WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA - news journal UPDATE - (en) Russia, Avtonom: Return of Russia: "Trends of Order and Chaos", Episode 191 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Hello everyone! We continue our weekly podcast "Trends of Order and

Chaos". This is Episode 191, the first episode of 2025. What will
Russian libertarians have to do in the coming year? ---- Resistance in
the country ---- The Putin regime manages to maintain the economic
situation in the country. In combination with the increasingly harsh
suppression of any dissent, this makes it possible to wage war and
continue to tighten the screws. If we sum up the results of 2024 for
Russia, it seems that everything has been getting worse and worse - and
the machine of authoritarianism and prohibition shows no signs of
stopping. The conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement between
Russia and North Korea is a good symbol of this process.

But as we have just seen in the example of Bashar al-Assad, autocracies
can turn out to be much weaker than they can pretend to be. And inside
Russia there is definitely a great demand for change, a significant part
of Russians do not want the bacchanalia of war and tightening of the
situation to continue. For example, this is shown by the data of two
recent sociological surveys.

Sociological surveys in Russia are a scary business these days, but
these questions were specifically formulated in a way that is not
dangerous for those answering. 84% of Russians aged 18-29, 67% aged
30-44, 53% aged 45-59, and 47% aged 60 and older support an immediate
ceasefire in Ukraine, and only then negotiations. The return of the
death penalty is supported by 31% of Russians aged 18-29, 46% aged
30-44, 58% aged 45-59, and 65% aged 60 and older. That is, the younger
the Russians, the less they are interested in bonds, chthonic, the
revival of the empire or the USSR and everything that keeps Vladimir
Vladimirovich on the throne.

Autonomous Action is now a media group, but we work primarily to revive
the "offine" movement in Rus'. In 2024, our agitation appeared on the
streets of Maikop, Ufa, Odintsovo, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk,
Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, Yakutsk, the Nizhny Novgorod region, Veliky
Novgorod, Volzhsky.

Our campaign materials can be downloaded (anti-war from here) from
Avtonom.org (in Russia it opens with VPN), with precautions printed on
available printers or risographs and distributed. We also provide
information support for open events that are still possible and are held
in Russia. And we also need designers, translators, editors, video
editors, etc. Write to us in the telegram bot, we are always ready to
interact. If you are in Russia, of course, we recommend paying more
attention to your safety, be more careful.

Anarchist diaspora
A large impetus for relocation from Russia was given by the full-scale
invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine, before that, relocation
happened on its own: someone left because it became unbearable from what
was happening in the country, someone managed to escape from criminal
prosecution.

Not all, but very many Russian anarchists thus ended up in a couple of
dozen very different countries. Moving to another country is a shocking
event that requires moral strength, money, efforts to master a new
language, familiarization with the mentality of a new society for you.

In all the countries where Russian anarchists ended up, there is a lot
of interesting things that would not be harmful to transfer to Russia,
but also enough of all sorts of wildness and evil. Russian anarchists
are more or less involved in the movements of the countries of
relocation. But there still remains a feeling that we are not in these
countries forever. That we are involved first and foremost in the
sorrows and joys of Russian society, and our purpose is to achieve
change in precisely one sixth of the land.

So Russian anarchists are organizing abroad. From January 10 to 12,
Helsinki will host another festival, "Santa Claus vs. Putin," and there
was a strong anarchist column at the recent Berlin march of the Russian
opposition. Russian-speaking libertarians in Germany and neighboring
countries have created the Äppelwoi Komitee, and are interested in
contacts with new people. There are Russian-speaking libertarian
communities in other countries, too.

We must do what we must, and we will definitely celebrate the New Year
on Red Square with black and red fireworks under giant light projections
of Bakunin and Kropotkin on the walls of the Kremlin. Why not celebrate
2026 like that?

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and
Chaos" the participants of Autonomous Action and other authors give
anarchist assessments of current events. Listen to us on YouTube,
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The issue was prepared by Listyev

https://avtonom.org/news/vozvrashchenie-rossii-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-191
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