On ‘Laughter Day’ (01.04.2025), at the request of Russia's Roskomnadzor, I was blocked by the last Russian-speaking website ‘Human Rights Portal’, where I could publish my articles and posts.

11 April 2022 for an anti-war post: I can't and don't want to keep silent!

( https://www.yabloko.ru/blog/2022/03/02  )

A Barnaul court sentenced me to an administrative penalty in the form of a fine for discrediting the Russian armed forces.

            On 6 June 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor blocked the website yabloko-altai.ru, where I was editor-in-chief, for allegedly ‘information materials containing inaccurate information of public importance about the special military operation being conducted by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, its form, methods of combat operations, as well as information about attacks on civilian infrastructure, numerous casualties among the civilian population of Ukraine and in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...’.

            It's a pity about the site. In the best of times, according to mai.ru, the site was one of the top twenty popular sites in Russia's ‘politics’ category.

            At the end of September 2022, the administration of the social network Odnoklassniki blocked my personal account marked ‘forever’. I had to create a new page, which managed to exist for a little over a year.

            The social network ‘VKontakte’ disconnected both my accounts from Russian users, forcing me to close them.

On 30 June 2023, a criminal case was opened against me under Article 280.3 (public actions aimed at discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and in November 2023, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Barnaul arrested me in absentia and then put me on an interstate wanted list.

And now Roskomnadzor has presented me with an April ‘joke’ in the form of a blockade of a human rights portal. The last material I posted there was about psychological help for Ukrainian refugees: ‘The ninth adaptation seminar-training for Ukrainian refugees took place in Hamburg’ (you can read the English version of the article here https://www.alexandergoncharenko.com/blog/read_207312/the-ninth-adaptation-training-seminar-for-ukrainian-refugees-was-held-in-hamburg-for-ukrainian-refugees.html  ).

In the cult Russian film Brat 2, the hero, played by Sergei Bodrov, asks his older brother (actor Viktor Sukhorukov): ‘What is strength, brother?’ and answers himself: ‘I think that strength is in the truth, who has the truth is stronger.’

I would like to ask the z-patriots and the Russian authorities: ‘If you say that you have the truth behind you, why is it that everyone who disagrees with you is fined, imprisoned, newspapers closed, websites and personal accounts blocked?’.

Like Bodrov's hero, I will answer myself: ‘The truth is not behind you!’.

In connection with the above, it turns out that the Word is stronger than a gun!

 

 01.04.2025

Alexander Goncharenko, Russian political emigrant