Interview with anarchists Akihiro Gaevsky-Khanada and Andrey Chepyuk - Part 1

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

Original title: "“You definitely won’t be staying on the sidelines, because nothing’s over yet”: an in-depth interview with anarchists Akihiro Gaevsky-Khanada and Andrey Chepyuk. Part 1."

Russian Authorities Consider Any Anarchist Black Cross Groups an "Undesirable Organization"

From avtonom

At the beginning of 2024, the Russian Ministry of Justice added the American Anarchist Black Cross Federation to its list of “undesirable organizations.” At that time, Anarchist Black Cross Moscow (ABC Moscow) publicly stated that it had no organizational ties to the American federation: ABC groups worldwide are autonomous, and Russian groups have never been part of the American federation.

St. Petersburg Bookstore Manager Fined Over Sale of Anarchist Memoir

From The Moscow Times

A St. Petersburg court on Monday fined the manager of the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya 20,000 rubles ($254) for selling a copy of a jailed Belarusian anarchist’s memoir.

Fundraising for the defense of anarchist Ruslan Sidiki

On May 23, anarchist Ruslan Sidiki was sentenced to a record-breaking 29 years in prison. He received this sentence for two acts of sabotage against military infrastructure: blowing up a railway track and carrying out a drone attack on an airfield. Ruslan explained his actions as an attempt to hinder attacks on Ukraine.

"I couldn’t watch people die in silence" The story of Alexey Rozhkov

On 11 March 2022, at around 5am, Alexey Rozhkov left his house in the city of Beryozovsky in the Urals. He took three bottles of beer that he had made into Molotov cocktails, and went to the local military recruitment office.

New book about founding of Anarchist Black Cross

From Anarchist Black Cross Federation
April 23, 2025

From Cop City to the Dakota pipelines and Jane’s Revenge to numerous struggles worldwide, anarchist organizers are relentlessly targeted by the state today as they have been for over a century. Shadows in the Struggle for Equality is the firsthand account of Boris Yelensky, an activist of the Anarchist Red Cross (later the Anarchist Black Cross), during the Russian revolutionary movement from 1905 through 1917, and the subsequent Leninist/Stalinist repression.

Anarchist Partisan Ruslan Siddiqi Transferred to "Matrosskaya Tishina"

From Avtonom

This was revealed during session at the 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow 9th of April, where Ruslan’s pre-trial detention was extended for another six months.The court also announced the date of the first substantive hearing — it will take place on April 15 at 11:00 AM, in the same court.

‘You could call me a partisan.’ Ruslan Siddiqi recounts his anti-war actions

A Russian and Italian citizen, an electrician from [the Russian city of] Ryazan, an industrial tourist, a bike traveller, an anarchist and a partisan – all this can be said about 36-year-old Ruslan Siddiqi. In the summer of 2023, he dispatched four drones with explosives to attack the Diaghilev military airfield near Ryazan, and in the autumn, he decided to act “from the ground” – damaging railway lines with two bombs and derailing 19 freight train wagons. Siddiqi is currently awaiting trial in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre, with the prospect of a life sentence hanging over him.

Chronicle of repressions against anarchists and anti-fascists in 2024

From Anarchist Black Cross Belarus

The main “novelty” of the past year was mass repressions against relatives of serving and released political prisoners. On January 23, mass searches and detentions of relatives took place in Belarus, and phones were taken away from the detainees for inspection.

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