People's Self-Defense (Russia)

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People's Self-Defense Народная самооборона

Leader	Collective leadership
Founder	Svyatoslav Rechkalov
Founded	August 11, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-08-11)^[1]
Banned	September 15, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-15)
Split from	Autonomous Action
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Newspaper	Pryamoe deystvie (Direct action)
Ideology	Anarchism Anarcho-communism Direct democracy Left-wing radicalism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Red Black
Slogan	"Scientific progress, direct democracy and anarchism" (Russian: "Научный прогресс, прямая демократия и анархизм")
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Website
naroborona.info
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The People's Self-Defense (Russian: Народная самооборона; Narodnaya samooborona) is a Russian anarchist organisation.

The organization emerged in 2013 as a result of the split of Autonomous Action, the largest Russian anarchist organization at the time. At the beginning it was called Autonomous Action (Social Revolutionary) (AD-SR; Russian: Автономное действие (социал-революционное); АД-СР; Avtonomnoye deystviye (sotsial-revolyutsionnoye), AD-SR), and in 2015 it was renamed "People's Self-Defense".^[2]^[3]^[4] One of its leaders was Svyatoslav Rechkalov.^[4]

The organization positions itself as a "non-partisan socio-political organization" and an anarchist media platform that publishes articles on anarchism and news about actions. It was also involved in the protection of residents of the evicted hostels, the fight against employers who do not pay salaries to workers. Members of the organization were on duty in the apartments that the collectors tried to take away from the residents of Moscow.^[5]^[4]^[6]

A report received by RIA Novosti from law enforcement agencies says that from December 2017 to December 2018, supporters of People's Self-Defense carried out 247 "actions of an extremist nature" in 40 cities of Russia, including one terrorist act in Arkhangelsk, one fact of public justifications for terrorist activities and five cases of hooliganism and vandalism.^[7]

On March 14, 2018, Svyatoslav Rechkalov was detained for two days. According to him, he was beaten, tortured with electric shocks, demanding to reveal the names of other anarchists and to confess his involvement in their actions. After his release, Rechkalov received political asylum in France.^[4]

In September 2022, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court recognized the People's Self-Defense as a terrorist organization.^[8]

References

^ "Заявление московской группы Автономного Действия по поводу сайта "автоном-инфо"" [Statement by the Moscow group of Autonomous Action regarding the website "autonomous-info"] (in Russian). 23 August 2013.
^ "ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ" [ORGANIZATION] (in Russian).
^ "26-27 октября 2013 года прошел внеочередной XIII(I) съезд организации Автономное Действие" [On October 26-27, 2013, an extraordinary XIII (I) congress of the Autonomous Action organization was held] (in Russian).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Волчек, Дмитрий (8 March 2020). "Любые попытки организоваться заканчиваются в подвале ФСБ" [Any attempts to organize end up in the basement of the FSB]. Svoboda (in Russian).
^ "На лучшее никаких надежд нет" [No hope for the best]. Meduza (in Russian).
^ "Разгром русских анархистов" [Defeat of Russian anarchists]. Meduza (in Russian).
^ "Анархисты провели в России почти 250 экстремистских акций в 2018 году" [Anarchists carried out almost 250 extremist actions in Russia in 2018] (in Russian). 8 April 2019.
^ "Суд в Челябинске запретил анархистское движение "Народная самооборона"". Interfax.ru (in Russian). 13 September 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-15.

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Blowing Up Russia (2002)
Putin's Russia (2004)
The Revolution That Wasn't (2008)
12 Who Don't Agree (2009)
Putin. Corruption (2011)
Term (2014)
Putin. War (2014)
Chaika (2015)
He Is Not Dimon to You (2017)
Putin's Palace (2021)
Navalny (2022)

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