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They have left. A variety of people. Very much unlike one another. Some left instantly, others some time later. Some left because they feared persecution, others were just scared. Some of them made a bet. Others are plugging away. ....
Former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves gave the laudatory speech at a ceremony in honor of Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident and opposition leader imprisoned by Russian authorities since early on this year and recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. Navalny is 2021's recipient of the Knight of Freedom Award 2021. The text of Toomas Hendrik Ilves' speech marking the award and given at the Warsaw Security Forum on Wednesday evening, October 6, is as follows. ....
“Now and then the flame dies down, but solidarity is a stream of sparks” Ilya Shakursky, an antifascist political prisoner in Russia, appeals to people to write to him, and to others imprisoned in the infamous “Network” case. See a note at the end about where to send messages This article is published on several web sites simultaneously, in solidarity with Russian antifascist political prisoners jailed in the Network case. Tomorrow, Tuesday 19 January, antifascists in Russia will mark the anniversary of the assassination of antifascists Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov, who were shot dead in broad daylight in central Moscow in 2009. People will gather in Moscow, to lay flowers at the place where they were killed, elsewhere on line. ....