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  1. The campaign of the rebellious Prigozhin with the Wagner PMCs to Moscow ended with a truce between Prigozhin and Putin with the participation of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko and the governor of the Tula region, formerly Putin's security guard Dyumin.

    Something tells me that only the intermission in this tragicomedy has come.

    What is the dry residue of Prigozhin's coup?

    According to the telegram channel Layout: "During the raid (PMCS Wagner - author's note), the Russian military were killed. The death of at least two pilots of a combat helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces, who were shot down in the Talovsky district of the Voronezh region, has been confirmed." According to the publication Readovka, 15 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were killed (most of them are pilots).

    According to the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Murder in a socially dangerous way" (paragraph "e" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), and/or "Sabotage" (Part 3 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code), and "terrorist act (paragraph "b" of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    According to the telegram channel "Rybar", the Russian Aerospace Forces in the confrontation with the PMCS Wagner lost six helicopters and one plane. The destruction of equipment falls under the definition of "Sabotage" (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) or under "Terrorist attack" (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    According to the telegram channel "Rybar", the Russian Aerospace Forces in the confrontation with the PMCS Wagner lost six helicopters and one plane. The destruction of equipment falls under the definition of "Sabotage" (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) or under "Terrorist attack" (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    The Russian military, apparently, seriously damaged two bridges in the Voronezh region: an overpass over the Don highway near Boguchar and a bridge over the Bityug River near the Anna district center. The publication Baza wrote with reference to eyewitness accounts that a shell was launched on the second bridge. Several people were injured as a result of the explosion on the bridge – at the time of the incident, a car was passing there, in which there was a married couple and their three-year-old child. The victims needed the help of ambulance doctors.

    The damaged infrastructure facility is an oil depot in Voronezh, where a tank with fuel weighing about 5 thousand tons caught fire. The fire was extinguished only after 12 hours.

    According to the law, the punishment for sabotage or terrorist attack is tougher if there has been an encroachment on the sources of dangerous chemicals. The roadway in the Rostov, Voronezh and Lipetsk regions was damaged — both by the tracks of the armored vehicles of the Wagner PMCs and by civilian equipment, with which the local authorities tried to stop the advance of the rebel forces.

    In peacetime, this can be qualified as "Vandalism" (Article 214 of the Criminal Code) or as "Intentional destruction or damage to property".

    Who will be responsible for the death of servicemen and other crimes?

    The answer is no one!

    The press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov said that the criminal case against the head of the Wagner PMCs Yevgeny Prigozhin about the organization of a military mutiny will be terminated, he will "go to Belarus." The authorities will not pursue the fighters of the Wagner PMCs who participated in the mutiny, "taking into account their front-line merits."

    The authorities will not pursue the fighters of the Wagner PMCs who participated in the mutiny, "taking into account their front-line merits." How did it become possible that for almost a quarter of a century of Putin's rule, a country with a weak democratic system has turned into an authoritarian, and now into a totalitarian one. The number of political prisoners in the country is now greater than during the years of Brezhnev's rule.

    The institutions of power, over the years, have turned into an imitation. The state delegated the right to violence to private military companies, which are officially banned in the country, but have actually existed for a long time. The blame for the degradation of state institutions in the country lies not only on the current government, but also on the elites, and on the deep Russian people, who have been trumping their apoliticality all these years.

    Prigozhin's putsch became possible because of his (special military operation). SVO began on 02/24/2022 with a full-scale military aggression of the Russian armed forces against the independent state of Ukraine. In Russia, the period from 1604 to 1618 is considered to be a time of troubles. The turmoil was accompanied by natural disasters, numerous cases of imposture and external intervention, civil war, severe state-political and socio-economic crises.

    The beginning of the troubles in the XVII century was the campaign of False Dmitry I (Grigory Otrepyev) to Moscow, and the beginning of the troubles in the XXI century was the campaign of Yevgeny Prigozhin. A well-known saying of the historian Vasily Klyuchevsky: "History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of lessons."

