#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Russia, avtonom: Looking for a place in #Australia: Trends in Order and Chaos, episode 68 (August 21) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Hi all! Today is Sunday, August 21st, and we continue our Order and Chaos Trends

podcast. This is episode 68. What interested us last week? ---- Listen on
SoundCloud ---- Numbers have arrived ---- Scientists at Rutgers University (New
Jersey) simulated the consequences of a nuclear war between Russia and the United
States. According to their calculations, 360 million people are guaranteed to
die, and then 5 billion will die of starvation due to the destruction of 90% of
agriculture on the planet. ---- We have already addressed the need for a complete
ban on nuclear weapons - as a factor in the survival and ability of mankind for
collective action. What else to add? According to the forecast of scientists,
even in the most gloomy scenario, Australia and New Zealand are guaranteed to
survive.

About six years ago, some Russian-speaking person ordered the Avtonom magazine
from us to Australia. And we sent the magazine, but shamefully lost the address.
That is, our team does not have a residence permit in Australia! But nothing: now
we are holding a sale of Avtonom magazines (the issue was discontinued due to the
war). Discounts are announced for customers from Australia and New Zealand.

Well, residents of Moscow (there are some!) who need free food can be helped
right now. In our telegram channel, we published options for helping the Moscow
group Food Instead of Bombs.

Claps turn into applause
At the front, no big changes. The Russian army set the immediate goal of reaching
the administrative borders of the Donetsk region, the Ukrainians - the
de-occupation of Kherson. Neither has happened yet, the military continues to
destroy each other, and artillery shelling and drone attacks make the surrounding
regions less and less habitable.

And not only the south-east of Ukraine. Attacks on the Russian Belgorod, Kursk
and Bryansk regions occur almost daily. The Kremlin did not initially worry about
the inhabitants of these regions, but now Crimea has been added to this list -
until recently, a sacred place for the Putin regime. Since the attacks are daily,
I have already seen the joke that "claps" (as the official Russian media
bashfully call explosions) turn into applause.

If shelling or attacking drones is a matter of air defense, then preventing
sabotage is the field of activity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
FSB. In past years, fighters against extremism were engaged in planting Jehovah's
Witnesses, demonstrators who threw plastic cups at riot police, as well as
identifying posts about Mikhail Zhlobitsky. 80% of such "crimes" in quotation
marks can be solved without lifting the body from the chair in front of the
laptop. So many arsonists of military registration and enlistment offices and
saboteurs often go unpunished.

But not always: The Anarchist Black Cross has compiled a list of people
imprisoned for their anti-war stance. Among them are many arsonists of
administrative buildings. The list is obviously not complete: there are only
those whose addresses in the pre-trial detention center are known.

In any case, it is always worth being careful, and it is good to think about what
and why you are doing.

In the outgoing week, the trial of our friend, a street artist from Khabarovsk
Maxim "Hadad" Smolnikov, began for an ancient post about Zhlobitsky. The house of
anti-fascist Andrey Polyakov in Kaluga was searched: presumably, also because of
some old post about Zhlobitsky. But Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the "Network"
case, successfully manages to challenge the penalties of the colony
administration. By the way, the coming week is a week of united actions in
support of anarchist prisoners. The corresponding event in Moscow will be held on
August 27 in "Only Yourself".

Protest over advertising?
In the fall, we are waiting for an interesting story around amendments to the law
on advertising, which can lead to mass protests. The state came up with the idea
of ​​a "single advertising operator". The bill was adopted in the first reading,
and in its current form it kills the services "Headhunter", "Avito", "Yuda" and
the like: because any announcement of a job search / job offer, sale of a baby
stroller, etc. must be coordinated with the state. This will affect millions of
people. Perhaps this nonsense will be removed from the final version of the law,
but the Russian state knows how to choose the worst from bad options.

Some travel blogging
This week, the city of Kimry in the Tver region was without water for more than
five days due to a global water supply failure. Water was distributed on the
streets according to the schedule from tanks, people bought mineral water in
stores for any money. Soup was cooked on it and flushed in toilets.

This news aroused the desire to include Ilya Varlamov: summer is coming to an
end, it's time to exchange impressions about trips.

The author of this episode of "Trends" was in Kimry this summer, before the
plumbing collapse. There are amazing views of the Volga, the old architecture has
been preserved, there is a history of its own ... It would be possible to make a
wonderful tourist cluster. In fact, there are dead roads, boarded up windows, a
clear feeling of the extinction of human civilization, around the moldy late
USSR.    A normal picture for Kimr: in the very center of the city on the
embankment there are four-story houses, half rotten and collapsed - and people
still live in the standing entrances, and even with plastic windows.

At the same time, the whole city is pasted over with the letter Z. In the
morning, with a group of attendants, I was waiting for the grocery store to open.
What did the grandmothers discuss? That Ivan Urgant is a traitor to the motherland.

Ok, the Tver region is generally depressive, somehow unsuccessfully fit into
post-Soviet capitalism, the region's economy is destroyed. Here is the Tula
region - at the top of all ratings. Was there recently too. In Tula, a lot of
cafes, shops, businesses work. The city center and tourist services are made at a
good European level. Gingerbread, samovars, the Tula Tokarev pistol and Leo
Tolstoy are promoted as local highlights. The authorities of Tula, of course, do
not see a contradiction when a poster with the letter Z on the street side by
side with a quote from Tolstoy...

But a little from the center you go into the yards - the houses are monstrously
murdered, trolleybuses and buses on the streets - if not from the late USSR, then
from the filming of "Mad Max" or "Kin-dza-dzy".

The big problem is that the Russians still understand little that every day of
the war is pushing further and further the putting in order of the conditional
Kimry - and there are at least hundreds of such towns across the country - well,
normal yards and buses, for example, for Tula.

And the more Ukrainian land goes to Russia, the slower our real problems will be
solved. Trillions of rubles will flow into the rebuilding of the destroyed
Ukrainian cities, which could raise life within the country.

But recently I came across figures that more than a third of Russians plan their
lives based on horoscopes, and about the same number believe that the Sun
revolves around the earth. And this wonderful social stratum coincides with the
audience of Russian TV.

So, to bring Russia into an adequate state, there is a gigantic work to be done.

We, Autonomous Action, are also doing this to the best of our ability. Now we are
working on the restoration of the libertarian and anarchist movement in Russia
after a period of stagnation and repression, and we need your support to improve
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Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events.
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