#Mikhail Svetov

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Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on “rehabilitating nazism” against libertarian politician and leader of the Civil Society movement Mikhail Svetov, sources told state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS.

According to RIA Novosti, the basis of the case was a Svetov performing a song about early-20th-century Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera on his Telegram channel.

Independent publication Ostorozhno, Novosti says that Svetov performed and posted the song “Ah, Bandera, Ukrainian apostle!” in September 2021. In an interview with the publication, Svetov suggested that the current case against him arose after Vladislav Pozdnyakov, the leader of the unofficial Male State nationalist movement in Russia, denounced him. 

“Two years ago, Pozdnyakov’s supporters wrote a series of denunciations about a voice message where I sang Orest Lyuty’s song about Bandera. Today, the Investigative Committee has decided to open a criminal case against me on the basis of those denunciations. I’m used to the fact that in Russia, you don’t need a reason to open a criminal case, and the basis can be whatever suits [the authorities]. But this surprised even me. I feel like I’ve stumbled into the premier league of enemies of the Putin regime,” said Svetov.

Russia’s Justice Ministry declared Svetov a “foreign agent” in November 2022. He left Russia in 2021.

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I am going to unalive that pedo Mikhail Svetov with my bare hands.

No fucking way. THIS is the Russian libertarian flag? 😭

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Reading the Wikipedia page of the Russian libertarian who got in trouble for being a pedo and it’s an absolute fucking banger

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Leonid Volkov: Hell in a Handbasket

Leonid Volkov: Hell in a Handbasket

Leonid Volkov Facebook July 30, 2019

Everything has gone to hell in a handbasket.

I cannot recall such a concentration of news.

In the last thirty minutes:

The authorities disqualified Sergei Tsukasov in Moscow’s 14th Borough. He won the primaries held there by local activists, collected the necessary number of signatures, and was registered to run as a candidate, apparently because he is not…

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Tweet from Mikhail Svetov (@msvetov)

Mikhail Svetov (@msvetov) Tweeted:

Сумасшедшее видео. Работники белорусского избирательного участка бегут из окон с мешками бюллетеней. Слишком много людей пришло проголосовать за Тихановскую. https://t.co/xoywyJVUYm https://twitter.com/msvetov/status/1292404339965911041?s=20

Kreatív módon szabadulnak meg az ellenzéki szavatatoktól.

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Шаверма с котом. pic.twitter.com/HIWz1fM4NZ

— Mikhail Svetov (@msvetov) March 26, 2020

from Twitter https://twitter.com/wolkovitzky March 27, 2020 at 04:38PM via IFTTT

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Putin critic Navalny, following illness, suspects he may have been poisoned

The Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has spoken out for the first time about his hospitalization this week, writing that he suspects he may have been poisoned.

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Navalny was taken to the hospital on Sunday after suffering what authorities told his colleagues was a “severe allergic reaction” in a Moscow jail, where he is serving a 30-day sentence for organizing a protest against the government.

He was given the all-clear by hospital doctors after his symptoms responded to treatment, and was sent back to jail the next day over the strenuous objections of his personal doctor who has said she believes he was poisoned.

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A photo of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sitting on a hospital bed in Moscow, was posted to his website, July 29, 2019. His lawyer says he might have been poisoned while in jail.

Writing in his blog late Monday night, Navalny described what happened to him and said he agreed it was possible he had become the latest in a series of Kremlin opponents to be poisoned over the years.

His symptoms began on Saturday, he wrote, when his cellmates noticed his neck was red and he felt unwell throughout the day. In the middle of the night he woke up with his “head, ears and neck burning.”

“I felt as though my head had been rubbed with fiberglass,” Navalny wrote. The next day, he said, his eye-lids were “the size of ping-pong balls.”

“Honestly speaking,” Navalny wrote, “the thought came to my head: ‘Could they have poisoned me?’”

After he was given steroids in the hospital, the swelling subsided, leaving Navalny looking, in his words, “like a person who’s been drinking solidly for two months.”

Navalny’s illness comes amid a crackdown against the anti-Kremlin opposition, which saw Russian police arrest almost 1,400 people at a protest last Saturday.

