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Latest News: The prison sentence against Larisa Schiptsova has been overturned by a higher court.
July: Krasnodar Anarchists Sentenced
More News from Russia - Back to the OGB Homepage
OTHER NEWS: The last mailradek told about the arrest of the Anti-nuclear campaign director Vladimir Slivyak. It's known, the militioners who refused to call their names were forcing him to tell where is Jacov Kochkarev, who was a defense's witness during the "Krasnodar case". Kochkarev (who was at Slivyak's when the latter got arrested) was taken the same day. He's still imprisoned and is accused in transporting drugs. We definitely know, he didn't have any, and suppose the cops gave him the same marijuana package which they promised to "find" in Slivyak's bag. FSB which is investigating the latest explosions at Moscow was, probably, trying to work out several versions, so Pimenov first, and than Slivyak and Kochkarev were the victims of such "work". This all makes even the news about the "real" Tchetchen terrorsists successfully "found" very doubtful.
The Russian Helsinki group of human rights defense is gonna pay for the Kochkarev's lawyer's work. Slivyak plans to provoke a case against the militioners who tried to arrest him.
Dmitrii Pimenov and Avdei Ter-Oganyan are in Prague, they're going to look
for a political asyl. The personal site of Dmitrii Pimenov has been deleted
by the personal order of internet provider
Source: Mailradek
UPDATE: Jacov Kochkarev has been sentenced to 6 months in high secrurity prison. More details will follow.
I also had many and not always pleasant contacts with the media. At first I
didn't want that, but FSB continued to badger my family even after the end
of the trial: threatening my mother and step-father, searching my relatives,
trying to falsely charge my husband Ilya Romanov, interrogating and tracing
my lawyer Markelov. At the same time, just as I expected, the secret police
began searching through the leftist radicals. I only established contacts
with the media because these rascals are like roaches hiding in their holes
in the light, and i wanted to denounce FSB, their ways and also to show that
there's something in the world that they cannot either crush or suppress.
Moreover, i openly proclaimed my anarcho-communist ideas. In the freedom,
together with other materials about the
The "just and democratic" result was my 4 years sentence, and 3 years for
Nepshikuyev. By the way, here's a good lesson for all the future
"nepshikuyevs" actively cooperating with court. What about me, i'm pretty
fed up with my relatives' tears and liberal-democratic snivel. I have to
survive both physically and morally, thus fighting on.
Then i had to spend some hours in the escort truck outside the jailhouse -
the prison authorities didn't want me, because, according to the law, they
cannot take pregnant women after 28 weeks (i had 32 at the moment). The
escort was already going to take me to 1st department, and then to
Ust-Labinsk to Camp 3. I liked that, for i couldn't even think of returning
to the jailhouse. But suddenly some important Krasnodarian man - colonel
Afanasiev - called and by personal order made the doctors take me to the
temporary investigation cell, directly violating the law. So now I'm writing
from the jailhouse infirmary. At first I had some confrontation with the
cell inspector, but then it all settled up in a few days - I try not to
quarrel, but neither I let oppress me. Now i'm occupying a good place - the
lower berth near the table. My comrades had aided by the third day, so i'm
quite accustomed now. Our cell is a transit one, so we don't have much time
to sleep, we receive and send jail-mail: letters and parcels between cells
and buildings. There's a crazy woman in our cell, she's in a constant
hysterics, she's urinating uncontrollably and stays awake for two days in a
row. We all have trouble with her. Most of my cellmates are having their
second sentence, so we're keeping the cell in order; there are no lesbians,
we guard the cell and contribute our belongings to the common stock. The
life is more free, compared to FSB penitentiaries - food is easy to get, we
communicate through the personnel (prisoners who perform small services for
keeping the jailhouse). The men support us a little by sending tea,
cigarettes and candies. But at the same time i see people disintegrating of
cancer, gangrene, sepsis. There are no remedies, and the local doctors can't
even take a blood sample. Outing walks are 20-30 minutes long, the people
are choking in their cells.
The media, cops and politicians describe those who are imprisoned as
marginal elements and criminals, and the pseudo-leftist weenies call them
lumpens. But they are our people - humiliated and oppressed. All the workers
whom they deprived of their rights, work, wages; and thus they are forced to
commit small crimes to feed their families, their kids. Yes, the rules of
life here are hard, and even cruel, but there is also real mutual aid - when
people give their medicines to those who feel even worse and those who have
nothing; when they altogether declare a boycott against the authorities'
illegal treatment etc. But those who don't care about their people, who
doesn't know about their needs and sorrows, will never fell the class hatred
and the necessity of revolutionary violence. Aesthetes refined and fed by
authorities can only declare abstract humanism and personal rights without
even understanding what it is, and without knowing that there will be
constant humiliation and oppression, until the system of state terrorizing.
