Presentation in Apertus squat of Agrinion, Greece, 21th of June 2025. Presentation inEnglish, translation to Greek. Since year 2017, Russian special service FSB has moved to destroy the anarchist and anti-fascist movements by opening ”anti-terrorist” criminal cases, and torturing victims to confessions. Repressions gained momentum after Russian invasion against Ukraine in 2022, number of anarchists affinity groups and individuals have been arrested andsentenced to long prison sentences due to pl...
Jul 06, 2025•2 hr
In the conservative neo-feudal world of Putin’s values, such bourgeois values as money and human life are of secondary importance, while land is of first-rate importance. Check out this podcast - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/what-does-putin-want - as a video: https://youtu.be/JOOSM3ZPSKA The original Russian text was published in Avtonom.org, Translated into English for Freedom by Sean Patterson. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARau...
Jul 10, 2024•31 min
A veteran of the anarchist and anti-fascist movement of Ukraine, Maxim Butkevich, has been a prisoner of war of the Russian army for two years. There are several ways to be an anarchist. An anarchist can, for example, be an underground fighter and go into direct conflict with the authorities in every area. But an anarchist can also seek maximum opportunities to influence society through public means, but without trying to take power. This is why many anarchists get into journalism or human right...
Jul 03, 2024•25 min
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles. Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti...
May 29, 2024•1 hr
On April 19, Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist fighting on the side of Ukraine, died in battle near Bakhmut. For almost twenty years, Dima contributed immensely to the anarchist movement in Russia and Ukraine. Dima was, first and foremost, a person of action, not a theoretician. Although, a rather interesting synthesis of ideas was also observable in his practice that deserves broad discussion within the anarchist movement and will now need to be further developed without him. I began to write ...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Last September, some Italian anarchists published a collective letter criticising Ukrainian anarchists for defending themselves and their movement against Russian imperialist aggression. https://ilrovescio.info/2023/09/22/sabotage-the-war-translation-in-various-languages-of-anarchist-call-for-a-mobilization-against-the-war-in-ukraine-en-es-de/ The argument is based on both ethical and factual points. I will start by commenting on the latter, as unfortunately it seems like these comrades have fal...
Feb 10, 2024•35 min
Short presentation about the Tyumen case, from a benefit event in Helsinki 6th of October 2023. Support the fundraising drive of Firefund for the for the lawyers of the defendants in the "Tyumen case". Families and relatives will have to pay for the participation of lawyers in these sessions and they will not be able to cope without you! Less that two weeks are left to reach the fundraising goal, which is still very far: https://www.firefund.net/tumenskoedelo Check out this video as a video: htt...
Dec 22, 2023•23 min
There is a fundraising campaign going on for antiwar prisoners in Russia, and until midnight of tomorrow 3000 euros should be raised, and quite a big amount is still missing: https://www.firefund.net/antiwarprisoners2022 To me it seems that it is not obvious for everyone, how supporting this prisoners is part of the general anti-war effort, and actually a crucial part in bringing down the Russian regime. Supporting prisoners involved in a direct action against war and Russian regime is not just ...
Dec 03, 2022•2 min
Discussing resistance and the anti-authoritarian and anarchist action in Putin's Russia, nationalism in Russia and different reactions within the leftist spectrum A stream based on Interview with Portuguese Mapa - Jornal de Informação Critica -paper, published in issue 35. Support Russian anti-war prisoners: https://www.firefund.net/antiwarprisoners2022 Check out this video - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/anarchist-anti-war-action-and-growing-nationalism-russia - as a video: h...
Nov 12, 2022•31 min
Presentation in Disgraça social center of Lisboa 2nd of July 2022. After Russian invasion of 24th of February, Ukrainian anarchists have mobilised to resist the invasion, and most of the anarchists in Russia have either fleed from the country or joined the anti-war movement, which has yet failed to make a significant impact to stop the war. Meanwhile, there is also lots of confusion about the situation in the left and anarchist movement worldwide, as number of "alternative" news outlets is sprea...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Solidarity with anti-war movement in Russia Presentation in Stockholm anarchist bookfair 5th of June 2022. Thousands of Russians have been resisting against the invasion to Ukraine. During first month of protests, 15 000 people were detained. Actions still continue, but in a smaller scale. At least 28 people are in prison, suspected of direct actions or just speaking out against the war. Military call-up centers have been torched, and railways sabotaged in at least 10 regions of Russia. What are...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Ever since the beginning of the Russian invasion against Ukraine, we have seen statements by anarchists, communists and leftists not from Ukraine, on how Ukrainian anarhists, communists and leftists should not defend themselves against attack of Putin, but lay down their arms and flee instead. Before the anarchist failures in 1920's, 1930's and 1940's, anarchists never made such senseless statements. Check out this video - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/misconceptions-about-imp...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Anarchism has many meanings - it means chaos, quirky individuality and a school of political thought and a social movement, born in 19th century. As a movement, anarchism has both over- and underperformed during its history. Overperformed, because no-one questions importance of individuality. Underpeformed, because promised future without state and capital has failed to materialize. Its classical thinkers are simultaneously completely out of date, and clairvoyants of the present reality and stru...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Anarchism has many meanings - it means chaos, quirky individuality and a school of political thought and a social movement, born in 19th century. As a movement, anarchism has both over- and underperformed during its history. Overperformed, because no-one questions importance of individuality. Underpeformed, because promised future without state and capital has failed to materialize. Its classical thinkers are simultaneously completely out of date, and clairvoyants of the present reality and stru...
May 25, 2022•49 min
In April 2017, a bombing took place in the Saint Petersburg metro. The explosion killed 16 people and injured 103. Russian security services arrested 11 suspects. They were sentenced last December. All of them denied the charges. The Memorial human rights organization sees the trial as questionable. Blog version: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/russia-just-fitting-terrorist-profile-will-put-you-prison Video version: https://youtu.be/xC9f3ZOtbtk
May 25, 2022•12 min
