Bilan
25th January 2009, 01:29
20th of January in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Grozniy various actions were organized to commemorate Stas Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova, murdered 19th of January. At noon around 400 people gathered at the place of murder to leave flowers. Police and several buses of OMON riot police were present at the spot, but eventually they did not intervene.
Moscow anarchists decided, that candles and flowers are not enough of a reaction against such an outrageous murder, thus they decided to organise an illegal demonstration.
First gathering place was leaked to police, and it was surrounded by a tight cordon of OMON. Eventually gathering place was moved to Bolshoy theater, but police got there as well, around 7:30 PM they attacked peaceful people. Around 15 people got arrested, few more were arrested at the metro station "Okhotniy Ryad", rest of the people moved to exit of metro Novokuznetskaya.
From there, march was launched 8:20 PM, and it blockaded Pyatnitskaya street. March went to Obvodnaya canal proceeded by embankment, from there demonstration moved to Bolshaya Ordynka street, blocking it.
People scanned "Fascists murder, authorities are covering!", "We do not forget, we do not forgive", "Our motherland is the whole humanity", there were banners "No to impunity" and "Fascist murder, authorities are covering". Trash containers were thrown to street to stop traffic. In end of the march, few bank windows and windows of McDonald's at metro Tretyakovskaya were trashed. Altogether around 200 people joined demonstration.
During the action, around 50 people altogether got arrested, good part of them random passers by, but it seems everyone got released without charges during the same evening.
Text of the leaflet is available in Russian in http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2190, but it could not be distributed in action as whole printout got confiscated before it got started.
In St. Petersburg, around 100 people gathered at Ligovskiy street 7 PM. This was openly announced action and police attempted to stop it, however people managed to launch march towards Marsova fields, where is a memorial to victims of white terror. There a small meeting was organised.
There was also a rather strange demonstration in Chechnya. This was officially sanctioned by the authorities, and among human rights organizations there were such strange entities such as "Fan Club of Ramzan Kadyrov". It was reported, that more than 1000 people joined demonstration. Stas and Nastya were definitely no fans of current totalitarian regime in Chechnya, however Stas was defending interests of relatives of victims in two most prominent Russian war crimes courts. Whereas current Chechen regime is not too keen to punish their own power structures for human rights violations, they pursue course of prosecuting non-Chechen officials of Russian army for reasons of public relations, and also to erase from the republic all federal structures not directly subordinate to the current regime.
Russian version (with photos): http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2190
More photo: http://anatrrra.livejournal.com/106028.html
http://sterm-fuck.livejournal.com/115603.html
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21476/index.php
19.01.2009 | Anastasia "Skat" Baburova, 30.11.1983-19.01.2009
Our friend and comrade Skat was murdered today in Moscow, shot to head by an assassin.
Assassin was not after her - he was after advocate Stanislav Markelov, another good friend and comrade. We do not know who was there to kill Stas - it could be associates of some war criminals he put to prison, it could be connected to some corporate crimes, it could be Nazis, many of whom Stas put to prison as well. List of achievements of Stas is so long, that it will take a couple of days to gather all of them to a necrology - and list of his enemies is even longer. But we know for sure, that Nastya had a bad luck of being in a wrong place in wrong time. Assassin shot her to head as well, either to eliminate a witness, or in order to escape - some witnesses have stated that Nastya attempted to arrest assassin. Stas died in place, Nastya died in hospital few hours afterwards.
Nastya was studying in evening line of journalist faculty of Moscow State University. She worked a while in "Izvestiya", but left and worked as a freelancer.
During last few months she wrote to critical paper "Novaya Gazeta", mostly about far right.
Nastya was an anarchist and was involved in numerous activist projects. She was involved in anti-repression issues, such as solidarity actions in Moscow for repressed French activists Ivan and Bruno, and later last year in solidarity work for Tarnac 9. Last year she was actively involved in attempts to defense a dormitory in Yasniy Passage, inhabited by refugees from conflict regions of Caucasus, against violent takeover of the premises by UFSIN (Administration of Federal Service for Execution of Punishment, that is Russian federal prison administration). Nastya was arrested in that action. Nastya also joined protest camp of Rainbow Keepers last summer in Sasovo of Ryazan region, and campaign against police brutality in spring of 2008. She also traveled to European social forum in Malmo in September 2008. She was co-organising alternative media section in Russian conference Anticapitalism-2008. Nastya also helped in work with latest issue #30 of Avtonom-journal. She joined
Autonomous Action a day before she got murdered. Inside the movement, Nastya got well along with everyone.
Nastya was into physical sports such as jumping with a parachute and she was also well trained in martial arts. She never went around unarmed, but her knife was not a match against a gun.
Nastya was a positive person of exceptional spirit. She will be missed by parents, friends and comrades from all around Russia and Ukraine. She was from Sevastopol, and is likely to be buried there.
