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Kirill Medvedev on opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in prison, the recent jailing of high-profile anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky and how the international left can campaign against President Vladimir Putin’s repressive regime.
Saturday 2 September was an international day of solidarity demanding the release of Azat Miftakhov, a mathematician and anarchist anti-fascist activist who is spending his fifth year in prison in Russia. He is accused of setting fire to an office of the ruling United Russia party in 2018. He is due to be released soon, having completed his sentence. However, he has just been declared a "terrorist" and therefore runs the risk of remaining imprisoned under any other pretext, especially as the wave of repression is now affecting the left opposed to the Kremlin.
There is only one Russian political prisoner, Alexei Navalny, who is known in the West. In Russia itself, he is also the most famous among the many people who are behind bars for their political activities. But this creates a problem for many of the victims of Putin’s system, because their suffering is hidden from view by the single-minded focus on “prisoner number one.”