But it is impossible to bring down the system without physical extermination
of those who support this system: politicians, cops and other scum, who will
never give away the power at will. I'm writing these lines - not just
writing, i suffered it - the terror that is brought by anyone possessing
power to any common man.
I perfectly understand that these ideas can only be supported by the
minority, even among the leftists; moreover, even those who perform "leftist
protection" do think of me as of someone suffering the complex of
inferiority; the others even call me a provocateur among "normal" leftists.
Let them be - i follow my own way, i hope that the leftists are going to
have some social roots sometime, and there will be more and more people,
whose life and fate are unbreakably connected both to social revolutionary
processes and to their own people.
I hope that the letter will be published together with the last word,
partially if necessary. I also want my second letter from the FSB
investigation cell to be published together with the large article.
26.07.99,
By the end of the investigation (end of May) the situation for the
three arrested people - Maria Randina, Larisa Schiptsova and Gennady
Nepshikuyev - seemed to be improving. Charges against Maria Randina were
dropped and she became a witness, not an accused in this case. All of
the three arrested were freed from prison until the court hearings. The
investigators failed to present charges of establishing a criminal group
and terrorism, it was obvious that the "case" is likely to be ruined in
court due to lack of evidence other than Nepshikuyev's statements.
Larisa Schiptsova and Gennady Nepshikuyev were facing charges of
possession and transportation of explosives, Schiptsova was also charged
with possession of cannabis.
At the same time all pledges to free Schiptsova from FSB (ex-KGB) prison
were ignored, in spite of the fact that she is now 8 months pregnant.
Her lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, attracted too much interest from the FSB
- he was illegally spied on (and tapes were incorporated into the
materials of the investigation - rather normal violation of the law, by
Russian standards). On June 28 he was also interrogated in Moscow by FSB
officers concerning the bombing of FSB offices in April this year.
On July 12 the court hearings started in Krasnodar. The prosecutor asked
for 6 years of imprisonment for Schiptsova and 7 years for Nepshikuyev,
but the lawyers of the accused were hoping to get a softer sentence and
get amnesty for Larisa due to her pregnancy. The court failed to listen
to all of the witnesses, while the main witness- Maria Randina -
retrieved her earlier testimonies and denied that it was Larisa who gave
her the explosive device. The court took a break on July 14 only to hear
Larisa's last statement and announce its verdict on July 20. Pledges for
amnesty were refused by the court, contrary to the regulations of the
amnesty bill, which is valid until December this year.
On July 20 the court announced its ruling - 4 years of imprisonment in a
prison camp for Larisa Schiptsova and 3 years for Gennady Nepshikuyev,
no amnesty or postponement of the sentence is provided. Lawyers plan to
make an appeal against the ruling of the court in the next few days,
meanwhile a press conference is being organized.
The prison sentence for Schiptsova and Nepshikuyev was announced the
same day a notorious Russian journalist Grigory Pasko was freed from KGB
prison in Vladivostok, Far East. The two cases were very similar in some
respects, namely the fact that the KGB was trying to charge the accused
with serious crimes ("terrorism" in case of the Krasnodar 3, "betrayal
of the country" in case of Pasko - for reporting information on nuclear
waste in the Russian Pacific Navy), but failed to present these charges
in court. Nevertheless, once captured and imprisoned, the accused didn't
have a chance for being acquitted - KGB and the procurator's office
never admit "mistakes" and instead present weaker charges and a softer
sentence. Pasko was charged with violations of his responsibilities,
sentenced to 3 years, amnestied and freed. He also had the fortune of
having public opinion on his side and extensive media coverage. The
anarchists arrested in Krasnodar made it to newspapers and TV programs
to a much lesser extent and mainly at the time of the opening of the
trial. Not a single nationwide paper reported the court ruling the next
day after it was pronounced (July 21), that means that the people
campaigning on their behalf should put an extra effort into making the
public know about the unjust prison sentence.
"THE PLOT"
It all started in a very familiar way. On November 28, 1998 at
Krasnodar railway station the cops apparently disliked the way several
young anarchist punks looked and the fact that they drank vine in public.
