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This letter was written by Larisa Shiptsova-Romanova shortly after she had been sentenced. The latest news from Krasnodar: Larisa is free. Comrades from Krasnodar report: "one of the judges who took part in the cassational trial on regional level, has expressed his own opinion and sent a complaint to regional court presidium. The latter accepted it. The Presidium cancelled the verdict of 20 July by administering punishment not connected with imprisoning. That means a suspended sentence: It's still hard to say who has rendered such a service. The lawyer says: "We do work". But that can be also a FSB intrigue, or maybe, in fact, the objectivity of one of the judges from the Presidium or something else. Anyway, we hope that it's not a false report and Larisa will soon meet her kinsfolk, friends and comrades in arms. And her little daughter will soon see the world as it is for the first time. LARS' LETTER TO COMRADES FROM INVESTIGATION CELL Hi to my dear friends and all people who feel worried about the "Krasnodar epopee". I'm writing after a show performed by the court which resulted in my imprisonment. Since the court session was open, many people could watch the case disintegrating - all their fake evidences were clearly seen. Nepshikuyev had changed his testimonial statements again (now he refuses the fact that he intended to blow up Kondrat's office - he wanted just to blow something up, for fun); Randina, who was transferred to witnesses, claims to have received some parcel (containing those damned grenades) at my place from some people whom she doesn't remember since she was in state of intoxication, and I (Larisa) was asleep at that time; witness Platonov has testified the fact of oppression brought upon him by FSB and judge Osipenko: and things of the kind. Material evidences from my apartment were also produced: soldering irons, wires, a dirty finger-size empty can - the very can from which the dreaded experts have managed to get 2 grammes of explosive materials (they must have scraped it): I'm not going to describe all that fuss - let the eye-witnesses do that - the Muscovites and Krasnodarians who came to support me. I also had many and not always pleasant contacts with the media. At first I didn't want that, but FSB continued to badger my family even after the end of the trial: threatening my mother and step-father, searching my relatives, trying to falsely charge my husband Ilya Romanov, interrogating and tracing my lawyer Markelov. At the same time, just as I expected, the secret police began searching through the leftist radicals. I only established contacts with the media because these rascals are like roaches hiding in their holes in the light, and i wanted to denounce FSB, their ways and also to show that there's something in the world that they cannot either crush or suppress. Moreover, i openly proclaimed my anarcho-communist ideas. In the freedom, together with other materials about the gathered by me, all these things are presented in the rough copy of my last word. I hope that the people who possess these papers will publish it together with this letter. The "just and democratic" result was my 4 years sentence, and 3 years for Nepshikuyev. By the way, here's a good lesson for all the future "nepshikuyevs" actively cooperating with court. What about me, i'm pretty fed up with my relatives' tears and liberal-democratic snivel. I have to survive both physically and morally, thus fighting on. Then i had to spend some hours in the escort truck outside the jailhouse - the prison authorities didn't want me, because, according to the law, they cannot take pregnant women after 28 weeks (i had 32 at the moment). The escort was already going to take me to 1st department, and then to Ust-Labinsk to Camp 3. I liked that, for i couldn't even think of returning to the jailhouse. But suddenly some important Krasnodarian man - colonel Afanasiev - called and by personal order made the doctors take me to the temporary investigation cell, directly violating the law. So now I'm writing from the jailhouse infirmary. At first I had some confrontation with the cell inspector, but then it all settled up in a few days - I try not to quarrel, but neither I let oppress me. Now i'm occupying a good place - the lower berth near the table. My comrades had aided by the third day, so i'm quite accustomed now. Our cell is a transit one, so we don't have much time to sleep, we receive and send jail-mail: letters and parcels between cells and buildings. There's a crazy woman in our cell, she's in a constant hysterics, she's urinating uncontrollably and stays awake for two days in a row. We all have trouble with her. Most of my cellmates are having their second sentence, so we're keeping the cell in order; there are no lesbians, we guard the cell and contribute our belongings to the common stock. The life is more free, compared to FSB penitentiaries - food is easy to get, we communicate through the personnel (prisoners who perform small services for keeping the jailhouse). The men support us a little by sending tea, cigarettes and candies. But at the same time i see people disintegrating of cancer, gangrene, sepsis. There are no remedies, and the local doctors can't even take a blood sample. Outing walks are 20-30 minutes long, the people are choking in their cells. The media, cops and politicians describe those who are imprisoned as marginal elements and criminals, and the pseudo-leftist weenies call them lumpens. But they are our people - humiliated and oppressed. All the workers whom they deprived of their rights, work, wages; and thus they are forced to commit small crimes to feed their families, their kids. Yes, the rules of life here are hard, and even cruel, but there is also real mutual aid - when people give their medicines to those who feel even worse and those who have nothing; when they altogether declare a boycott against the authorities' illegal treatment etc. But those who don't care about their people, who doesn't know about their needs and sorrows, will never fell the class hatred and the necessity of revolutionary violence. Aesthetes refined and fed by authorities can only declare abstract humanism and personal rights without even understanding what it is, and without knowing that there will be constant humiliation and oppression, until the system of state terrorizing. But it is impossible to bring down the system without physical extermination of those who support this system: politicians, cops and other scum, who will never give away the power at will. I'm writing these lines - not just writing, i suffered it - the terror that is brought by anyone possessing power to any common man. I perfectly understand that these ideas can only be supported by the minority, even among the leftists; moreover, even those who perform "leftist protection" do think of me as of someone suffering the complex of inferiority; the others even call me a provocateur among "normal" leftists. Let them be - i follow my own way, i hope that the leftists are going to have some social roots sometime, and there will be more and more people, whose life and fate are unbreakably connected both to social revolutionary processes and to their own people. I hope that the letter will be published together with the last word, partially if necessary. I also want my second letter from the FSB investigation cell to be published together with the large article. 26.07.99, Revolutionary hails from Larisa Romanova translation: Alexey Kovalev INFO: The last mailradek told about the arrest of the Anti-nuclear campaign director Vladimir Slivyak. it's known, the militioners who refused to call their names were forcing him to tell where is Jacov Kochkarev, who was a defense's witness during the "Krasnodar case". Kochkarev (who was at Slivyak's when the latter got arrested) was taken the same day. He's still imprisoned and is accused in transporting drugs. We definitely know, he didn't have any, and suppose the cops gave him the same marijuana package which they promised to "find" in Slivyak's bag. FSB which is investigating the latest explosions at Moscow was, probably, trying to work out several versions, so Pimenov first, and than Slivyak and Kochkarev were the victims of such "work". This all makes even the news about the "real" Tchetchen terrorsists successfully "found" very doubtful. The Russian Helsinki group of human rights defense is gonna pay for the Kochkarev's lawyer's work. Slivyak plans to provoke a case against the militioners who tried to arrest him. Dmitrii Pimenov and Avdei Ter-Oganyan are in Prague, they're going to look for a political asyl. 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