1. Seven years in prison for anti-war speech ---- Yes, this is exactly the term
received by Alexei Gorinov, a Moscow municipal deputy. His crime was that he"wrongly spoke out" at the council of his district about a "special operation."Gorinov is one of the first convicted under the new articles of the Criminal Codeon the so-called "discrediting the army." There are many other defendants, themost obvious example is the St. Petersburg artist Alexandra Skochilenko. She isin jail because of several price tags in the store, replaced with tiny anti-warleaflets. ---- In the fight against anti-war protests, the security forces actaccording to the canons of terror: they have no goal of jailing everyone. Dozensof those prosecuted under the criminal code, hundreds of other people foractually the same thing (posts, graffiti, statements) start administrative cases.Also for "discrediting the army", but with fines of tens of thousands of rubles,and not imprisonment.The goal of the security forces is to maintain an atmosphere of fear among thepopulation, to prevent public anti-war actions.Since the beginning of the war and until now, there have been many reports ofburned cars with Z-symbols, arson of military registration and enlistmentoffices, damage to railway tracks in places where army trains should pass.Separate acts are committed in the name of the libertarians. All this is nothappening so far in such a volume as to seriously destabilize the army, cops andspecial services. So far, it looks more like acts of existential despair on thepart of individuals or small groups.But when a person who protests against the war gets approximately the samepunishment for speaking publicly and setting fire to a military commissariat...It can be assumed that a culture of political polemics is unlikely to develop inthe Russian Federation.And yes, we are again advertising our anti-war page (we are blocked in Russia,use VPN) - there are mock-ups of anti-war leaflets and stickers. Print, paste,send us pictures. We also do not know how to stop the war, but it is impossiblenot to protest against it.2. Welcome to Russian research institutesThe highest officials of the government constantly say that the RussianFederation - in the conditions in which the country finds itself - urgently needsa lot of IT specialists, aviation engineers, and other specialists working forthe state and / or at least within the country, aviation engineers, and otherspecialists with a good technical education.They are promised deferments from the army, mortgage benefits, a simplifiedprocedure for obtaining citizenship, and so on. Recently, the FSB did not stayout of this trend and carried out an incendiary PR campaign for Russian science.Novosibirsk scientist Dmitry Kolker was prosecuted for treason for lectures hegave to Russia's strategic friends, the Chinese, in 2018. Kolker coordinated thelecture materials with the FSB, but recently the special services and themilitary changed their minds and saw the disclosure of state secrets.Only the scientist by 2022 developed not only problems with the law, but also asevere cancerous tumor. Kolker was arrested in the hospital. Relatives told theChekists: Kolker should be under constant medical supervision. The securityofficers answered: it's okay, the conditions in Lefortovo are good, there areeven refrigerators in the cells.Kolker was transferred to Moscow, where he spent a day - it is not clear, theLefortovo pre-trial detention center, with all its refrigerators, has not yetadmitted that it accepted the Novosibirsk prisoner. What happened next? Who couldhave foreseen: Kolker is urgently hospitalized in Moscow in a hospital withinwalking distance from Lefortovo, and he dies there.In Novosibirsk, the security forces are now breaking people's memorials to DmitryKolker spontaneously created by citizens.For IT people who are thinking about whether to work for the Russian Federation,there is another vivid example of this week before their eyes. History with theathletes of the Continental Hockey League.Russian hockey players, who this year signed contracts with the much moreprestigious and monetary North American National Hockey League ... Suddenly,there were problems with military IDs. Instead of a sports career in the UnitedStates, they will now go to serve in the Russian army. As if dozens of heftytwenty-five-year-old guys breaking the ice at Russian professional hockey matchesstill have everything in order with the military. Probably all of themunanimously unfit for military service for health reasons.3. Denazification of the Murmansk regionKovdor is a small town in the Murmansk region. Of these places, most of all youngguys are recruiting to "denazify" Ukraine as cannon fodder. The other day, due toa drunken conflict in a local bar owned by Azerbaijanis, a mass brawl broke outin the city.A criminal case has been opened. As Novaya Gazeta writes , passions are runninghigh in the city, not only xenophobic, but also Nazi slogans against Caucasiansappear on the walls. It is impossible not to note the really great progress thatRussian society has made in terms of interethnic relations compared to zero.There is much less nationalistic violence, in general people are getting used toliving in a multinational environment. But the problem of xenophobia andnationalism is rather driven into a dark closet than solved: at a time of crisis,there is every chance that it will show itself harshly.And the Russian Federation, as a state, behaves like a typical RussianFederation: the security forces made a fool of themselves to imprison people forxenophobic posts on VKontakte. But, for example, there is still no state-fundedprogram for the adaptation in schools of students for whom Russian is not theirnative language.4. In search of logicThere is already a hundred and thirty some day of war there. She has no end insight. The question remains unanswered: why did all this happen? Destroyedcities, tens of thousands of dead - I don't know if the number is already in thehundreds of thousands.Still, why did the Russian army go to