A-Infos (en) Russia, avtonom: What Not to Kiss: Trends in Order and Chaos Episode 94 (February 26) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

1. Year of the war ---- The main date of the past week is February 24 - the year 
of the war in Ukraine. This sad anniversary was celebrated in one way or another 
by the whole world. American President Biden visited Kyiv for the first time. 
Putin once again threatened the world with nuclear weapons, announcing the 
withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the treaty on the reduction of 
strategic offensive arms. The President's initiative, making the world a little 
closer to nuclear war, was unanimously approved by the State Duma and the 
Federation Council - everything that is enough to know about the Russian 
parliament. ---- China has released its proposals to end the Russian-Ukrainian 
war - thus denoting its readiness to be included in the situation. Another vote 
was held at the UN, which showed that the opinion of the world community is 
approximately the same as a year ago: 141 countries supported the Ukrainian 
resolution on the principles for ending the conflict, 7 opposed it (Russia, 
Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea, Syria, Mali and Nicaragua), 13 - did not vote. And 
23 abstained: India, China, Iran, post-Soviet countries closely connected with 
the Russian Federation, some Asian, African and Latin American countries.

Behind these diplomatic exercises, we must not forget that the meat grinder in 
eastern Ukraine takes hundreds and thousands of lives every day on both sides, 
and there is no rational justification for this.

During the year, up to a million people left Russia, but, nevertheless, the 
resistance within the country has not been broken. On February 24, in many cities 
of Russia, people carried flowers to monuments connected in one way or another 
with Ukraine, some were detained for picketing.

We were pleased to receive a message from Omsk: we had not been given information 
from this city for a long time, and on the anniversary of the war they sent 
photos of anti-war leaflets of left-wing activists.

In total, a little less than 20,000 people were detained in Russia during 
protests against the war in a year, a little less than 500 people were prosecuted 
for their anti-militarist position, including a little over a hundred for setting 
fire to military registration and enlistment offices, damaging rails and similar 
actions.

2 President's Ass
Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is increasingly attracting attention. Because his 
private army is one of the most successful paramilitary groups in the Russian 
Federation. Being in the spotlight, Prigogine loved to speak out.

There is an interesting point in his comments that is not paid attention to. 
About why there is a war in Ukraine, Prigozhin replies from time to time: "We 
didn't invent this war." But if the motherland is already at war, all the 
peasants must go under the gun.

The only question is, what is homeland? For Prigozhin, the homeland is a system 
in which his companies have monopolized the market for school meals in many 
cities. Parents of schoolchildren are often active people in Russia, they made 
scandals because of the quality of food. And Prigozhin's companies feed hundreds 
of thousands of security officials who are not used to protesting publicly. And 
Prigozhin's companies are also gaining access to minerals in African countries 
where his private army is fighting, apparently under the wing of the Russian 
special services.

That is, the homeland for Prigogine is the place where the recent criminal got 
used to cutting money in billions. So that the cash golden cow does not die, 
Prigogine is ready to lay down hundreds of thousands of lives.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prigozhin's colleague, who has repeatedly called himself "Putin's 
infantryman", recently made an interesting statement: they say, the independence 
of Chechnya would be nice, but unrealistic, because Chechnya is a subsidized region.

In the mid-2010s, the author of this issue came to a strange event in Moscow, 
hosted by a murky organization connected with Chechen business. The conference 
was called "Investment attractiveness of Chechnya". They saw her off at a hotel 
opposite the Kremlin, some Chechen regional minister arrived. I saw how more than 
500 entrepreneurs voluntarily came there, who surrounded the Chechen minister, 
selling their ideas - from cryptocurrency mining to the supply of dairy products. 
The logic of entrepreneurs: a lot of money is poured into Chechnya, if Ramzan 
likes it, it will be easy to work.

With such a boom in business, why is Chechnya still subsidized? Maybe everything 
would be better if the head of the subsidized region did not hang a Louis Vuitton 
punching bag for tens of thousands of dollars in his office, did not invite the 
son of UFC champions to the 15th anniversary, did not build one palace for his 
official wife, and the neighboring palace - for informal?

Yuri Shevchuk, one of the best musicians of Russian rock, was fined for 
"discrediting the army" for the phrase "the motherland is not the president's 
ass, which must be kissed all the time." Shevchuk recently talked about his 
interest in the legacy of Pyotr Kropotkin, and also released a new anti-war song 
"Motherland, Come Home." I recommend.

3. Old age and work
Recently, a scandal erupted in Japan: one of the economists said that it would be 
good for older people to make themselves hara-kiri in order to unload the social 
system. Then he justified himself, saying that he was misunderstood.

This year, Russia will not raise pensions for working pensioners: they explain 
this by the fact that now the elderly residents of the territories annexed from 
Ukraine have to be paid, there is not enough money. Since the beginning of the 
year, France has been rocked by protests over raising the retirement age from 62 
to 64.

Life expectancy and overall quality of life are on the rise around the world. And 
capitalist logic assumes that citizens will try to let go later.

Of course, we support protests against raising the retirement age: at least until 
the moment when states stop spending billions of dollars on the arms race. As 
long as there are super-rich people who concentrate huge resources in their hands 
for extremely dubious merits. As long as the above exists, it cannot be said that 
society does not have funds to support the elderly.

If work becomes more creative, there will be more self-management and less 
hierarchy in labor collectives, and the length of the working day will be reduced 
- obviously, people will be ready to retire later.

4. We invite you to cooperate
We, Autonomous Action, have published instructions on how to cooperate with us. 
Since in the current conditions we are a media group, we are looking for authors, 
designers, IT specialists, artists, translators. People who know how to work with 
video. We are ready to help with the coverage of any libertarian activity: from a 
cooperative to a lecture hall or anonymous posting of leaflets. We also have our 
own campaign materials: both paper and available for download from the site.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the 
participants of "Autonomous Action" give anarchist assessments of current events. 
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Issue No. 94 prepared by Leaves

https://avtonom.org/news/chto-ne-nuzhno-celovat-trendy-poryadka-i-haosa-epizod-94-26-fevralya
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