WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA UKRAINE News Journal Update - (en) Russia, Avtonom: Justice and Cats: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 113 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 1. 500 days ---- This Saturday it has been five hundred days since the war

against Ukraine has been going on. It began earlier, but the open invasion
was exactly five hundred days old. Five hundred days of pain and horror
that Russian fascism brought to Ukrainian soil. "Where have you been for
eight years?" In the same place, they fought against Russian fascism. ----
But where were those who rejoiced at the capture of Crimea, which launched
the mechanism of war, and then resented the armed rebuff from Ukraine in
the Donbass? The fact that civilians were dying in the Donbass is terrible,
but these people were Ukrainians at the time the war began in the Donbass.
Not all of them dreamed of Russian citizenship. For Putin, all this time it
was beneficial that as many civilians as possible died. This served as a
justification for the official invasion of Russian troops into the
territory of Ukraine. Already without stories about the military trade and
"they will not".

The "Russian world" will now be firmly and forever associated with war,
famine, devastation, lawlessness and torture cellars. Revanchism, dreams of
imperial greatness, which were presented to the peoples of the Russian
Federation under the guise of anti-fascism and the restoration of justice -
this is fascism. Fascism grows well where there is a lot of poverty and
despair, where there is nowhere for the common man to find justice.

By the way, there is a version that the "heroes" of the "Russian world"
were cleared out by the Wagnerites. It is interesting that this is true or
not, but it appeared precisely after Prigogine's "justice march".

2. About justice. The end of Prigogine's trolls?
So, let's talk about justice. "The rebellion cannot end in success,
otherwise it is called differently." And although the original epigram of
John Harington was written about treason, in the case of Prigogine's
attempted rebellion, both the original and Marshak's translation will do.
Despite the fact that the "march of justice" was decisive, but not long,
the echo from it will sound for quite a long time, it painfully clearly
showed both the indecision of the security forces when it comes to not
dispersing unarmed citizens, and the support of some Russians for such a
kind of justice.

Actually, when I compared Prigozhin's number 109 with Mussolini in trends,
I turned out to be right. But ... Mussolini did reach Rome, but Prigogine
did not have enough gunpowder. He is no better character than those who run
the country, but until recently he was better at selling fascism under the
guise of anti-fascism and "justice".

The Bumaga publication published an interview with now former employees of
the Patriot media holding. According to former employees, not all of those
who worked in the holding were, as they say, "ideological", they say, the
work is just like that, no matter who. Well, they will not call themselves
corrupt. Neither the polygraph test nor the surveillance by the security
cameras bothered many, although they made them nervous.

Here, for example, are the arguments of Vladimir Yagudaev, the SMM manager
of Politika Segodnya: "People were just typing the text. This is not a
distinctive feature of the "Patriot", this is massively in other media:
both in liberal and in state ones. Today here, tomorrow there. The collapse
of the holding has become a disaster for many, because they need to look
for a new job, worry about it. " And I thought that it was necessary to
worry about the fact that people die every day in the war.

3. And more about justice
Someone will ask, "are there still normal journalists in Russia?" Well, how
to answer this, many honest journalists were forced to leave in order to
write the truth and call the war a war. Someone is trying to continue their
work in Russia, despite all the risks. The other day, Novaya Gazeta
journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov were attacked .
Despite the threats, they flew to Chechnya to attend the trial of Zarema
Musayeva, the mother of the Chechen oppositionists, whom Putin's favorite
Kadyrov decided to take revenge on in his jackal style. In the photographs
taken in the hospital, Elena Milashina looks as if she had been to the
Gestapo. But, of course, the attackers were not found.

But when it was necessary to find a person who replaced the price tags in
the store with anti-war propaganda, they quickly found him. Artist
Alexandra Skochilenko, arrested on a denunciation, faces up to 10 years in
prison.

Prigozhin, who staged a military mutiny, how many years did he get? That's
it. Fair? By the way, he shot down a military plane, but the Ministry of
Defense did not have any particular objections. But he had a reason to bomb
Voronezh, which he did.

But about Sasha Skochilenko, the prosecutor said: "The defendant is accused
of a cruel and dangerous crime, her relatives live abroad, there are no
grounds for mitigating the preventive measure."

What? Peskov, Putin's press secretary, has a daughter who lives well
abroad, but is he allowed to? Where's the justice? The bombing of Ukrainian
cities, therefore, is not a cruel and dangerous crime, but a crime, on the
contrary, this is information about such a bombing on a store price tag.
Fair?

By the way, about informers. Rostov scammer and pro-government blogger was
sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in a colony-settlement for extortion. He
asked to be sent to Belarus , like Prigozhin. Fair enough, as he probably
thinks.

4. Finist Yasny Sokol
On July 7, Sergei Makhrakov, the former director of the Listvyazhnaya mine,
where 51 people, including five mine rescuers, died as a result of an
explosion and smoke in 2021, was sentenced to two years in a penal colony .

