#Vitaly Cherkasov

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In the Woods

Petersburg human rights attorney extraordinaire Vitaly Cherkasov found this placard in the woods southeast of the city whilst hiking there: “Verily I say unto you that people diagnosed with psychiatric conditions are the finest people in our society, for they help the poor and the sick. O how many good deeds are done in St. Petersburg by people diagnosed with psychiatric conditions.” Today we…

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Swirl by Vitaly Cherkasov  

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A Hostage of the Putin Regime: The Case of Ekaterina Kishchak

The special detention center at Zakharyevskaya 6 in downtown Petersburg. Image courtesy of Yandex Maps via mr7.ru Police have detained Ekaterina Kishchak, a 20-year-old resident of Crimea, a citizen of Ukraine and Russia, and the daughter of Yuri Kishchak, a suspect in the bombing of a power line in the Leningrad Region. The young woman is currently at a special detention center in St.…

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Spring Fundraiser for Political Prisoner Viktor Filinkov

Viktor Filinkov Fundraiser for continuing Viktor “Vitya” Filinkov’s campaign against the FSIN, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service! I haven’t written here for a long time generally and about Vitya in particular. We haven’t seen each other for almost two months. That’s an awfully long time, and I miss him terribly. Soon I will fly back to Orenburg and tell you how Vitya is doing, but after…

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Coloring in Solidarity with Viktor Filinkov

Coloring in Solidarity with Viktor Filinkov

“An anti-prison coloring book for Jenya and Viktor and everyone” Not so long ago I wrote that coloring brightens up my minutes and hours of waiting for Viktor at the penal colony. So Yana Teplitskaya has designed an entire coloring book in support of Viktor and me!! The coloring book can be downloaded at the link below and printed out on a printer, and you can make a donation for it. If you…

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Viktor Filinkov: The Big Picture

Viktor Filinkov: The Big Picture

Viktor Filinkov, political prisoner: “An idealist who takes on responsibility for the big picture” People and Nature July 4, 2020

While Black Lives Matter demonstrators fill the streets of cities around the world, opening a new chapter in the history of anti-racist and anti-fascist struggle, the Russian anti-fascists Viktor Filinkov and Yuli Boyarshinov are starting long jail sentences.

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Vocalese (The Network Trials) Viktor Filinkov (left) and Yuli Boyarshinov (right) in the dock at the Network trial in Petersburg, discussing matters with their defense lawyers.

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Cell by Vitaly Cherkasov

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by Vitaly Cherkasov