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Network Case Defendant Viktor Filinkov Released from Russian Penal Colony

Antifascist Viktor Filinkov released after seven years in prison on trumped-up charges as part of the notorious Network Case.

Programmer Viktor Filinkov was released after seven years in police custody and prison as a defendant and convict in the Network Case. Filinkov himself told Mediazona that he had been released in the morning from Penal Colony No. 1 in Orenburg, after which police officers drove him to the border with Kazakhstan and turned him over to local border guards. Before his release, Filinkov was…

Network Case Defendant Viktor Filinkov Released from Russian Penal Colony

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Ilya Shakursky Solidarity Event: Kleiner Schäferkamp 46, Hamburg, 23 November 2024

If you have friends in Hamburg, send them to Schwarzmarkt (Kleiner Schäferkamp 46) on Friday for an event in solidarity with Russian political prisoner Ilya Shakursky (The Network Case).

This Saturday, 23 November, at 7 p.m., the last presentation about and fundraiser for Ilya Shakursky will take place at Schwarzmarkt in Hamburg (Kleiner Schäferkamp 46). After the new year, a big update is in store for the project, but in the meantime we look forward to seeing the local public and thank everyone who has supported us this year! Event language: German Subscribe to Ilya’s Telegram…

Ilya Shakursky Solidarity Event: Kleiner Schäferkamp 46, Hamburg, 23 November 2024

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Ilya Shakursky Solidarity Event: Rigaer Strasse 94, Berlin, 2 December 2023

Source: Ilya Shakursky (Telegram), 6 November 2023

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Ilya Shakursky: Letter to a Friend

Since the all-out invasion of Ukraine, political repression in Russia has intensified, targeted in the first place at anti-war protest. But this is the outcome of a 20-year slide towards dictatorship. Russia’s antifascist movement has been a prime target for both armed nationalists and the state: it culminated in 2017–19 with the torture and imprisonment of the “Network” case defendants. In July…

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Meduzad. Again

The ridiculous Meduza strikes again, now deliberately misnaming the (nonexistent) “Network” (and, by the by, passing off the FSB’s torture-“collaborated” fairytales as facts) after just as deliberately, three years ago, torpedoing the broad-based solidarity movement that had finally sprung up in support of the defendants in the so-called Network Case.* Source: “‘This regime is not subject to…

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Yuli Boyarshinov Released from Prison

Yuli Boyarshinov (left, facing camera) and his father, Nikolai (foreground), after Yuli’s releasefrom the penal colony in Segezha on 21 April 2023. Photo courtesy of RFE/RL Yuli Boyarshinov, convicted in the Petersburg portion of the so-called Network Case, has been released, our correspondent reports. His parents, wife, and friends were on hand to meet Boyarshinov. Boyarshinov was released…

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Ilya Shakursky's 27th Birthday

Ilya Shakursky. Photo courtesy of Elena Shakurskaya Today, April 10, my son Ilya turns 27. This is the sixth birthday he has celebrated behind bars. But every year I wait, believe, and hope that he be released from captivity and be near us. I naively believe in justice and truth. A miracle must happen sometime and Goodness will triumph! My son, the best in the world, I lovingly congratulate you…

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Spring Fundraiser for Political Prisoner Viktor Filinkov

Viktor Filinkov Fundraiser for continuing Viktor “Vitya” Filinkov’s campaign against the FSIN, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service! I haven’t written here for a long time generally and about Vitya in particular. We haven’t seen each other for almost two months. That’s an awfully long time, and I miss him terribly. Soon I will fly back to Orenburg and tell you how Vitya is doing, but after…

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