A search followed and some explosives were found in the bag of Gennady
Nepshikuyev. Police has arrested him and 2 other people, namely Maria Randina
and Jan Musel, a Czech citizen. Jan was released after a while on the insistence
of the Czech consulate, Gennady and Maria remained under arrest.
Little if any information is available on what happened between
their arrest in November and February 2, when two more searches in the
flats of anarchists were conducted by FSB (successor of KGB) in Moscow
and a third person, Larisa Schiptsova, was arrested. On this very day Vlad
Tupikin, a Moscow-based anarchist whose house was searched and documents
and computer confiscated, was asked by the FSB whether he knows of Shiptsova's
attitude towards "national policy of governor Kondratenko". That's when
the anarchists began to understand that they are part of the great Zionist
design to overthrow the beloved governor of Krasnodar, whom the region's
dwellers refer to as "batka Kondrat" (father Kondrat). This was just a
first sign that the paranoid anti-Semitic governor and his lackeys are
looking forward to present the case as an attempt on his life. The plot
to assasinate Kondratenko will become just another minor detail (although
nobody knows to which proportions it can be blown) of his own policy to
blame everything on Jewish and other conspiracies.
Nikolai Kondratenko became notorious after he made public chauvinistic
and anti-Semitic statements on the regional TV (later aired on the national
channel as well) and his support of regional Nazis became widely-known
(Russia's largest fascist party, Russian National Unity, or RNE, operates
legally in Krasnodar). Southern Russia is a fertile ground for Russian
nationalism, with Cossack militias, who are usually racist and anti-Semitic
and who are actively trying to arm themselves and get some legal status
(the same as RNE, the Cossacks usually work together with police in patrolling
the streets and fighting "people of Caucasian nationality").
For the Krasnodar anarchists it should have been little surprise
that their comrades became the targets of Kondratenko's paranoid search
for enemies. Kuban Anarchist Federation (FAK) was almost the only political
group in the region to have the guts to openly demonstrate against nationalist
policies of Kondratenko and the thugs of RNE. Local anarchists had a few
fights with the Nazis and constantly received threats of murder. Maria
Randina knew it too well - she was the most active anarchist to resist
the establishment of nazi-controlled University police in Krasnodar (for
which she was thrown out of the Krasnodar Uni). Besides that for a few
years now Krasnodar anarchists were under close surveillance of the regional
FSB, which was also due to the active anti- fascist stance.
Although the 3 persons arrested to this date are formally charged
with transportation and possession of explosives, and no charges of terrorism
and establishing a criminal group were presented to them, the regional
papers controlled by the governor reported that an attempt to kill him
was prevented. Kondratenko himself is reported by the press to be telling
that the terrorists were going to plant a bomb into his office and that
they were acting on behalf of "certain" (one can be sure, "pro-Zionist")
circles in Moscow. "What else but money could bring together a Czech, an
Adygeyan and a Russian from Siberia?" Kondratenko is reported to have said
at a meeting of nationalist writers. (Nepshikuyev lives in Adygeya, a region
bordering on Krasnodar region, Randina is originally from Siberia.)
THE SITUATION OF THE KRASNODAR 3
Some serious difficulties have already emerged for the arrested
people - while the usual cases of carrying explosives are investigated
by the local police, the Krasnodar 3 received special treatment. They were
placed into the prison of the regional FSB and the case is being conducted
by the regional procurator's office and the Krasnodar FSB.
Larisa Schiptsova is suffering physically the most since she is
4 months pregnant and the nutrition in Krasnodar FSB prison is outrageous
(a plate of watery soup with just a little cabbage and potato once per
day). Already after 3 weeks of imprisonment her dents were bleeding and
doctors already detected some problems in fetus' development.
Larisa's attorney, Stanislav Markelov, also attracted attention
from the investigators - all of the anarchists interrogated in Krasnodar
at the end of February were questioned not only about the case, but also
about where Markelov comes from, etc. It is no coincidence that searches
in Krasnodar were carried out in the flats of people whom Markelov met
when he was in town, even those who are not active anarchists and have
no relation to the case. (Markelov was also an attorney for Andrey Sokolov,
a young Stalinists sentenced recently for blowing up a monument to the
Russian royal family. His case was reconsidered in mid-March, he got softer
sentence for vandalism, not terrorism, and was released from prison.) There
are chances that the investigators simply want to replace Markelov with
a more obedient lawyer.
Something similar to that was happening to Maria Randina, because
until recently she only had a lawyer recommended by the investigator (since
pressure was put on her relative who had to sign a contract with a lawyer).
