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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Georgia: Mass movement overthrows Shevardnadze regime

December 7, 2003 Leonid Serebrakov, cwi-cis

The “November revolution” in Georgia culminated in the overthrow of Eduard Shevardnadze. It was carried out under the flag of St George, first used in the 12th and 13th Century, when the then feudal country […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Oligarch’s arrest triggers crisis

November 6, 2003 Rob Jones, Moscow

Mikhail Khodorkovskii, one of Russia’s richest men and head of the giant company Yukos Oil, was taken from his private jet, on 25 October, by armed state security personnel. Khordokovskii’s arrest and the charges laid […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Putin’s hostage-takers policy leaves hundreds dead

October 28, 2002 Rob Jones, Moscow.

President Putin’s ’war against terror’ has brought the very terror to Moscow itself. Last week, a group of 50 heavily armed Chechens drove through Moscow in two minibuses and seized a theatre in the middle […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Show trial in Yaroslavi

September 28, 2002 Rob Jones, CWI Moscow, 28 September 2002

Earlier this week, we reported on the case of Sergei Kozlovskii, a socialist and gay rights activist facing political repression and huge legal fine.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Socialist and gay rights activist faces political repression and huge legal fine

September 24, 2002 Rob Jones, Moscow 24 September 2002

A young member of Socialist Resistance (the CWI section in the CIS), Sergei Kozlovskii, has been brought to court and sued for the sum of 50,000 rubles (almost 2,000 euros) by Tamara Dadianova, who is […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Anti-EU protesters beaten and arrested by Moscow police. Pictures.

May 31, 2002 CWI

See article posted on 30 May 2002. Please send protests, see article for details.

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Putin’s democratic credentials exposed as fraud

May 30, 2002 Press release by Socialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI section in Russia) 29 May 2002

Press release by the CWI in Russia on the arrests of anti-EU protesters in Moscow (see article, Anti-EU protesters beaten and arrested by Moscow police, posted on 29 May 2002). A number of the protesters […]

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ARCHIVE | Socialist Alternative was the CWI section in Russia and the CIS until 2019

Russia: Anti-EU protesters beaten and arrested by Moscow police

May 29, 2002 CWI

Police arrested 25 people protesting against the EU summit in Moscow today, Tuesday 28 May at 15 45 hrs (Moscow time). Reports so far indicate that five on them were badly beaten. The police are […]

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