#Alexander Kolchenko

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Vadim Lurie: Alexander Kolchenko's Birthday Party

Vadim Lurie: Alexander Kolchenko’s Birthday Party

Vadim F. Lurie Facebook December 2, 2019

I spent my last evening in Kyiv at a concert thrown by anarchist punks in honor of Alexander Kolchenko‘s birthday. I congratulated him, took a few pictures, listened to the music, and socialized.

Thanks to Vadim Lurie for his permission to publish his photos here. Translated by the Russian Reader

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Russian court jails Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov and activist Kolchenko

A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and the Anarchist activist Alexander Kolchenko to 20 or 10 years in prison due to charges of plotting terror attacks in Crimea. Sentsov, who is best known for his 2011 film Gamer, and Kolchenko were arrested in their homeland, the Ukrainian Crimea peninsula shortly after it was annexed by Russia last year. Both actively supported the protests during Ukraine's Maidan revolution. Human Rights organizations criticized the trial, Amnesty International called the ruling “a blatant injustice after a patently unfair trial marred by credible allegations of torture". Sentsov, who was according Russian authorities involved in two attempted Right Sector arson attacks in the city of Simferopol, said that he was beaten in jail for 24 hours in an attempt to force a confession. Also Kolchenko reported similar things and one of the major witnesses against them, Henadiy Afanasiev, retraced his testimony as given under torture. After the verdict was read out, both men sang the Ukrainian National Anthem.

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They Are Who They Are, Not Somebody Else

They Are Who They Are, Not Somebody Else

“Tomorrow, the whole world will write about this. I am proud of my profession. #FreeIvanGolunov…” Vedomosti.ru: Vedomosti, Kommersant, and RBC will for the first time…” Screenshot of someone’s social media page by Ayder Muzhdabaev. Courtesy of Ayder Muzhadabaev

Ayder Muzhdabaev Facebook June 9, 2019

Russia’s “liberal opposition journalists” have been vying to praise each other as they celebrate a…

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"[Oleg Sentsov] is quite disappointed very little attention has been paid to the other political prisoners. He thinks that if he alone were released, it would be a complete failure." "Oleg has been on hunger strike for 52 days and 20 hours." "He Has Lost Fifteen Kilos during the Hunger Strike": Oleg Sentsov's Cousin Visits Filmmaker in Prison…

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23 Days (#SaveOlegSentsov) Rally in support of Oleg Sentsov in Paris. Photo courtesy of Krym.Realii and Mediazona Mediazona journalist Yegor Skovoroda writes that Ukrainian political prisoner and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been on hunger strike in a Russian penal colony for 23 days.

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Comrade to Comrade Crimean political prisoners Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko during their so-called trial by a Russian kangaroo court.

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Journalist Vladislav Ryazantsev Assaulted in Rostov-on-Don Anton Naumlyuk January 10, 2016 Facebook Vladislav Ryazantsev has been assaulted in Rostov-on-Don. Vlad and I covered the entire…

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Maria Kuvshinova: What Sentsov Could Die For What Sentsov Could Die For Maria Kuvshinova Colta.Ru May 25, 2018 Oleg Sentsov. Photo by Sergei Pivovarov.

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Police Show Up to Evening in Support of Political Prisoners Grani.ru March 30, 2016

Police showed up at the Moscow cafe Dozhd-Mazhor, where an evening in support of political prisoners had been scheduled. Our correspondent reported that around fifteen officers entered the space, inspected it, and then went outside to the entrance and proceeded to ID everyone leaving the cafe.

Later, police tried…

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Contemporary Art Killed My Dog

Contemporary Art Killed My Dog

In terms of a number of issues and events you have opposed Putin’s policies, and now you are at the Moscow Biennale [of Contemporary Art] at the VDNKh, a venue where the order of things is supposed to be questioned [sic]. Do you believe that here, in the current political situation, there can be a place for real criticism that is both anti-Putinist and anti-capitalist?

Yanis Varoufakis,…

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Alexander Kolchenko and Oleg Sentsov Are Hostages

Alexander Kolchenko and Oleg Sentsov Are Hostages

On Kolchenko and Sentsov’s Sentences August 26, 2015 www.shiitman.ninja

Alexander Kolchenko and Oleg Sentsov

It is important to realize that the sentences that Kolchenko and Sentsov received are a fiction.

No one actually takes the charges against them seriously.

Even the most loyal Putinists do not take the charges seriously. What terrorism? What does the Right Sector have to do with any of this?

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Askold Kurov: The Importance of Solidarity

Askold Kurov: The Importance of Solidarity

Askold Kurov, filmmaker:

I have been shooting the film Release Oleg Sentsovfor over a year, since Oleg was brought to Lefortovo Remand Prison in Moscow, and the first hearings in his case were held. The case is an unbelievable absurdity, an absolutely Kafkaesque story. I hope that the film will draw attention to these terrible events. Unfortunately, however, hopes for a favorable outcome, for…