Fortunately another, more experienced lawyer was found for Maria, the one
who has some experience at defending the "politicals."
Gennady Nepshikuyev, in whose bag the explosives were found, seems
to be too talkative and his words are the only evidence for charges against
the other two arrested. There are reasons to believe that he basically
tells what the investigators want to hear (naming people, who cannot even
be connected with the accused). Unfortunately FSB keeps his testimonies
secret and there is no detailed information on that. Some anarchists believe
that Nepshikuyev was either used by the authorities to create a "conspiracy"
or is too willing to cooperate with the investigators now.
PROTESTS AND MEDIA BLACK OUT
On March 30 anarchists and human rights activists picketed the
Federation Council (upper houses of the Russian parliament) demanding release
Maria Randina and Larisa Schiptsova. The protestors handed out leaflets,
held large posters against the police state, for the release of the arrested
anarchists and chanted slogans "The state is the main extremist", "FSB
(KGB) is child murderer", etc. On the same day pickets were organized in
Yekaterinburg and St.Petersburg (Russia) and Berlin. Various human rights,
ecological and leftist groups are sending their protests to the Krasnodar
authorities.
So far there is very few reports of the case in the Russian media,
which apparently finds the story not spectacular enough. Now, with the
war in Yugoslavia and nationalistic craze here in Russia, there are even
fewer chances that the Krasnodar case will be among the topics actively
discussed by the media. Not a single journalist showed up at the demo on
March 30 (partly due to the fact that the media was preoccupied with Yeltsin's
address to the parliament which happened on the same day, unfortunately
at a different building). Groups set up in Moscow, St.Petersburg and other
cities to campaign for the release of the arrested anarchists are continuing
their efforts to break the media blockade.
LARISA'S LETTER TO COMRADES FROM INVESTIGATION CELL
Hi to my dear friends and all people who feel worried about the "Krasnodar
epopee". I'm writing after a show performed by the court which resulted in
my imprisonment. Since the court session was open, many people could watch
the case disintegrating - all their fake evidences were clearly seen.
Nepshikuyev had changed his testimonial statements again (now he refuses the
fact that he intended to blow up Kondrat's office - he wanted just to blow
something up, for fun); Randina, who was transferred to witnesses, claims to
have received some parcel (containing those damned grenades) at my place
from some people whom she doesn't remember since she was in state of
intoxication, and I (Larisa) was asleep at that time; witness Platonov has
testified the fact of oppression brought upon him by FSB and judge Osipenko:
and things of the kind. Material evidences from my apartment were also
produced: soldering irons, wires, a dirty finger-size empty can - the very
can from which the dreaded experts have managed to get 2 grammes of
explosive materials (they must have scraped it): I'm not going to describe
all that fuss - let the eye-witnesses do that - the Muscovites and
Krasnodarians who came to support me.
Revolutionary hails from Larisa Romanova
- translation: Alexey Kovalev
No Mercy for Anarchists in Krasnodar
- COURT ANNOUNCES PRISON SENTENCE,
On July 20 Pervomaysky district court in Krasnodar, South Russia,
finally made a ruling concerning the case of anarchists arrested several
month ago. The prison sentence for two anarchists was unexpectedly
harsh, especially because one of them, a woman 8 month pregnant now, is
subject to amnesty which is valid until the end of the year.
REFUSES AMNESTY
The Case of the Krasnodar Three
KRASNODAR THREE STILL IMPRISONED, PROTESTS CONTINUE, LIES KEEP FLOWING
(This is an update - as of April 23 - on the situation of and the campaign in defense of the three anarchists arrested in Krasnodar, Southern Russia, who are charged with a plot to assassinate governor Nikolai Kondratenko. Also look up www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba/)
PROTESTS
Anarchist and human rights activists in Russia and other countries continue campaigning for the release of Maria Randina and Larisa Schiptsova arrested on dubious charges of plotting a terrorist attack against Krasnodar governor Nikolai Kondratenko.
April 15 was a special day to send protests to the Krasnodar governor's office and the regional procurator. About 30 letters that
we know about were sent by fax on behalf of anarchist, human rights, ecological and youth organizations from across Russia and foreign countries. Protests were also faxed before this date and we hope that this campaign will continue. One of the most significant results is that a human rights group from Krasnodar got in touch with us and said that it is willing to work with the case.
