This is episode 98. Here are the highlights of the past week's agenda, as well as
a guest report from our comrades in Yerevan. ---- 1. International wanted listfor Putin and Mr. Xi Jinping When the last episode of our podcast was edited, thenews came that Putin had been put on the international wanted list. The situationis significant, it is worth talking about it a week later. The pro-Kremlinpropagandists are right: it is still hard to imagine a country that wouldactually try to arrest Putin if he came there. Including because of the threat ofa nuclear strike. ---- But who is now ready to host Putin, except for Lukashenka,Rakhmon, Kim Jong-Un and the Taliban? In the summer, Putin planned to go to SouthAfrica for the BRICS summit. So far, the South African authorities say they donot plan to detain Putin. But they don't say very confidently.The warrant for Putin's arrest shows that the so-called collective Westnevertheless decided to beat the Kremlin to the end, and now they are unlikely toagree to any kind of agreement on Ukraine. In itself, the "collective West" isfar from being an example of justice for us.But regime change in Russia is a necessary condition for any adequate developmentof the country and an end to the carnage in eastern Ukraine. For hundreds ofthousands of Russian relocators, this is an opportunity to return home.After the warrant for Putin's arrest (although preparations for the visit beganearlier), Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Moscow and spoke warmly with the"Russian tsar." Western countries are also unscrupulous in choosing partners. Butstill there is a civil society, to some extent capable of influencing the state.The Chinese authorities are practically not burdened with the problem of publicopinion, so they do business with the most frostbitten dictators. North Korealargely exists in its current form thanks to a partnership with the Chinese "bigbrothers". The Putin regime is getting closer to about the same position.And for the third time in the history of "Trends of Order and Chaos" we arerecalling the anti-utopia "The Day of the Oprichnik". The corrupt dictatorship "ala russe", which Vladimir Sorokin described already in 2006, was ... China's rawmaterial appendage.Sorokin's style appears more and more often. Recently, Andrei Tkachev, a priestfrom the Russian Orthodox Church, told the military how to kill with a prayer:"Without prayer, do not equip a package of GRADs. You put each "cigar" in and(say) "Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy!".2. Findus and the bad guysThis week, the authorities opened a case against part of Memorial's employees forthe "rehabilitation of Nazism." However, the war unleashed by the authorities ofthe Russian Federation and internal repressions demonstrate the opposite - it isthe authorities who are engaged in the rehabilitation of Nazism, and not memorialhistorians with human rights activists.The curator of cultural programs at Memorial is Alexandra Polivanova, atranslator of the well-known and beloved by many books about the kitten Findus.Alexandra writes on her Facebook page that one of the eshniks present at thesearch was surprised that she was a translator. and said that as a child it washis favorite book. Alas, not all readers of good books grow up to be good people.An anonymous poetic reworking of Vysotsky's lines from The Ballad of Childhoodhas already appeared:"If the door is kicked out with a broad shoulder,You call "Memorial" fascists,If you wear a badge with a vertical sword, -So, in vain you read about Findus as a child.Books will also be written about the Ashniks, but they can only claim to benegative characters. Well, what else could they be? Who ate the sweets, and thosethat did not gobbled up, poked them? The Telegram channel of Memorial alsoreports that during the searches, the security forces looked for evidence of therehabilitation of Nazism in the most unexpected places, including under thetoilet lid and in cat litter. Findus is perplexed. During the searches, securityofficials smashed the Moscow office of Memorial, according to the stories of itsemployees, after drinking vodka found in one of the cabinets.Memorial is being persecuted -- and this is far from the first criminal caseagainst the organization -- because the current regime infuriates that theorganization is studying Stalinist repressions. Former President Dmitry Medvedev,who has now been appointed to oversee supplies for the army, recently quotedStalin at a meeting of directors of military factories.The Kremlin regime is now proud of comparisons with Stalin, and they imprisonpeople for comparisons with Hitler. Yet both Stalin and Hitler were idealists.They killed people by the hundreds of thousands and millions, representing abrighter future. And not just for the sake of preserving their palaces andyachts. So the tragedy of the 30s-40s of the 20th century is being repeated inRussia now in the form of a farce.3. Under the pavement - beachesAlmost simultaneously with the news about the "Memorial" came the news about thedemand of the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the "Sova" center. The SOVAInformation and Analytical Center studies the problems of nationalism andxenophobia, the relationship between religion and society, as well as the misuseof anti-extremist legislation.Who, if not the Nazis, can be hindered by