She had a blog in http://file-028.livejournal.com/
(from the AAN-Global network)
Moscow anarchists decided, that candles and flowers are not enough of a reaction against such an outrageous murder, thus they decided to organise an illegal demonstration.
First gathering place was leaked to police, and it was surrounded by a tight cordon of OMON. Eventually gathering place was moved to Bolshoy theater, but police got there as well, around 7:30 PM they attacked peaceful people. Around 15 people got arrested, few more were arrested at the metro station "Okhotniy Ryad", rest of the people moved to exit of metro Novokuznetskaya.
From there, march was launched 8:20 PM, and it blockaded Pyatnitskaya street. March went to Obvodnaya canal proceeded by embankment, from there demonstration moved to Bolshaya Ordynka street, blocking it.
People scanned "Fascists murder, authorities are covering!", "We do not forget, we do not forgive", "Our motherland is the whole humanity", there were banners "No to impunity" and "Fascist murder, authorities are covering". Trash containers were thrown to street to stop traffic. In end of the march, few bank windows and windows of McDonald's at metro Tretyakovskaya were trashed. Altogether around 200 people joined demonstration.
During the action, around 50 people altogether got arrested, good part of them random passers by, but it seems everyone got released without charges during the same evening.
Text of the leaflet is available in Russian in http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2190, but it could not be distributed in action as whole printout got confiscated before it got started.
In St. Petersburg, around 100 people gathered at Ligovskiy street 7 PM. This was openly announced action and police attempted to stop it, however people managed to launch march towards Marsova fields, where is a memorial to victims of white terror. There a small meeting was organised.
There was also a rather strange demonstration in Chechnya. This was officially sanctioned by the authorities, and among human rights organizations there were such strange entities such as "Fan Club of Ramzan Kadyrov". It was reported, that more than 1000 people joined demonstration. Stas and Nastya were definitely no fans of current totalitarian regime in Chechnya, however Stas was defending interests of relatives of victims in two most prominent Russian war crimes courts. Whereas current Chechen regime is not too keen to punish their own power structures for human rights violations, they pursue course of prosecuting non-Chechen officials of Russian army for reasons of public relations, and also to erase from the republic all federal structures not directly subordinate to the current regime.
Russian version (with photos): http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2190
More photo: http://anatrrra.livejournal.com/106028.html
http://sterm-fuck.livejournal.com/115603.html
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21476/index.php
19.01.2009 | Anastasia "Skat" Baburova, 30.11.1983-19.01.2009
Our friend and comrade Skat was murdered today in Moscow, shot to head by an assassin.
Assassin was not after her - he was after advocate Stanislav Markelov, another good friend and comrade. We do not know who was there to kill Stas - it could be associates of some war criminals he put to prison, it could be connected to some corporate crimes, it could be Nazis, many of whom Stas put to prison as well. List of achievements of Stas is so long, that it will take a couple of days to gather all of them to a necrology - and list of his enemies is even longer. But we know for sure, that Nastya had a bad luck of being in a wrong place in wrong time. Assassin shot her to head as well, either to eliminate a witness, or in order to escape - some witnesses have stated that Nastya attempted to arrest assassin. Stas died in place, Nastya died in hospital few hours afterwards.
Nastya was studying in evening line of journalist faculty of Moscow State University. She worked a while in "Izvestiya", but left and worked as a freelancer.
During last few months she wrote to critical paper "Novaya Gazeta", mostly about far right.
Nastya was an anarchist and was involved in numerous activist projects. She was involved in anti-repression issues, such as solidarity actions in Moscow for repressed French activists Ivan and Bruno, and later last year in solidarity work for Tarnac 9. Last year she was actively involved in attempts to defense a dormitory in Yasniy Passage, inhabited by refugees from conflict regions of Caucasus, against violent takeover of the premises by UFSIN (Administration of Federal Service for Execution of Punishment, that is Russian federal prison administration). Nastya was arrested in that action. Nastya also joined protest camp of Rainbow Keepers last summer in Sasovo of Ryazan region, and campaign against police brutality in spring of 2008. She also traveled to European social forum in Malmo in September 2008. She was co-organising alternative media section in Russian conference Anticapitalism-2008. Nastya also helped in work with latest issue #30 of Avtonom-journal. She joined
Autonomous Action a day before she got murdered. Inside the movement, Nastya got well along with everyone.
Nastya was into physical sports such as jumping with a parachute and she was also well trained in martial arts. She never went around unarmed, but her knife was not a match against a gun.
Nastya was a positive person of exceptional spirit. She will be missed by parents, friends and comrades from all around Russia and Ukraine. She was from Sevastopol, and is likely to be buried there.
She had a blog in http://file-028.livejournal.com/
(from the AAN-Global network)