For Max

Anti-war resistance in Russia and anarchists

Thousands of Russians have been fighting against the invasion to Ukraine. During first month of protests against the war, 15 000 people were detained. Small street actions are still sporadically taking place, although they are heavily persecuted. More than 300 people have been imprisoned for anti-war activities, including six anarchists and antifascists. What are the current anti-war initiatives in Russia tofollow? How to support Russian anti-war movement, which is operating in more and more repressive circumstances? Why Russian anti-war movement has this far failed to change the course of war? Who are the current anarchist and anti-fascists prisoners in Russia, and how to support them? A presentation for the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, 1 November 2025, by Antti Rautiainen. The presentation was also delivered at the London Anarchist Bookfair on 20 Septemberand at the Cowley Club in Bristol on 21 September 2025. The presentation largely follows the one given in Agrinio and three other Greek cities in June 2025 (https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/anarchist-and-anti-fascist-prisoners-russia-anarhikoi-kai-antifasistes-stis-rosikes [https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/anarchist-and-anti-fascist-prisoners-russia-anarhikoi-kai-antifasistes-stis-rosikes]), but is more concise, as no translation was required. Compared to the June presentation, the case of Kirill Bobrov has beenadded. Kirill Bobrov was suspected of involvement in the insurrectionary anarchist organisation RevolutionaryAssociation of Free People in 2011–2012. The group claimed responsibility for arson attacks against government buildings and the ruling party in Ufa. Kirill managed to escape and was granted asylum in Austria, but later returned to Russia while suffering from serious mental health problems. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2024; however, the anarchist movement only became aware of his case in 2025. Check out this podcast as a video: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut [https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut] Twitter:https://twitter.com/ARautiainen [https://twitter.com/ARautiainen] Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHta3gaQwjTZBfULOxGykg Blog:https://avtonom.org/en/people/antti-rautiainen TikTok:tiktok.com/@anttiraut Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen [https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen] Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libertarian-life-coach/id1626178673 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen [https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen] Bio:https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile [https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile] Spotify suomeksi:https://open.spotify.com/show/1vZdprHa8waTlZh1ME8hMO Spotifyна русском:https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj

Struggles Against the Right-Wing Government in Finland

In spring of 2023, after center-left government of Sanna Marin was defeated in Finnish elections, leader of neoliberal National Coalition party invited right-wing populist Perussuomalaiset (Finns, literal translation Basic Finns) -party to form the most right-wing government in Finland since 1920’s. Since then, multiple protest movements have arisen in Finland, against austerity, anti-immigrant and anti-labor measures of the government, and revealed racist messages and cooperation of right-wing populist with Nazis. Labour unions declared wave of strikes, including halting of most Finnish foreign trade for 1 month in spring of 2024. However, this far protest movements have gained only minor victories. How history of the right-wing populism in Finland explains its relatively easy access to positions of power? What are lessons of the 2023-2024 protest movement in Finland for movements in other countries, struggling against rise of the right-wing populism and far right? Presentation in Anarchist days 2024 in Dresden,Germany 20th of September 2024. Checkout this podcast - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/struggles-against-right-wing-government-finland - as a video: https://youtu.be/hwVlZ6xKljM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut [https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut] Twitter:https://twitter.com/ARautiainen [https://twitter.com/ARautiainen] Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHta3gaQwjTZBfULOxGykg Blog:https://avtonom.org/en/people/antti-rautiainen TikTok:tiktok.com/@anttiraut Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen [https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen] Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libertarian-life-coach/id1626178673 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen [https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen] Ask:https://ask.fm/AnttiR [https://ask.fm/AnttiR] Bio:https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile [https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile] Spotify suomeksi:https://open.spotify.com/show/1vZdprHa8waTlZh1ME8hMO Spotifyна русском:https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj [https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj]

Anarchist and anti-fascist prisoners in Russia - Αναρχικοί και αντιφασίστες στις Ρωσικές φυλακές

