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Two years ago I was still a student. Two years ago, I successfully passed my last exam, closed the final session and did not return home. Two years ago I became a political prisoner. Two years is already a long time. Two years ago, most of my neighbors were still free, and almost all will be free in the next two years. But for me this is just the beginning. For two years I traveled from cell to cell, changing detention centers and regions one after another, meeting new neighbors and seeing off old ones to freedom. He went to court for two years, proving that freedom is not slavery, war is not peace, and two and two are still four, even if the talking head on the TV screen claims the opposite. The date of release on my personal card is 2030 - the longest term for 50 people in the detachment. This is the price of belief and freedom of speech in Russia. But our future is worth paying this price. For our children to live in a free and peaceful country, where their rights will be protected and conditions for growth and development will be created, many would give much more. And many have already given it away. Their sacrifice will not be in vain if we do not give up and lose hope. No matter how hopeless the darkness hanging over us may seem, believe: this will pass. The road may be difficult and winding, but we will return home. #этоДима

- Dima Ivanov

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Tver activist sentenced in case of military “fakes” and calls for extremism | OVD-Info

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Cherepovets human rights activist was sentenced to three years in prison in the case of military “fakes” | OVD-Info

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Twitch streamer YokoBovich's detention was extended in the case of the story about Bucha | OVD-Info

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In Tver, the father of five children will be tried in a criminal case for discrediting the army | OVD-Info

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Илья Яшин интервью из колонии: о Навальном и России

Alexey said that if he was killed, it would mean that opponents of the regime are stronger than ever, but now there is just the opposite feeling - the regime is stable and strong. Was Navalny wrong? I don’t think that the arrest and murder of the opposition leader is a sign of the strength of the political regime. Just like Putin’s “competition” with nameless extras in the elections is not a sign of his strength and popularity. Just like arresting people for anti-war likes is not a sign of a high level of support for the war in society. Popular power does not need repression, political assassinations and intimidation of dissent. She is calm and confident. He doesn’t jail his critics, doesn’t beat up protesters, and wins fair, truly competitive elections.  It seems to me that opponents of the Putin regime represent a much more powerful and formidable force than they themselves realize. Power in Russia has been usurped by a criminal group that skillfully manipulates public opinion. Almost every opposition supporter feels oppressive loneliness. He is sure that we are a minority, and Putin’s hordes are around. In fact, there are a lot of supporters of change. It's just that Evil is much better organized. 

Journalist Shura Burtin  wrote this in a column for Meduza  : we all underestimated the evil, that the opposition in exile is weak and helpless, and everyone has to save themselves one by one. Do you not share this pessimism?  Listen, in a barracks under strict detention conditions, I don’t allow myself to despair. And someone sits in safety and comfort, deliberately spreading the bacillus of despondency in the atmosphere. For what? To paralyze the will of the protesters? So that everyone's hands finally give up? Will this make you feel better? Well, God is your judge.  Yes, Evil is aggressive and merciless, it is advancing. But we need not to cover our heads with ashes, but to find ways to resist this Evil by uniting, showing solidarity and helping each other. I have been in prison for almost two years, but I do not feel helpless, lonely or despondent. I see how many people speak the same language with me, share my values, and write me letters with words of support. And in response, in every court appearance, in every text, in every interview, I try to inspire people, motivating them by personal example to resist tyranny.

How should the Russian opposition act without Alexei Navalny? The opposition must grow up and finally get rid of the “ superior-subordinate ” mentality . We are constantly trying to drive everyone into one vertical structure, where the commander gives instructions, tells everyone what to do, and the rest meekly run to carry out. But our real strength lies in horizontal connections, self-organization, collective action and solidarity. Russia is now experiencing one of the most dramatic periods in its modern history. It's time for the opposition to put aside old squabbles and grievances in order to show itself as a responsible force. It is necessary to win the trust of compatriots by consistently defending their interests, both before Putin and before the world community. It is necessary to provide a strong and attractive alternative to tyranny, namely , the image of a free, peaceful and prosperous Russia, where the state does not grind its citizens, but creates conditions for their happy life. And most importantly , you must demonstrate the ability to make this dream a reality. 