save the Ukrainians on February 24? Insearch of an answer, the author of this issue of Trends has been readingMargarita Simonyan, Ramzan Kadyrov, Igor Strelkov and others since the end ofFebruary.Let's take a look at their arguments."Ukraine is a corrupt state."This is true. But the Russian Federation is not corrupt?"Before the war, the average standard of living in Russia was higher than inUkraine. When the Russian Federation takes over Ukraine, it will be there too."Obviously it will not be the same as before the war. In addition, even theintegration of the Crimea, captured without military action, into the Russianeconomy gobbled up huge funds from the Russian budget. There is an example ofdestroyed and rebuilt Chechnya. For the suppression of separatism in Chechnya andthroughout the North Caucasus, Kadyrov enjoys a special honor with Putin. ButKadyrov admits that Chechnya's economy is completely subsidized. Only gentlemenclose to Ramzan bathe in luxury there, the average standard of living in Chechnyais definitely not higher than the average all-Russian. The more Ukrainianterritories - obviously with huge destruction of infrastructure - the RussianFederation will get as a result of the war, the more heavy the burden will be onthe Russian economy."In partnership with the European Union, Ukraine has been assigned the role of aperipheral region."It's true, you can look at the Baltic countries. In the USSR they were ashowcase, in the European Union they are backyards that do not have theopportunity to lobby their economic interests at the pan-European level. FromLithuania and Latvia (in Estonia the situation is better) - a huge migration ofthe population. Only for some reason, Latvians, Lithuanians and Estoniansfiercely do not want to return to the Russian Empire, and they help the ArmedForces of Ukraine in every way they can."The Russian army protects Russian culture in Ukraine."Everything that the Russian Federation has been doing since 2014, and especiallysince February 24, 2022, is a tragedy for Russian culture. Tens of millions ofpeople who previously spoke Russian are gradually learning Ukrainian. And even ifPutin suddenly seizes the entire territory of Ukraine, most of theRussian-speaking population will run away from the wonderful Russian world."The Russian Federation is a country of family values."Yeah of course. Even the holiday was made on July 8, "the day of love, family andfidelity." The most popular video that day was Dmitry Medvedev's forced videowith his wife, with whom he has not lived for a long time. Family values areignored primarily by senior officials. Among them, if at the age of 50 you didn'tleave your "old wife" and don't make children for your 20-year-old mistress,consider yourself a sucker and a virgin. The main alpha male, Putin, has childrenfrom at least three women. And these are only the children of Putin, who werefound by investigative journalists.Despite the cries of Russian propagandists about the "decayed West", there isenough conservative agenda there. The builders of the "Russian World" are onlypumping the subject of a ban on abortions in Russia. And in Poland, one of themain allies of Ukraine, conservatives are in power, abortions are prohibited. Andeven in the USA at the end of June they managed to abolish the constitutionalright to abortion, which made it possible to ban them in a number of states:anarchists, of course, are now protesting against this on the streets of Americancities."The European Union is Sodom and Gomorrah, there are only gays."This is more like an explanation, and therefore homosexuals in the RussianFederation are subjected to increasingly severe persecution. Let's say theRussian army saves Ukrainians from homosexual practices. But when a shell hits aresidential building and its inhabitants are torn to pieces, among them arepeople of different sexual orientations. The dead will no longer be able to haveany sex, and even in terms of heterosexual traditional bonds for procreation.Chikatilo experienced erotic excitement from the sight of mutilated bodies andthe suffering of people, almost regardless of the sex and age of his victims. IsPutin experiencing something similar? Let's analyze how much Putin and Chikatilohave in common, we will leave for future episodes of the podcast.In continuation of the topic of the fight against homosexuality in the holyRussian Federation, it must be said that not everything is so simple. State DumaSpeaker Vyacheslav Volodin - he recently thanked Putin for a special operation inUkraine, "which saved the lives of tens of thousands of people" - Volodin,according to rumors, is not going smoothly with this issue. Recently, in ourpodcast, we turned to the prophetic dystopia "The Day of the Oprichnik". Rereadthe scene with the oprichnina caterpillar from it. If practically everything elsein this book has come true, why shouldn't this ritual actually exist?5. Viktor Filinkov's victoriesThere is some good news in the field of political repression. The court dismissedthe case on the transfer of anarchist Viktor Filinkov, a prisoner of the Networkcase, to a prison regime . The administration of IK-1 itself petitioned for this,because. "There are currently no grounds for a transfer." Having dismissed thecase, the court explained to the colony that it had the right to again file amotion to transfer Viktor to prison."The repressive machine is bogged down. But she didn't stop. Her wheel fell off,but now they will quickly screw it on, "Victor himself commented on this decision.Support Victor and other prisoners of the "Network" caseWell, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" theparticipants of " Autonomous Action " give anarchist assessments of currentevents. Listen to us on Youtube , SoundCloud and other platforms, visit ourwebsite avtonom.org!Issue No. 62 prepared by Leaveshttps://avtonom.org/news/sodom-gomorra-i-russkiy-mir-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-62-10-iyulya_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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