Civilians face repression for sharing Russian troop movements ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ In September 2025, opposition media in Belarus estimated that one …
Belarus’s informational partisans
Tag: Belarus
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 poli…
The anti-militarism of fools
How Western leftists and anarchists found ‘convenient’ voices from Eastern Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Debates on anti-militarism continu…
Lukashenko’s tentacles: Scams, phishing and threats to families
How the Belarussian KGB has been targetting the diaspora in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ In 2023, a scandal broke out when a Belarusian opposition act…
Anarchist News Review: Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Liberal ineffectualism
A winding discussion starts with China’s Deepseek and its impact on US dominance in the sphere of artificial intelligence.
The bizarre ritual of re-elections in Belarus
While heavy repression will prevent any mass protests, resistance from below continues ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ On Sunday 26 January Alexander Lukashenko…
Viktar ‘Mao’ Žarkievič (1973-2024) — Belarusian punk legend
The frontman of Hate To State and Chaliera died less than two years after a stint of political imprisonment ~ from Naša Niva ~ Viktar became inter…
Hunger strike of Ihar Alinevich: What is known now
Ihar Alinevich , an anarcho-partisan sentenced to 20 years for participating in the Belarusian uprising, went on hunger strike.
Cell V: Abolishing Legally Sanctioned Totalitarian Spaces
From the forests of Poland to the cells of Germany, this cross-border investigation examines the threat of the institutionalised violence and death…
Poland, Belarus, Lithuania: A border crisis hell
In November, Ruhi Loren Akhtar (Founder & CEO of Refugee Biriyani & Bananas) travelled to the Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus border to asse…
Belarus: anarchist Mikola Dziadok sentenced to 5 years incarceration
On 10th November, a judge at Minsk City Court announced a sentence in the case of anarchist and blogger Mikalai Dziadok.
Murder by negligence on EU border
Last month, Freedom reported on the plight of 32 people from Afghanistan seeking asylum in the EU imprisoned on the Polish-Belarus border…
32 people from Afghanistan are currently imprisoned by armed guards on Poland-Belarus border
In this episode of Freedom’s informal series “The Fuckeries of Poland“, we will discuss the plight of a group of people from Afgh…
Moscow court rules to extradite Belarusian anti-fascist despite ECHR ban
The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction upheld the decision to expel 22-year-old anti-fascist from Brest Andrei Kazimirov to Belarus, des…
Belarus: Antifascist detained to serve 18 months of forced labour for a street performance
Belarussian activist, antifascist and the singer of street punk band Mister X– Igor Bancer has been sent to a work camp following a court verdict…
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The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
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Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
