1. Year of the war ---- The main date of the past week is February 24 - the year
of the war in Ukraine. This sad anniversary was celebrated in one way or anotherby the whole world. American President Biden visited Kyiv for the first time.Putin once again threatened the world with nuclear weapons, announcing thewithdrawal of the Russian Federation from the treaty on the reduction ofstrategic offensive arms. The President's initiative, making the world a littlecloser to nuclear war, was unanimously approved by the State Duma and theFederation Council - everything that is enough to know about the Russianparliament. ---- China has released its proposals to end the Russian-Ukrainianwar - thus denoting its readiness to be included in the situation. Another votewas held at the UN, which showed that the opinion of the world community isapproximately the same as a year ago: 141 countries supported the Ukrainianresolution on the principles for ending the conflict, 7 opposed it (Russia,Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea, Syria, Mali and Nicaragua), 13 - did not vote. And23 abstained: India, China, Iran, post-Soviet countries closely connected withthe Russian Federation, some Asian, African and Latin American countries.Behind these diplomatic exercises, we must not forget that the meat grinder ineastern Ukraine takes hundreds and thousands of lives every day on both sides,and there is no rational justification for this.During the year, up to a million people left Russia, but, nevertheless, theresistance within the country has not been broken. On February 24, in many citiesof Russia, people carried flowers to monuments connected in one way or anotherwith Ukraine, some were detained for picketing.We were pleased to receive a message from Omsk: we had not been given informationfrom this city for a long time, and on the anniversary of the war they sentphotos of anti-war leaflets of left-wing activists.In total, a little less than 20,000 people were detained in Russia duringprotests against the war in a year, a little less than 500 people were prosecutedfor their anti-militarist position, including a little over a hundred for settingfire to military registration and enlistment offices, damaging rails and similaractions.2 President's AssBusinessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is increasingly attracting attention. Because hisprivate army is one of the most successful paramilitary groups in the RussianFederation. Being in the spotlight, Prigogine loved to speak out.There is an interesting point in his comments that is not paid attention to.About why there is a war in Ukraine, Prigozhin replies from time to time: "Wedidn't invent this war." But if the motherland is already at war, all thepeasants must go under the gun.The only question is, what is homeland? For Prigozhin, the homeland is a systemin which his companies have monopolized the market for school meals in manycities. Parents of schoolchildren are often active people in Russia, they madescandals because of the quality of food. And Prigozhin's companies feed hundredsof thousands of security officials who are not used to protesting publicly. AndPrigozhin's companies are also gaining access to minerals in African countrieswhere his private army is fighting, apparently under the wing of the Russianspecial services.That is, the homeland for Prigogine is the place where the recent criminal gotused to cutting money in billions. So that the cash golden cow does not die,Prigogine is ready to lay down hundreds of thousands of lives.Ramzan Kadyrov, Prigozhin's colleague, who has repeatedly called himself "Putin'sinfantryman", recently made an interesting statement: they say, the independenceof Chechnya would be nice, but unrealistic, because Chechnya is a subsidized region.In the mid-2010s, the author of this issue came to a strange event in Moscow,hosted by a murky organization connected with Chechen business. The conferencewas called "Investment attractiveness of Chechnya". They saw her off at a hotelopposite the Kremlin, some Chechen regional minister arrived. I saw how more than500 entrepreneurs voluntarily came there, who surrounded the Chechen minister,selling their ideas - from cryptocurrency mining to the supply of dairy products.The logic of entrepreneurs: a lot of money is poured into Chechnya, if Ramzanlikes it, it will be easy to work.With such a boom in business, why is Chechnya still subsidized? Maybe everythingwould be better if the head of the subsidized region did not hang a Louis Vuittonpunching bag for tens of thousands of dollars in his office, did not invite theson of UFC champions to the 15th anniversary, did not build one palace for hisofficial wife, and the neighboring palace - for informal?Yuri Shevchuk, one of the best musicians of Russian rock, was fined for"discrediting the army" for the phrase "the motherland is not the president'sass, which must be kissed all the time." Shevchuk recently talked about hisinterest in the legacy of Pyotr Kropotkin, and also released a new anti-war song"Motherland, Come Home." I recommend.3. Old age and workRecently, a scandal erupted in Japan: one of the economists said that it would begood for older people to make themselves hara-kiri in order to unload the socialsystem. Then he justified himself, saying that he was misunderstood.This year, Russia will not raise pensions for working pensioners: they explainthis by the fact that now the elderly residents of the territories annexed fromUkraine have to be paid, there is not enough money. Since the beginning of theyear, France has been rocked by protests over raising the retirement age from 62to 64.Life expectancy and overall quality of life are on the rise around the world. Andcapitalist logic assumes that citizens will try to let go later.Of course, we support protests against raising the retirement age: at least untilthe moment when states stop spending billions of dollars on the arms race. Aslong as there are super-rich people who concentrate huge resources in their handsfor extremely dubious merits. As long as the above exists, it cannot be said thatsociety does not have funds to support the elderly.If work becomes more creative, there will be more self-management and lesshierarchy in labor collectives, and the length of the working day will be reduced- obviously, people will be ready to retire later.4. We invite you to cooperateWe, Autonomous Action, have published instructions on how to cooperate with us.Since in the current conditions we are a media group, we are looking for authors,designers, IT specialists, artists, translators. People who know how to work withvideo. We are ready to help with the coverage of any libertarian activity: from acooperative to a lecture hall or anonymous posting of leaflets. We also have ourown campaign materials: both paper and available for download from the site.Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" theparticipants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events.Listen to us on YouTube, SoundCloud and other platforms, visit our websiteavtonom.org, subscribe to our e-mail newsletter!Issue No. 94 prepared by Leaveshttps://avtonom.org/news/chto-ne-nuzhno-celovat-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-94-26-fevralya_________________________________________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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