The largest demo to date was organized in Moscow on April 18 outside the infamous FSB (ex-KGB) headquarters in the center of Moscow. About a hundred people gathered for a rally and a concert near the monument to the victims of political repression (a stone from one of the parts of the GULAG empire was installed there during the perestroika years to commemorate victims of the Soviet regime). Half a dozen bands (some of them were established right on the spot in a classical punk fashion) and about the same number of speakers expressed their outrage through the loud speakers. The highest point of the rally was the signing of the "Ice Under the Boots of the Major", an anti-totalitarian/anti-KGB anthem which dates back to the early perestroika years and sounds very up-to-date now with the numerous cases of political repression against anarchist, leftist and ecological activists and the general mood which spreads in the society:
But until we exist,
there will be black ice,
the major will slip,
the major will fall.
We are ice under the boots of a major"
The mood at the demo was not that one of a stupid punk concert -
most of the bands were straightforwardly political, the crowd was
rather reluctant during the music interludes, but gathered together
in order to hear the speakers.
In St.Petersburg anarchists carry out regular pickets (March 30,
April 16, 21, 28) outside the city council. They have delivered a
petition to the St.Petersburg governor, handed out leaflets, talked
to the people and journalists, gathered sigtnatures under the letter
of protest to the Krasnodar authorities. Information is also being
spread during the concerts of local anarcho-punk bands.
MEDIA WAR
Both in Moscow and Petersburg the activists managed to break
the media blockade of the Krasnodar case. Moscow and
St.Petersburg city TV stations run reports on the solidarity demos
and pickets and informed about the case, there were some
publications in the regional press as well. Even one of the
Krasnodar papers made quite an informative report on the case.
The latter is especially significant, since most of the nationwide
papers still didn't report the case or grossly misrepresented it.
Kommersant, the leading business daily, refused to publicize
information on the arrests back in February, than occasionally ran
a piece with Kondratenko's paranoid version of the story: "Among
the terrorists were a Czech, an Adygeyan and a Russian from
Siberia. What else but money could have brought these people
together?" (Kommersant, March 25, 1999)
Izvestia, another nationwide daily, only mentioned the case in
passim by providing yet another paranoid quote from Kondratenko:
"In November a terrorist group was arrested with a bomb of 1,7
kgs of TNT, which they were to blast under my office. They were
arrested. They were people of Jewish nationality. I have gathered
law enforcement agencies and said: don't publicize that in order
not to provoke a wave of anti-Semitism." (Izvestia, April 10, 1999)
Both the way Kondratenko twists information around and the way
his line changes now are quite saying. It was obvious from the very
beginning that the conspiracy card will be played, that "Jews" will
come up at some point, that old lies will be disproved by new ones.
The case is obviously a political one, since most of the things that
are openly discussed don't have anything to do with the legal or
technical side of the case. This is especially true for Kondratenko's
version.
MORE BOMBS, MORE MEDIA SPECULATIONS
On April 4 a big bomb exploded in Moscow and seriously damaged
the office of the FSB where people can report acts of non-
conformity 24 hours a day (a cop and an FSB officer lightly injured
- one with a piece of glass, another with the sound wave). Until a
few days later nobody claimed responsibility for the action and the
most likely versions discussed by the media included Muslim
fundamentalists from Chechnya and some mysterious nationalist
group "Scythian" which tried (unsuccessfully) to shoot grenades
into the US embassy during a rally protesting against NATO
bombings of Yugoslavia.
A few days later one of the radio stations has received a letter from
another mysterious terrorist group, New Revolutionary Alternative
(NRA), which claimed responsibility for the bombing of the FSB
office and stated that the attack was "a protest against bourgeois
terror of the Russian state police system against the radical
opponents of the regime". (Besides the Krasnodar 3, a few
Stalinists and national-bolsheviks are now imprisoned on bombing
and egging charges, so it is not clear who exactly was meant).
Most of the papers, which reported that, thought that NRA was
unlikely to be behind the bombing due to the professional way in
which the bomb was placed and the large amount of explosive
material that was used (NRA previously claimed responsibility for
some minor arsons and bombings of military call up stations,
military procurator's office, ex-Communist trade union federation).
Nevertheless, Kommersant ran a blasphemous piece linking the
bombing to the Krasnodar case in a very peculiar way - NRA was
presented as a "clandestine anarchist organization" (although NRA
never made statements to that effect and can be called leftist at
best), then there was a very biased description of the Krasnodar
case and an ungrounded conclusion anarchists had reasons to
bomb FSB and thus may have resorted to such an action. The
piece was written by the very same journalist who previously
refused to publicize the case as "not interesting enough" and just a
couple of days before publishing this recent piece linked the
bombing of FSB to "Scythian" group.
