Written by the support group On August 21, our dear Roma will turn 29. This will be the fourth birthday that our comrade will spend in detention. Roma is an anarchist and antifascist from Surgut of Siberia. Together with Nikita Oleynik, another defendant in the “Tyumen case,” he created the libertarian library Burevestnik (Storm petrel), which housed books on anarchist theory and philosophy. To make it easier for you to start a conversation with Roma, you may mention some of his interests: you can write to him about animals, cars, books, history, philosophy, yoga, or Buddhism.

From Telegram channel of Support Group of Kansk Teenagers: Wish Nikita a Happy Birthday! On August 17, Nikita Uvarov will turn 21. It’s hard to believe, because when we began the campaign in support of Nikita and the other defendants in the “Kansk teenagers case”, he was 15 years old — and he was only 14 when he was detained. In 2022, a court sentenced Nikita to five years in prison, and he was supposed to be released at the age of 20. But Nikita is now turning 21, and he is still behind bars. How did this happen?

Repression targets Chita anarchists already jailed for war resistance and anti-regime graffiti The regional prosecutor’s office for the Trans-Baikal region in eastern Siberia has submitted a petition to a local court to recognize the “Trans-Baikal Left Association” as a terrorist organisation. The petition refers to the telegram channel 75zlo, allegedly maintained by jailed anarchists Aleksandr Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova, which the petition asks to declare as “leaders” of this association. The court hearing is scheduled for January 13. Currently the channel has 72 subscribers, and no posts have been published there since the anarchists were detained.

Two years of anti-government protests raise questions about organising around collective struggles This article, edited and published by Freedom, has been adapted from a lecture given at anarchist days, Dresden, 21st September 2024. It has been updated with recent developments. The lecture is available on YouTube and Spotify. The current government of Finland has been called the most right-wing administration in the country’s political history. It formed in 2023 through a coalition of the centre-right National Coalition Party, the far-right populist party Perussuomalaiset (The Finn’s), the Swedish People’s Party, and the Christian Democrats.

Source: telegram channel "Fires of freedom" Translate: Anarchist Black Cross Moscow On May 23, anarchist Ruslan Sidiki was sentenced to a record-breaking 29 years in prison. He received this sentence for two acts of sabotage against military infrastructure: blowing up a railway track and carrying out a drone attack on an airfield. Ruslan explained his actions as an attempt to hinder attacks on Ukraine. Ruslan carefully planned the actions to avoid casualties.