the monitoring of nationalism andxenophobia? The co-founder of the center, Galina Kozhevnikova, in her time in adebate with Navalny, who was playing the nationalist card, literally beat himwith facts and statistics. We recommend watching this video in its entirety.Despite all the trash, a lot of cool things are happening in Russia: people arepreparing DIY festivals, the libertarian publishing houses Napilnik and ChernyKvadrat announce new books, the Chippolino Moscow Library has releasedmerchandise in support of anarchist prisoners.Yandex.Taxi drivers, following the Wildberries employees, put forward demands onthe corporation to pay them. In the Vladimir region, doctors are protestingbecause they are underpaid by the state. And the governor of the Vladimir regionhas already called the protests "immoral."Interesting news came from Buryatia: the inhabitants of the village of Ulukchikan(about half a thousand people) collected 85 thousand rubles and built a woodenbridge across the river without the help of the state. In 2020, they alsorefurbished the playground, improved the alley, updated the street signs andinstalled street lighting."Under the cobblestones of the pavement is the beach!", as they said in Paris in1968.4. Report from YerevanFor this issue of "Trends of Order and Chaos", the Armenian anarchist media"Black Banner" prepared a story about the Yerevan refugee squat.Our comrades write that after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, manyRussians (including anarchists) migrated to Armenia (more than 100 thousandpeople). But it just so happened that there is a war going on in Armenia itself.While Putin is officially recognized as a war criminal in The Hague, Aliyev andErdogan, without experiencing any obstacles from the world community, kill andbomb Armenians, destroy Armenian cultural monuments and, finally, blockadeArtsakh, depriving the 120,000th population of the region food and medicine. Inaddition, the country was flooded with a huge mass of refugees who did notreceive proper assistance from the state.In 2018, quite a lot of people settled in the former building of the Ministry ofDefense, which had been empty since 2008. They made repairs, planted trees, ran ahousehold. An unusual squat, especially since, unlike typical hipster squats inthe Russian Federation, Europe or America, part of those living there areveterans of three or four wars.On February 16 of this year, police officers came to the building and drove allthe residents out into the street. And there were about 120 families there.Authorities have given twenty families the opportunity to live in a hostel forthe time being, some live with relatives, and some have pitched tents near theirformer home and are trying to regain the right to continue living in a squat. Infact, it is a sit-in strike.As one of the squatters said: "If the state cannot help us, then God is with it,even if it just doesn't interfere, doesn't plunder and doesn't destroy what wehave landscaped."Also, according to the stories of squatters, the police during the eviction wereengaged in rampant theft. So, one general (who is now a squatter) was robbed by apolice officer of a military uniform. From the same Yerevan police, to which theémigré liberal party from the Ark shouted "thank you!" after their rallies.The evicted residents periodically stage demonstrations. Comrades from the BlackBanner managed to come to one of them. It was on Thursday near the governmentbuilding.Even before the start of the event, the employees of the "valiant" Yerevan policesaid: "As sources tell us, they will not come to us today." This turned out to bea blatant lie. Those in power simply do not want people to know about veteransquatters, to have Russian-language media publish materials about this.As the squatters said at the event: "We went out into the streets during the 2018revolution. And what gave us this revolution? We, war veterans who have giveneverything to this country, are forced to huddle on the street. We were kickedout by the State Expenditure Committee, the Ministry of Defense shrugged off ourrequests. After the start of the war in Ukraine, it also became difficult formany ordinary citizens, because due to the flow of migrants, apartment ownersraised prices by 200-300 thousand drams - the average salary in the republic!"This problem is also relevant for relocators. Some of them also had to spend thenight on the street. If you are not an IT specialist and not a representative ofthe upper middle class, then for a penny salary you simply cannot rent anapartment here.The landlords are very boorish and self-righteous people here who, without doinganything inclusive for society, make money from people in need.The anarchists from the Black Banner support the resistance of the people to thebest of their ability. They supply firewood for heating tents, provideinformational support in the media. Chernoye Znamya plans to continue interactingwith squatters with whom trust and comradely relations have already been established.Read on our website one more material about squatters from Yerevan and theirstruggle for their rights.https://avtonom.org/news/general-v-erevanskom-skvote-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-98_________________________________________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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