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Law enforcement officers clash with demonstrators during a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital’s regional parliament, in Moscow, July 27, 2019.

In his blog post, Navalny allowed that it was still possible he had suffered a strange allergy — but that there were many reasons to be suspicious. He had never suffered allergies in his life, he wrote, and he had not changed anything in his diet or routine.

Navalny, who is regularly jailed on protest charges, has spent many months in jails in recent years, and had even lived in the same cell on the same cot during another short detention two weeks earlier. His bedding was brought from home and none of his five cellmates had shown symptoms, he said.

There was a simple way to determine if there had been foul play, Navalny wrote: Review the security camera footage in his cell to see if anyone other than the detention center staff had entered it while he wasn’t present. He said he ruled out his guards’ involvement, since they were “shocked more” than him by his appearance.

Navalny’s doctor, Anastasia Vasilyeva, has said she is certain Navalny was poisoned with an “unknown chemical agent.”

Navalny has been diagnosed with “contact dermatitis,” a relatively common rash provoked by irritants, but doctors have not established what caused it. Vasilyeva told reporters on Monday she believes whoever poisoned him wanted “to scare him.”

Navalny’s possible poisoning comes at a time of heightened activity among the opposition. The protest last Saturday was called by Navalny and other activists after authorities barred opposition candidates from taking part in the Moscow city council election this September.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) and Chief Commander of Russian Navy Nikolai Yevmenov watch the Navy Day Parade on July 28, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The Kremlin has been demonstrating an increased intolerance for political opposition among Moscow’s liberal society, which has held relatively large demonstrations over the past two weekends. The last one was met with force by police, who rounded up hundreds of peaceful demonstrators and beat some with batons. Since then, Moscow courts have fined or given short jail sentences to hundreds of those arrested in rolling trials.

The opposition has called for another demonstration in Moscow this Saturday. It has rejected a request by the mayor’s office to hold the protest in a less central location, setting the stage for more arrests and possible clashes.

Many of the opposition’s key leaders have been jailed in the past week, either before or after Saturday’s protest. Mikhail Svetov, head of the Libertarian Party, was arrested on Tuesday outside the Moscow government’s offices immediately after he left negotiations on the protest site there, his party colleagues said.

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RUSSIALINK: "'Point of No Return': Russia's Libertarians Lead Protest Against 'Sovereign Internet'; A draft law aimed at creating an internet that can be cut off from the rest of the world's has raised fears that Russia could turn into the next North Korea." - Moscow Times

RUSSIALINK: “‘Point of No Return’: Russia’s Libertarians Lead Protest Against ‘Sovereign Internet’; A draft law aimed at creating an internet that can be cut off from the rest of the world’s has raised fears that Russia could turn into the next North Korea.” – Moscow Times

(Moscow Times – Evan Gershkovich – March 10, 2019 – themoscowtimes.com/2019/03/10/point-of-no-return-russias-libertarians-lead-protest-against-sovereign-internet-a64758)

It was Saturday afternoon and Mikhail Svetov was buzzing with nervous energy. Just 24 hours later, the member of Russia’s Libertarian Party would be leading a protest against a draft bill aimed at creating a so-called sovereign…

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Друзья, 30 апреля в 14:00 на Сахарова стартует митинг против роскомнадзора и блокировки телеграма. Государство развязало против нас войну. Если мы не сможем защитить интернет, мы навсегда потеряем шанс на прекрасное будущее. Обязательно выходите https://t.co/hngxaubMTG pic.twitter.com/juQdmtBSMW

— Mikhail Svetov (@msvetov) April 26, 2018

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What Goes Around Comes Around

What Goes Around Comes Around

Head of Supreme Court Accused of Persecuting Dissidents during Soviet Times  He convicted human rights activist Felix Svetov, whose daughter Zoya Svetova had her apartment searched by the FSB yesterday Alexei Obukhov Moskovsky Komsomolets March 1, 2017

Memorial has published documents relating to the case of journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetova’s father, Felix Svetov, who was convicted…