Presentation in Apertus squat of Agrinion, Greece, 21th of June 2025. Presentation inEnglish, translation to Greek. Since year 2017, Russian special service FSB has moved to destroy the anarchist and anti-fascist movements by opening ”anti-terrorist” criminal cases, and torturing victims to confessions. Repressions gained momentum after Russian invasion against Ukraine in 2022, number of anarchists affinity groups and individuals have been arrested andsentenced to long prison sentences due to planning and executing anti-war sabotage, and spreading anti-war message. What can be done to support anarchist prisoners in Russia now? Antti Rautiainen lived in Russia 1999-2012, until he was deported, accused of ”endangering security of Russian federation”. In Russia, he was participating to anarchist initiatives to support prisoners, and other activities, and he has been involved in solidarity work also after his deportation Αναρχικοί και αντιφασίστες στις Ρωσικές φυλακές. Παρουσίαση στην κατάληψη Apertus στο Αγρίνιο, Ελλάδα,στις 21 Ιουνίου 2025. Η παρουσίαση θα γίνει στα Αγγλικά, με μετάφραση στα Ελληνικά. Από το 2017, η ρωσική ειδική υπηρεσία FSB έχει κινηθεί για να καταστρέψει τα αναρχικά και αντιφασιστικά κινήματα ανοίγοντας «αντιτρομοκρατικές» ποινικές υποθέσειςκαι βασανίζοντας τα συλληφθέντα άτομα για να ομολογήσουν. Οι κατασταλτικές επιχειρήσεις επιταχύνθηκαν μετά τη ρωσική εισβολή στην Ουκρανία το 2022, με πολλές αναρχικές ομάδες ή ατομικότητεςνα έχουν συλληφθεί και καταδικαστεί σε μακροχρόνιες ποινές φυλάκισης λόγω σχεδιασμού και εκτέλεσης αντιπολεμικού σαμποτάζ και διάδοσης αντιπολεμικώνμηνυμάτων. Τι μπορεί να γίνει για την υποστήριξη των αναρχικών κρατουμένωνστη Ρωσία τώρα;ΟAntti Rautiainen έζησε στη Ρωσία από το 1999 έως το 2012, μέχρι την απέλασή του, κατηγορούμενος για «έκθεση σε κίνδυνο της ασφάλειας της Ρωσικής Ομοσπονδίας». Στη Ρωσία, συμμετείχε σε αναρχικές πρωτοβουλίες για την υποστήριξη κρατουμένων και σε άλλες δραστηριότητες ενώ συμμετείχε σε διάφορες δράσεις αλληλεγγύης καιμετά την απέλασή του. Check out this podcast -as a blog: - as a video: https://youtu.be/f1hRyKwODlk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut [https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut] Twitter:https://twitter.com/ARautiainen [https://twitter.com/ARautiainen] Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHta3gaQwjTZBfULOxGykg Blog:https://avtonom.org/en/people/antti-rautiainen TikTok:tiktok.com/@anttiraut Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen [https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen] Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libertarian-life-coach/id1626178673 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen [https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen] Bio:https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile [https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile] Spotify suomeksi:https://open.spotify.com/show/1vZdprHa8waTlZh1ME8hMO Spotifyна русском:https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj

What Does Putin Want?

In the conservative neo-feudal world of Putin’s values, such bourgeois values as money and human life are of secondary importance, while land is of first-rate importance. Check out this podcast - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/what-does-putin-want - as a video: https://youtu.be/JOOSM3ZPSKA The original Russian text [https://avtonom.org/author_columns/chego-hochet-putin] was published in Avtonom.org, Translated into English for Freedom by Sean Patterson. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut [https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut] Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARautiainen [https://twitter.com/ARautiainen] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHta3gaQwjTZBfULOxGykg Blog: https://avtonom.org/en/people/antti-rautiainen TikTok: tiktok.com/@anttiraut Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen [https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen] Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libertarian-life-coach/id1626178673 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen [https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen] Ask: https://ask.fm/AnttiR [https://ask.fm/AnttiR] Bio: https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile [https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile] Spotify suomeksi: https://open.spotify.com/show/1vZdprHa8waTlZh1ME8hMO Spotify на русском: https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj

For Max

A veteran of the anarchist and anti-fascist movement of Ukraine, Maxim Butkevich, has been a prisoner of war of the Russian army for two years. There are several ways to be an anarchist. An anarchist can, for example, be an underground fighter and go into direct conflict with the authorities in every area. But an anarchist can also seek maximum opportunities to influence society through public means, but without trying to take power. This is why many anarchists get into journalism or human rights advocacy. Max did both, and excelled. Check out this podcast - as a blog: https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/max [https://youtu.be/KJBNbeSq2bM] - as a video: https://youtu.be/KJBNbeSq2bM⁠ [https://youtu.be/KJBNbeSq2bM] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut [https://www.instagram.com/anttiraut] Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARautiainen [https://twitter.com/ARautiainen] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmHta3gaQwjTZBfULOxGykg Blog: https://avtonom.org/en/people/antti-rautiainen TikTok: tiktok.com/@anttiraut Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen [https://www.twitch.tv/arautiainen] Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/libertarian-life-coach/id1626178673 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen [https://www.facebook.com/antti.i.rautiainen] Ask: https://ask.fm/AnttiR [https://ask.fm/AnttiR] Bio: https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile [https://anttirautiainen.livejournal.com/profile] Spotify suomeksi: https://open.spotify.com/show/1vZdprHa8waTlZh1ME8hMO Spotify на русском: https://open.spotify.com/show/0FBrDfnx09Rcmj65SXHHIj