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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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Alexander Skobov: Behind Bars in the USSR and Putin’s Russia

David Frenkel tells the story of Alexander Skobov, 67, a veteran Soviet dissident who finds himself back behind bars for speaking out against Russia's war against Ukraine.

The number of Russians who find themselves behind bars for opposing the authorities who launched the war with Ukraine grows by the day. There are hundreds of political prisoners in the country. We try to remind our readers about these people every chance we get. Today, Mediazona’s David Frenkel tells the story of Alexander Skobov, 67, a historian from St Petersburg, a defendant in the last…

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Some very "smart" people: russia is not a nazi country!

Those russians, who are being thrown to prisons for nothing: russia is a nazi country.

"Glory to Ukraine, death to the russian invaders, death to the murderer Putin!" Alexander Skobov shouted on the way to the hall.

Already in the courtroom, he said:

“I will not stand up in front of this judge. I have absolutely no respect for this court. He serves not the law but the Nazi dictatorship of Putin. You can remove me from the hall even now, I see no point in further presence at your booth. The only point of my presence was to spit in the face of this court: I have already done that.”

Skobov is accused of “justifying terrorism” because of his post about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge.

For this, Alexander faces up to 7 years in prison.

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Soviet Dissident Skobov Detained for ‘Justifying Terrorism’ – Reports Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov has been detained for “justifying terrorism” in social media posts about last month’s deadly concert attack outside Moscow, the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reported Wednesday. Skobov, 66, was convicted twice starting in the late 1970s and subjected to punitive psychiatry for “anti-Soviet propaganda.” Read more | Subscribe to our channel

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Боятся, гадёныши. Почему власти РФ скрывают правду от новых поколений об усатой твари? (They are afraid, bastards. Why are the Russian authorities hiding the truth from new generations about the mustachioed monster?)

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Недаром советские вожди до самой перестройки тщательнейшим образом скрывали эти цифры от общества. По материалу Александра Скобова.(It isn’t surprising that the Soviet leaders, until perestroika itself, carefully concealed these figures from society. Based on the material by Alexander Skobov.)

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Reporters Without Borders uses Minecraft to sneak censored works across borders

Censorship takes many forms, but even the most restrictive countries can’t block every single path for information they’d rather not get in (or out). Reporters Without Borders has identified a surprising new platform for hosting banned content: Minecraft.

The organization, collaborating with reporters, Minecraft pros, and of course a creative agency, has produced an enormous in-game “Uncensored Library” that hosts a variety of suppressed reportage from places like like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Vietnam.

The structure is a giant neo-classical complex hosted on its own server, which Minecraft players can access freely by pointing their game towards “visit.uncensoredlibrary.com” in the server browser.

The library has a handful of wings, each dedicated to a different country, and each with a series of articles banned in those places, or their authors chased out or even killed. They’re presented in plain text inside Minecraft’s craftable books — not exactly the easiest way to take in these important essays and reports, but better than nothing.

There are documents from Nguyen Van Dai in Vietnam, Mada Masr in Egypt, Javier Valdez in Mexico, Alexander Skobov in Russia, and arguably the most high-profile casualty to murderous, oppressive regimes in recent history, Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia. There are only a handful of recent articles at present, but there are also numerous documents describing the state of press freedom and oppression in 180 countries — the RSF Freedom Index.

Of course, this is not secure and private like an end-to-end encrypted chat group. A user accessing the library map might have their nickname, tied to a Minecraft account, be visible to other users, and their logs would reflect the visit. It seems unlikely Microsoft would give up that information to a curious government, but there is a certain risk involved. Fortunately private duplicate servers can be and are already being established, as well as local copies.

As it stands, the Uncensored Library stands more as a proof of concept that information need not be delivered by traditional means in order to have a potential impact. Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world, and can be used as an informational and promotional platform as well as just a fun place to hang out and build stuff. What other ways exist to get around the restrictions of governments that would rather their citizens not know the truth?

