocate the expansion of political and civil freedoms and mostly oppose Vladimir Putin. In Russia, the term " liberal" can refer to wide range of politicians, from the centre-right and proponents of shock therapy to left-liberals and progressives. The term "liberal democrats" is often used for members of the far-right nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. There are Russian opposition and pro-government liberal political parties in Russia. Pro-government liberal politicians support Putin's policy in economics. There are no liberal factions in Russian parliament at the moment. Centre-left liberalism was represented in the State Duma of Russian parliament by the Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" (7.86% in 1993 election, 6.89% in 1995, 5.93% in 1999). Pro-government liberalism was represented by the Our Home – Russia (10.13% in 1995 election), the liberal political party founded by Prime Minister Viktor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