But the creators of the performance "Finist the Clear Sokol" are accused
under the article on justifying terrorism. The so-called examination found
in the text "signs of the ideology of radical feminism and the struggle
against the androcentric social structure of Russia", and at the same time
with Islamism and jihadism. The fact that one contradicts the other did not
bother the so-called experts at all. Despite the conclusions of the Russian
Official Center for Forensic Expertise, which admitted that the
"destructological examination" that formed the basis of the criminal case
cannot be used as evidence, Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were
left under arrest . Such is justice in Russian.

5. "Look up!"
Well, okay, the layman will say, I'm a small person. I don't get into
politics, I don't understand anything about it, they won't touch me. And
... sends his sons to the slaughter or goes to the slaughter himself.
Because war is also politics. At the same time, the layman can consider
justice in a very peculiar way, they say, it is not the government that
organized the war and mobilization that is to blame, but ... deviationists
are to blame. So the neighbor did not go to war or left the country
altogether, so they took me, quiet and obedient, but with bad kidneys and
poor eyesight. It's the neighbor's fault, where is the justice?

It makes you want to say: "Look up!". Where is the justice that while some
have cesspools and debts, others live without denying themselves anything,
not because they are so smart, but because the authorities give them the
opportunity to quietly steal, that is, "do business". Or work, for example,
as a deputy in the Duma. So to speak, a representative of the people.

And then the life of such an inhabitant, well, who still does not go to war
and remains alive, will only get worse. The war needs a lot of money. Well,
Putin and his entourage, as well as big businessmen and deputies, will not
deny themselves everything, will they? So who's going to get ripped off?
Well, yes, their own citizens. And loyalists as well, along with those who
tried to sit quietly, otherwise, they say, it will be worse. Will be.
Actually, this "worse" has already happened, because the war. Or how, no
one expected that the Ukrainians would resist? And find allies?

And as for internal repression, how? Again write letters "Comrade Stalin,
there has been a monstrous mistake"?

6. Forecasts and seals
It can be difficult for us, as anarchists, to understand how people in the
Russian Federation, so to speak, are ready to sacrifice their freedom,
their choice, their lives, in the end, so that nothing really depends on
them and their desires, and everything is decided for them some boss who
knows better. These people are usually driven by fear and frustration in
trying to change something.

Anarchism provides an alternative in the form of both social justice and a
stateless society, but anarchism implies the activity of everyone and
everyone. It was the thirst for justice and the desire to make the world a
better place that led me to anarchism. And also the unwillingness to be
commanded by someone, or I commanded someone.

Previous "Trends"  were very pessimistic in their forecasts regarding the
future of Russians. Probably, I will not be more optimistic if I say that
the alternative to turning Russia into North Korea could be disintegration
into independent territories, which, by the way, for me, as an anarchist
and opponent of the empire, is just optimistic. There is no optimism that
this collapse will not happen bloodlessly, and the Russians may face a
civil war and ethnic conflicts.

So what to do? Following my like-minded people, I will repeat: "EVERYTHING
that is possible, and everything that you are good at or can learn." And it
is very important to train people to interact and help each other through
horizontal networks that continue to develop. When a person knows that, if
anything, neighbors or like-minded people will stand next to him, he is no
longer so afraid of change. Even if these are friends in the embroidery
circle, and they have their own friends and girlfriends, then this is no
longer "one in the field is not a warrior", well, or "not one in the field
is not a warrior".

Even if, for example, you love cats, and if the poor cat gets sick and you
need expensive and sanctioned medicine, then how will you save the cat?
That's the same. Through a horizontal network of other cat lovers. My
friend here saved the cat, so you can write a whole detective story about
how medicines were obtained, or a melodrama, how money was collected. And,
by the way, cats are a symbol of anarchism.

So, while saving the cats, let's not forget about the anarchists who need
our help. See the lists of the Anarchist Black Cross at the link .

7. Firefly
Well, not to be too pessimistic: remember how the trolls died in Tolkien's
book about the hobbit? They petrified in the sun. Trolls are afraid of the
light, it kills them. So all these trolls, orcs, Saurons and Rotmouths are
more pleasant to remain in the darkness of the current fascism. The light
of truth scares them, and for good reason. The night won't last forever.
But now, in order to become brighter, you need to be a fire for yourself
and for others. Even if it seems to you that you are just a small firefly,
then you are already making the world brighter.

And since in my previous "trends" I quoted the letter to the Decembrists of
the poet Pushkin, then it's time to quote the answer of the poet Odoevsky
from hard labor:

Our mournful labor will not be wasted,
A flame will kindle from a spark,
And our enlightened people
Will gather under the holy banner.

We forge swords from chains
And we will rekindle the flame of freedom!
She will descend on the kings,
And the nations will sigh with joy!

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Issue prepared by NinaT

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