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Activist Asylum Seeker Commits Suicide Amid Fears of Deportation Back to Russia

An activist with the Other Russia opposition movement has committed suicide in the Netherlands — apparently after he was designated for deportation to Russia. Alexander Dolmatov killed himself last night in a Rotterdam refugee center, his friend Denis Solopov told The Moscow Times Thursday. He added that he had not been able to get in contact with Dolmatov for some days and that it was unclear why […]

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Russia: Moscow court extends three anti-fascists’ arrest by three months

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On December 14, 2012, Moscow’s Tagansky district court has extended arrest for three anti-fascists who were detained on suspicion of participation in a brawl at Moscow’s Vozdukh club in December 2011. Alexei Olesinov, Alexei Sutuga and Alen Volikov will be kept in pre-trial detention until March 2013, Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported. Olesinov was kept in

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Mikalai Dziadok sent to a high security prison

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The court made a decision to toughen the imprisonment conditions for the political prisoner. Aliaksandr Dziadok, the father of the political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok told the charter97.org web-site about that: “The court decided to send my son to a closed type prison, but I do not know the circumstances”. We would remind that the reason

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Police search Kirov anti-fascists’ homes in trumped-up case

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At six in the morning of November 27, a series of searches at homes of eight members of anarchist group Autonomous Actions were carried out in the Russian city of Kirov by police officers who were accompanied by operatives of the anti-extremism E Centre. Officers seized all computer equipment, such as system units and printers,

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Moscow anti-fascist may become permanently disabled in pre-trial detention

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Health condition of anti-fascist Alexei Olesinov, who is held at Moscow’s Medvedkovo pre-trial detention centre as a suspect in the “Moscow antifa case” for allegedly participating in a brawl, has sharply deteriorated. Independent expert evaluation, conducted by the Pavlov State Medical University in St Petersburg, confirmed that Olesinov risks becoming permanently disabled. However, the pre-trial

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