________________________________________________________________________________ "mailradek" project is a non-regular posting of subjective commentaries on political themes. texts have no copyright and can be reprinted, translated, distributed without a special authors' permission. All previous issues (in English and Russian) can be found at the new site WWW.MAILRADEK.REMA.RU. There are also many info about the latest events in radical culture and the regularly changing large texts on actual themes. Everybody who doesn't receive it can send a "subscribe english mailradek" or "subscribe russian mailradek" (a more often and full version) e-mail to kireev@glasnet.ru to be included into the mailing list. Address: Russia 117333 Moscow, Vavilova 48-237, tel.: (095) 137 71 31, e-mail: kireev@glasnet.ru. text no. 84, part 2 26.10-23.11.1999 When discussing terror, the concern of possible casualities among strangers is very important. First, no one is a stranger, everyone is involved in the situation: everyone buys food at shops, pays taxes, receives information from the mass-media, and after all speaks on politics. If a man is ready for some repression from the state, why not bear the same from terrorists? Especially as the terrorists are much less dangerous. There used to be a program of symbolic terror, once developed by circle actionists sometime in 93 (which included extermination of pregnant women, old people, children to demonstrate the relativeness of morals as such). The other time, closer to present times, one man suggested to blow up the Duma's entrance, in order to kill not the deputies themselves, but the people who serve them (such as guards, petitioners, ). In any case, terror must target not the personalities as such, but the principle of power. Anyway, the talks about terrorists are always the same. A stupid commoner always asks: what for? What did they want? And what did they get? Why wasted their young precious lives? If there's a final opportunity to choose, then what we see is a final decision, and those who have made it in favor of terrorism, ask us meaningful questions, and we, who never sacrificed a thing for our beliefs, cannot ask them any. Oleg Kireev INFO: A major FSB operation dedicated to Case 772 (The case) took place on the night of November 16. Searches were conducted at the apartments of Larisa Shiptsova, leader of a Trotskist organization Sergey Biyts, the journalist Andrey Stvolinsky, Andrey Sokolov, the father of Andrey Sokolov and Sergey Yegorov, a member of RKSM(b). All they, including Tatyana Nekhorosheva and Andrey Sadovnichy (who were present in Shiptsova's apartment during the search) were taken to night interrogation, except Larisa, who refused to go without her 3 months' old child. Instead of that, the officials again confiscated her computer and that of Stvolinsky's, and they also took away nearly all Sokolov's clothes and some acetone samples of his hands in order to find chemicals. They were looking for NRA documentation and explosives. Sokolov was arrested in the metro station , and that means, his movements around Moscow had been monitored. The lawyers suggest, the action was due to the court session on the case of RVS, which was scheduled for November 17. The trial on Kochkarev's case took place at November 26th in Lefortovsky regional court. He was sentenced to six months of a strict regime imprisonment (the prosecutor demanded for nine). A group of anarchist and komsomol activists has been picketing the court building before the trial with the slogans and like. The cops were, for sure, against them. Kochkarev looked badly and spoke hardly, his face was swollen, his eyes were red. He refused from the previous evidences where accused the cops in throwing him marijuana up, but nevertheless denied the accusation. The cops present in the hall have been standing up threatenly everytime when he had to speak about that. A flagrantly absurd accusation told, he was caught right on the street just because of a suspicious look and bought marijuana at the Kursky railroad station from . Noone told about his visit to Vladimir Slivyak (see the previous mailradek infos), about Slivyak's own interrogation, about the threats, about the FSB interrogations, about the special means of interrogations using (which was witnessed by the experts), the time of the arrest was pointed out for sure uncorrectly (22.05 instead of 16.00). There was an expertise datas that Kochkarev wasn't a drug addict, and there were a plenty of extenuating circumstances. The judge didn't mask her antipathies and made many leading questions. That's because justice is not asleep. A group of anarchist activists painted a few Moscow areas with anti-war and anti-parties graffiti at evening 26th. It was one of the first actions of an campaign which is on the run and a starting point for an anti-war campaign. The workers have carefully erased a huge writing () from a Darwin museum's wall just a few days later, and the writings and like are still adorning the advertising billboards and the walls of houses. The arrests of Ter-Oganian and Pimenov, conducted by Interpol in Turkey, as reported by at the beginning of the month, were a canard. Pimenov is phoning every day, and he says that there weren't any sanctions aganist him and Avdey, except for a short talk with Interpol representatives, during which a couple of formal questions were asked, like or Besides, a Gathering of Revolutionary Writers is going to take place in Prague in the middle of December. Pimenov is currently working on it. The address of the organization committee is redkhmer@mail.ru A group of anarcho-activists celebrated The Militia Day on the 10 of November, calling it the Day of Open Doors. Leaflets were distributed in elevators and entrances of various apartment blocks, calling upon the residents to uninstall the intercoms and not to be afraid of strangers, against whom the authorities create locked doors and guarding teams. A mini-edition of the new record by Pasha Shevtchenko's rap project is on sale. It differs from the previous album by a more advanced technical rendition (it was made with a computer, unlike the first album, which was made with a toy synthesiser) and by more advanced music. Now it is not social pathetics in poetically complicated lyrics ( or ), but rude surrealism () A Pulp Fiction performance took place on the 27 of November at the mailradek headquarters. Travolta's part was played by the aforementioned Shevchenko, Jackson's part by the honourable Comandante of the Krayeved movement Zakhar Mukhin, Bruce Willis's part by the acting Comandante of the Krayeved movement Dmitry Model. The Bombshelter project was taking place from the 30 of October to the 4 of November in Novosibirsk, arranged by the Novosibirsk Soros Fund branch. 12 artists from various cities spent 4 days in a bombshelter without any clock or watches. The project was particularly interesting because of the experimentality of the social event, and because of the way the communication and creativity flowered under unusual conditions. And we can easily say that the creativity was pure manifestation of the Anonymous and Free Art. ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org