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A Misunderstood Adventure

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The defendant in the case of “fake news” from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug was forcibly taken to a psychiatric hospital | OVD-Info

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Inside Putin's brutal Siberian prisons inspired by Stalin | Bill Browder...

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“Coming out of the darkness is painful for the eyes, but there is no option not to come out of the darkness.” After being transferred to the colony, political prisoner Dmitry Ivanov almost immediately found himself in a punishment cell. He sent us a letter and answered Novaya's questions - Novaya Gazeta

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"The regime is adopting Soviet practices." Alexander Skobov about Putin's Russia

Is this a peculiarity of Russians or would any other people behave the same way in such circumstances ? – I think that at the moment we are the ones who are so bad. The same could be said about the Germans during Hitler’s dictatorship - because they voluntarily allowed their consciousness to be poisoned with the ideology of a return to savagery. What fascism is is a person’s desire to throw off cultural and civilizational restrictions developed over centuries and plunge into savagery. In a normal society, starting from industrial, and even more so post-industrial, people reject violence and cruelty; they have already developed an internal barrier. Why are the wars that these countries wage somewhere far away very unpopular in democratic countries? The people are demanding to know what the war is for. And only in a society poisoned by the poison of Nazi ideology, which has allowed its conscience and critical thinking to be turned off, does war not raise questions.

The prerequisites for this were formed in the 1990s. When they hit us over the head with well-known reforms and this led to massive disappointment of society in the ideals that inspired the perestroika democratic movement. The society felt deceived. And it was predisposed to accepting ideas that rejected these values. And if the new ruling elite, which established itself in power with the advent of Putin, had not set a course for clearing out all these complexes - through the gradual infusion of this ideology into the consciousness of Russians through the propaganda machine, it would not have come to this. “Strong President” is just one component of this ideology, but there was a whole construction set of blocks. It was implicated in the fact that law is a deception, legality is a deception, that the strong are always right, that either you are the hunter or you are the prey, and we’ve had enough of being prey, let’s show that we are the strongest. This all gradually flared up in society. Through a very complex system: through mass media, culture, TV series that cultivated violence. It was all a process, gradually softening people’s immunity.

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Soviet dissident Skobov was detained on charges of “justifying terrorism”

An investigator and an escort from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the home of human rights activist Yuliy Rybakov at about 10 p.m. and presented him with a resolution to initiate a criminal case against Alexander Skobov, who was visiting Rybakov at that moment.

Skobova was detained without even allowing her to take her diabetes medication with her. The dissident's life is in danger.

Rybakov emphasized that Skobov did not write anything about the terrorist attack in Crocus, but actively criticized the war in Ukraine.

Alexander Skobov is 66 years old. During the years of the USSR, he was arrested for “anti-Soviet” agitation and placed in a psychiatric hospital as part of punitive psychiatry. In the 2000s, Skobov was a member of the Solidarity movement and the Yabloko party, and after that, in 2024, he was added to the list of “foreign agents.”

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Мой друг Алексей Навальный

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Памяти Алексея Навального/In memory of Alexei Navalny

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Poet and former teacher Alexander Byvshev was sentenced to 7 years in prison for “public calls for terrorism” and “fakes” about the army The reason for the case was posts on social networks. One is from a video of the destroyed village of Velikaya Dymerka in the Kyiv region, and the second is with a quatrain: Rockets are hitting Ukraine. The Kremlin has rejected conscience and morality. Officer's honor, where are you? Where is your Russian Stauffenberg? Byvshev spoke about the reasons for initiating the case in a letter to activist Anastasia Shevchenko. 📌 Klaus von Stauffenberg - Wehrmacht colonel, member of the German Resistance, participant in the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. Because of its mention, the investigation considered the poem a call for terrorism, the violent overthrow of power and the murder of Putin. https://theins.ru/news/270143

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