    Alexander Goncharenko, doctor, Russian human rights activist and politician

    The campaign of the rebellious Prigozhin with the Wagner PMCs to Moscow ended with a truce between Prigozhin and Putin with the participation of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko and the governor of the Tula region, formerly Putin's security guard Dyumin.

    Something tells me that only the intermission in this tragicomedy has come.

    What is the dry residue of Prigozhin's coup?

    According to the telegram channel Layout: "During the raid (PMCS Wagner - author's note), the Russian military were killed. The death of at least two pilots of a combat helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces, who were shot down in the Talovsky district of the Voronezh region, has been confirmed." According to the publication Readovka, 15 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were killed (most of them are pilots).

    According to the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "Murder in a socially dangerous way" (paragraph "e" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code), and/or "Sabotage" (Part 3 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code), and "terrorist act (paragraph "b" of Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    According to the telegram channel "Rybar", the Russian Aerospace Forces in the confrontation with the PMCS Wagner lost six helicopters and one plane. The destruction of equipment falls under the definition of "Sabotage" (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) or under "Terrorist attack" (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    According to the telegram channel "Rybar", the Russian Aerospace Forces in the confrontation with the PMCS Wagner lost six helicopters and one plane. The destruction of equipment falls under the definition of "Sabotage" (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) or under "Terrorist attack" (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

    The Russian military, apparently, seriously damaged two bridges in the Voronezh region: an overpass over the Don highway near Boguchar and a bridge over the Bityug River near the Anna district center. The publication Baza wrote with reference to eyewitness accounts that a shell was launched on the second bridge. Several people were injured as a result of the explosion on the bridge – at the time of the incident, a car was passing there, in which there was a married couple and their three-year-old child. The victims needed the help of ambulance doctors.

    The damaged infrastructure facility is an oil depot in Voronezh, where a tank with fuel weighing about 5 thousand tons caught fire. The fire was extinguished only after 12 hours.

    According to the law, the punishment for sabotage or terrorist attack is tougher if there has been an encroachment on the sources of dangerous chemicals. The roadway in the Rostov, Voronezh and Lipetsk regions was damaged — both by the tracks of the armored vehicles of the Wagner PMCs and by civilian equipment, with which the local authorities tried to stop the advance of the rebel forces.

    In peacetime, this can be qualified as "Vandalism" (Article 214 of the Criminal Code) or as "Intentional destruction or damage to property".

    Who will be responsible for the death of servicemen and other crimes?

    The answer is no one!

    The press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov said that the criminal case against the head of the Wagner PMCs Yevgeny Prigozhin about the organization of a military mutiny will be terminated, he will "go to Belarus." The authorities will not pursue the fighters of the Wagner PMCs who participated in the mutiny, "taking into account their front-line merits."

    The authorities will not pursue the fighters of the Wagner PMCs who participated in the mutiny, "taking into account their front-line merits." How did it become possible that for almost a quarter of a century of Putin's rule, a country with a weak democratic system has turned into an authoritarian, and now into a totalitarian one. The number of political prisoners in the country is now greater than during the years of Brezhnev's rule.

    The institutions of power, over the years, have turned into an imitation. The state delegated the right to violence to private military companies, which are officially banned in the country, but have actually existed for a long time. The blame for the degradation of state institutions in the country lies not only on the current government, but also on the elites, and on the deep Russian people, who have been trumping their apoliticality all these years.

    Prigozhin's putsch became possible because of his (special military operation). SVO began on 02/24/2022 with a full-scale military aggression of the Russian armed forces against the independent state of Ukraine. In Russia, the period from 1604 to 1618 is considered to be a time of troubles. The turmoil was accompanied by natural disasters, numerous cases of imposture and external intervention, civil war, severe state-political and socio-economic crises.