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Вот почему мы коммунисты

Вот почему мы коммунисты

Alexander Skobov

  Вся либеральная публика обсуждает и осуждает Дмитрия Быкова за ностальгию по совку. И недоумевает, что он нашел модернистского в советском проекте. И чем он более модернистский, чем гилеровский проект. И уже кучу всего понаписала, доказывая, что по многим параметрам советский проект был куда архаичнее гитлеровского.

А все просто. И я вам скажу, почему советский проект…

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Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov, detained by Putin's police on charges of justifying terrorism, has been arrested. In court, he shouted: “Glory to Ukraine, death to the murderer Putin.” Finding himself in the judicial “aquarium,” Skobov said: “Glory to Ukraine, death to the murderer Putin. I see no point in participating in this farce, and the only reason for participating in this trial is to spit in the face of the court.” Alexander Skobov is, of course, a true hero. The seriously ill old man continued to tell the truth during this dark time. And he waited for darkness to come to his doorstep. I was waiting for arrest. He knew that he could not be a partisan due to his age and poor health. Cannot be a warrior of volunteer units. He understood that he had the only weapon - his voice. And so that his voice would be louder, he waited for arrest. With samurai courage. If the nation still has honor and conscience, then this honor and conscience is called “Alexander Skobov”. @rospartizan

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New Trumped-Up Criminal Charges Against Soviet Dissident and Russian Opposition Activist Alexander Skobov

Alexander Skobov. Photo courtesy of V. Izotov/Deutsche Welle A new criminal case, on charges of “involvement in a terrorist community,” has been opened against former Soviet dissident and Russian political journalist Alexander Skobov, who has been detained for over a month on charges of “condoning terrorism.” This news was reported on Saturday, 18 May, on Skobov’s official Facebook account by…

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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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Alexander Skobov: Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact 3.0

Alexander Skobov: Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact 3.0

Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact 3.0 Alexander Skobov Kasparov.ru December 18, 2021 Major props to Sergei Parkhomenko for bothering to read the preamble to the Kremlin’s proposed treaty with the United States. As he quite rightly pointed out, no one reads the preamble, because the preamble is usually just high-minded blah-blah-blah. You have to look at the specific points and clauses in the main text. In…

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Post-Election

“Let’s defend our victory!” A poster from the campaign of Mikhail Lobanov, who ran for a seat in the Russian parliament in Sunday’s elections, urging voters to gather at the Indira Gandhi monument in Moscow at 7 p.m. on September 23 to discuss the campaign’s plans for contesting the attempt by the authorities to tilt the election in favor of the ruling party’s candidate by “stuffing the ballot…

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Byudzhetniki

Byudzhetniki (state sector employees), as imagined by Yandex Zen. This image illustrates a 2019 op-ed piece claiming that 51.8% of all workers in Russia are state sector employees or byudzhetniki (and bemoaning that fact because, allegedly, it lowers GDP). Alexander Skobov | Facebook | September 18, 2021 I am terribly annoyed by the word byudzhetniki [state sector employees], when it is used in…

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When the Night Lanterns Sway

When the Night Lanterns Sway

“When the Night Lanterns Sway”: It’s Useless to Try and Beat the State on Its Own “Legal Turf” Alexander Skobov Kasparov.ru February 13, 2021 On February 9, Leonid Volkov, head of Navalny’s network of local teams, announced a flash mob for February 14, Valentine’s Day: residents of large cities should go into their courtyards at 8 p.m. and turn on their mobile phone flashlights. This is an…

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The Helmets Come Off

The Helmets Come Off

Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko, citing this video, reports that around forty (40) people have been detained for no apparent reason today [Sunday, January 24, 2021] on Nevsky Prospekt, Petersburg’s main drag. All of the detainees have been taken to the fifth police precinct, near the intersection of Ligovsky Prospekt and the Obvodny Canal—that is, a fair distance from the Nevsky. ||…