Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 13

I don't know if any Western media reported about yesterdays founding of the exile/anti-Russian "Alliance of the #Indigenous Peoples" at a meeting in Istanbul. An organization "aimed at dismantling #Russia and reviving nation-states in their ancestral territories".
While the visions of participant groups are far from unproblematic, it anyway seems like a significant event given the long list of minorities represented in the alliance. Also it is interesting to note the role of the Russian language for amalgamating anti-Russian sentiment.
https://t.me/alliance_freedom

"The conversation about #defeat is taking off in #Russia, and it is important to untie the idea of defeat from the fears of catastrophe. Whose defeat it will be? This is another question."

Important thread by Russian sociologist Greg Yudin: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1656074583559262208.html

"Unknown patriots with a twinkle congratulated the criminal authorities on Victory Day.
On the morning of May 8, 2023, in Novosibirsk, on the territory of the aircraft factory of the Sukhoi Company, unknown partisans destroyed a SU-24 combat aircraft. The aircraft was on the site of aviation equipment intended for repair and modernization.
...
The guerrillas burned the warplane to show that this war must be over. You cannot fight for peace by destroying children and women in a neighboring country."
https://t.me/legionoffreedom/769

Today I cried a few times while running in the forest while listening to the first episodes of the podcast series "Next year in Moscow" by Arkady Ostrovsky of The Economist. It is about the experience of Russian emigrees and so far I must say it is really good. Indeed, this is only about liberal, middle-class Russians. But I don't see that bias as a problem, or rather the production makes it explicitly problematic, connecting political naivety with its economic condition. The interviews look back at the carefree middle-class optimism of the early Putin years – and this is what makes certain parallels to the "Western" trajectory even more uncanny.

https://www.economist.com/moscowpod

/r/AskHistorians is so good, check out this Monday Methods post:
"Was Cleopatra Black? And what it means to talk about historical race"
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13bv06n/was_cleopatra_black_and_what_it_means_to_talk/

@laxsill haha, har extremt oklara minnen av att MALTA spelade nån sorts roll där

In a week I'll be in Belgrade! So much looking forward to return there and also to meet a few of you at this conference: https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/the-digital-green-society-2/

Feminist Antiwar Resistance (Russia):

"Watching the rhetoric of Russian television, ... I sometimes shudder from a strange recognition. What they say about the war and Ukraine is almost identical to what they often say about women victims of domestic or sexualized violence.
She herself is to blame, she herself asked for it, she herself attacked and was the first to start, and I only defended myself, she wanted to leave me, she cheated on me, she behaved badly, and I raised her, she did not obey me, she behaved depravedly, she's hysterical, she's crazy, she's a drug addict, she's not who she claims to be. And the beatings she drew for the photo, pretending. She's mine, I do what I want with her.
She did not comply with the Minsk agreements, she wanted to be the first to drop the bomb on us, she sold out to the West, she supports “gender freedoms”, she needs to be educated, demilitarized and denazified, Nazis and drug addicts live in her. And she painted the corpses for the photo, these are fakes. She is ours, we want to do whatever we want with her.
...
Do we need a world where the rapist is the hero?
To me - no.
I believe in the victims."

SOURCE: https://t.me/femagainstwar/8091

"Meet the Russian partisans fighting back against Putin’s regime"
https://www.intellinews.com/meet-the-russian-partisans-fighting-back-against-putin-s-regime-277798/

Glad to see the car of nazbol warmonger and pro-Putin propagandist Prilepin blown up in Nizhny Novgorod this morning. While Prilepin may survive his injuries, it's unsure if he has any legs left. What's sure is that it's getting less safe to be a Nazi influencer in Russia.
Prilepin's body guard (and fellow LDNR war criminal) died in the explosion. However, the bomb did not explode until after Prilepin's daughter had left the car; it was probably remote controlled.

#БОАК writes on Telegram: "We are not sure whether the attempt on the warmonger was organized by revolutionaries, however, we consider both Prilepin and his bodyguard legitimate targets for elimination." 💣

@kevinrothrock It's weird that nethier ISW nor Galeotti nor other seems to have contemplated the possibility that non-state actors (i.e. partisans within Russia) can use drones.

Btw, that the ISW are known to be good at analyzing a battlefield from the army standpoint doesn't necessarily make them good at analyzing other domains.

@OldSquida2 Yes. Actually I found that manual as it was reposted on BOAK's Telegram channel. The politically different partisan groups do exchange a lot of information.

Already in mid-April, partisans in Russia declared a drone campaign against the Putin regime: ВОССТАНИЕ МАШИН ("rise of the machines"). The call and the manual has since been circulated by separatist, anarchist and other resistant groups in Russia. It is likely to escalate, well timed with Ukraine's upcoming offensive on the battlefield. 🏴 🔥
https://t.me/asmodaus_om/786
https://t.me/BO_AK_reborn/2294
https://t.me/freedom_chuvashia/513

@b9AcE More pics of БОАК solidarity on May Day: https://t.me/BO_AK_reborn/2298

"Social Movements in 1980s Sweden: Contention in the Welfare State".
A new academic volume nuancing the idea of a conflict-free Swedish model and the image of a right-wing decade.
Available for free download here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27370-4

The drones against Kremlin probably did not come from Ukraine, given that Russia has installed air defense circles around Moscow. So far I can agree with the ISW. But why should this mean that it was a Russian false-flag? Couldn't the drones have taken off inside the Moscow area, operated by any of the partisan groups fighting the Putin regime?

Here's how easy this is:

"Web 1.0 introduced read-only websites.
Web 2.0 added social media.
So it's inevitable that Web 3.0 will bring us transparent nanospores we hijack for direct-brain control of the megasphere."

You can recap web history and then say it leads to something, but you're making that thing up because you probably have a financial incentive to do so, and any recap is probably selective and inaccurate anyway.

Given today's report of a drone attack against the Kremlin it's interesting to note this manual for partisan use of drones has been circulated on Russian dissident Telegram channels for a couple of weeks already: https://t.me/freedom_chuvashia/513

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Organization_of_Anarcho-Communists

Mayday solidarity with the anti-war partisans of БОАК from Stockholm.