    The beginning of the troubles in the XVII century was the campaign of False Dmitry I (Grigory Otrepyev) to Moscow, and the beginning of the troubles in the XXI century was the campaign of Yevgeny Prigozhin. A well-known saying of the historian Vasily Klyuchevsky: "History teaches nothing, but only punishes for ignorance of lessons."

    Alexander Goncharenko, doctor, Russian human rights activist and politicianсмута

     

  2. Выступление Александра Гончаренко, 4 июняУчастники митинга 4 июня в Гамбурге с транспорантами на немецком языкеУчастники митинга 4 июня в Гамбурге с плакатомУчастники митинга 4 июня в поддержку Навального и других политзаключенныхOn June 4, 2023, a rally was held on the Meckenbergstrasse in Hamburg: under the title "We are together. A rally in support of Alexei Navalny and all political prisoners." There are now more than 500 prisoners in Russia recognized by Memorial as political. These are people who are imprisoned for their faith, political and anti-war activism. Their list is updated every day.

    Despite the sunny, Sunday afternoon and a lot of cultural events, more than 100 people came to a public event in Hamburg on this day in support of Russian political prisoners. Among the participants were not only Russians, but also several German civil activists who are not indifferent to the fate of Russian political prisoners.

    After the official opening of the rally, the organizers of the event kindly gave me the floor. Below I publish the full text of my speech: "Dear compatriots, dear German friends! Now, back in 1975, the great Russian songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky wrote a quatrain:

    In those days, secluded,

    Now — almost epic,

    When the deadlines are huge

    We walked in long stages.

    Vysotsky wrote about the period of Stalin's repressions, but the lines turned out to be prophetic for modern Russia. Just think, 10 years ago (in 2012), three Pussy Riot members were sentenced to two years in prison. On the "two-piece", as they said then. This caused a huge outrage among the Russian and world public.

    After the start of full-scale Russian military aggression against Ukraine and seven years in prison for the oppositionists is no longer a term!

    Politician Ilya Yashin and student Dmitry Ivanov received 8.5 years in prison each. According to an unlawful decision, journalist Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in prison for alleged treason, and public figure Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years.

    There are more political prisoners in Russia today than in the Brezhnev Soviet Union! The country has made a historical circle, and it has returned to the state that my fellow countryman from Altai, the poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, wrote about:

    On the fields of thawing, The free will breathes…

     Half of the country is a staging area.

    Half of the country is a convoy.

    The lieutenant is looking out the window.

    He drinks – he won 't stop…

    Half the country is already sitting.

    Half the country is getting ready.

    As a human rights activist who has been involved in the Russian prison system for many years, I will say that our primary task in helping political prisoners is to mention their names on all available public platforms, in the media, on the Internet social networks on the principle: No one is forgotten!

    In Russian prisons, political prisoners, especially those who do not have much fame abroad, such as Alexei Navalny or Vladimir Kara-Murza, have to deal not only with cannibalistic laws and rules of internal prison regulations, but also with the lawlessness of ordinary jailers, with a cruel thieves' world with their "concepts" and caste.

    Taking this opportunity, I want to express my words of support to all political prisoners and personally to those whom I personally know.

    This is to Vladimir Kara-Murza, my colleague at Yabloko from Khakassia Mikhail Afanasyev, the founder of the weekly "Leaf" in the Altai Republic Sergey Mikhailov, the coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Barnaul Vadim Ostanin and Altai journalist Maria Ponomarenko.

    The situation has developed so that the keys to the prison cells of Russian political prisoners are in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    The military victory of Ukraine over the aggressor and the restoration of the Russian-Ukrainian borders of 1991, against the background of economic sanctions, will lead to a split of the elites, to the displeasure of the deep people, and may end in the collapse of the Putin regime.

    Even if not immediately, but after a certain period, democratic processes will begin in Russia, and with them the release of all political prisoners.

    Let's say it together as loudly as possible:

    TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS FREEDOM – YES!

     PUTIN'S GANG ON TRIAL – YES!

    Thank you.

    Alexander Goncharenko, doctor, Russian politician and human rights activist