Lev Skoryakin News Today

Opinion | The first emotion I felt when I found out that Navalny was killed was fear.

Opinion | The European Union parliament adopted a resolution last week that, among other things, states that highlighted how members of Russian civil society and opposition groups living in exile in Europe struggle to live under the bloc’s sanction policy.

A Russian left-wing nationalist activist has been placed inside a detention center in southern Russia after going missing in neighboring Georgia a month ago, the independent news website Mediazona reported Wednesday.

Opposition activist Lev Skoryakin -- who is wanted by Moscow for taking part in a protest at a Russian Federal Security Service building in 2021 -- has allegedly been abducted in Kyrgyzstan just a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Bishkek.

In night between 16th and 17th of October in Bishkek, according to DOXA, unknown people kidnapped activist of Left Bloc, anarchist Lev Skoryakin. Lawyers do not know about his whereabouts. In Russia, Skoryakin is accused of ”hooliganism with weapons”, due to action against a FSB office in the South-West of Moscow with another activist of the Left Bloc Ruslan Abasov.

Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky’s arrest is just the latest in an ongoing and escalating war against domestic dissent, writes Federico Fuentes.

Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky’s arrest is just the latest in an ongoing and escalating war against domestic dissent, writes Federico Fuentes.

Several Russian anti-war activists who fled their homeland after the invasion of Ukraine now say Kremlin security forces might be secretly pressuring their host countries to force them to go back to Russia.

In one case, both the U.S. and Russia want a Russian citizen extradited, putting the states of Central Asia once again in the middle of a geopolitical mess.

War in Ukraine has already increased the level of repressions in Russia, but there are not yet any new criminal proceedings against anarchist or anti-fascist activists. In this new exceptional situation, we are channeling some of our resources to humanitarian needs which go beyond our usual narrow focus of supporting repressed anarchists and anti-fascists.