SITUATION OF THE KRASNODAR THREE
Until now only Larisa Schiptsova had a good lawyer and the
defense group was trying to get Maria Randina a different lawyer
from the one she has now. We found a lawyer, but when he went
to Krasnodar the investigators presented a strange claim that there
should be a written request by Maria to have a new lawyer. The
problem is that there is no communication with Maria and there is
no way to let her know about it. So far she has the lawyer
recommended by the investigators (who signed a contract with
Maria's aunt living in Krasnodar). The one, which we found to
replace him, has an agreement with Maria's parents who live in
Irkutsk, Siberia, but there is no way of letting her know that she
should make a statement demanding that he represents her in this
case. Of course, the investigators don't request a statement from
her that she wants the lawyer that she has now - "he is already
there", they say. Both Larisa's lawyer and Maria's new lawyer are
trying to get things straightened out, but it is really difficult.
Larisa's health and treatment have improved slightly, partly due to
the protest campaign (or so we think), she started to get some
medical aid (she is now more than 4 months pregnant). At the
same time she has to go through all sorts of abuse when the
lawyer comes to see her, - rules suddenly become strict: "You
have half a minute to get dressed and come out!" the warden
shouts. Larisa reports that all wardens in the Krasnodar FSB
prison are male, even in the female part of the prison. Still, she
stands firm, refusing to give investigation any "information" on the
supposed plot and the role other people played.
Gennady Nepshikuyev acts very much differently from the very
beginning. This is the reason why defense campaign is not carried
out on his behalf. It was him, who had the bomb in his bag and
according to the testimonies of the people he was with at the time
of arrest, he started shouting and naming people right on the spot
and later, when he was taken to the police station (that is, before
any psychological or physical pressure may have been used
against him). He is now the only person on whose testimonies the
charges are made up - not so much against him, but against
Maria, Larisa and some other people in the anarchist movement in
Krasnodar and Moscow whose houses were searched (some of
them only met him once and couldn't have any relation whatsoever
to the supposed plot). While we don't have grounds to claim that
he definitely is an agent-provocateur, we also don't campaign on
his behalf.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
We are very grateful to all those who got in touch with us and now
does something to support the anarchists arrested in Krasnodar.
Please, continue to send letters of protest to Krasnodar authorities
by mail and fax. It is very important that pickets are placed outside
the Russian embassies around the world. Groups and individuals
willing to participate in this campaign can do it anytime they like, so
far we don't have any specific dates. However, in future we will
inform you of any coordinated activities, but this is likely to be
when the court hearings are scheduled or if something unexpected
happens. Please, also let us know about the letters you send
and other things you do, so that we can spread the word
further.
(Note that the fax numbers changed, the ones provided below are
supposed to be better ones.)
Please, send protests to governor Kondratenko and the Krasnodar
regional procurator's office, general procurator's office in Moscow:
Nikolai E. Kondratenko, governor of Krasnodar region
350014 Krasnodar, ulitsa Krasnaya, 35
Tel.(7-8612) 62-57-16,
fax (7-8612) 68-35-42 (or 68-35-82 & 68-45-38)
Krasnodar regional procurator
A.N.Shkrebets
Fax (7-8612) 68-25-52, (or 68-30-95)
General procurator's office
Fax (7-095) 921-41-86, 292-45-55
Donations to cover legal and other expenses are welcome.
People in Europe can send money to following account:
Postgiro Berlin BLZ 100 100 10
Sonderkonto K.Schmidt KtoNr.: 20610-106
Please, indicate that the money should go for "Russland/Russia".
People in North America can send checks and money orders (both
of which can be made out to M.Laskey or S. Hyland) to:
WE DARE BE FREE / INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
CAMPAIGN
PO Box 390085, Cambridge, MA 02139
(Since International Solidarity Campaign also collects funds for
Czech anarchists' legal defense, please, indicate that your
donation is for the anarchists arrested in Krasnodar.)
INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
You can get in touch with the Moscow Group for counteraction
against political repression at the following addresses:
koalabear@glasnet.ru
113208, Moscow, M-208, P.O.Box 80, Vladlen Tupikin
(please, don't write the name of the group, just a person's name on
the envelope).
All of the information available on the "Krasnodar case" can be
found at www.ecoline.ru/actions/bomba/ Most of the information is in Russian,
but there are German and English sections as well. The site also features
photos of Maria and Larisa, as well as photos from the demos in their support
held in Moscow.
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