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11 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Public statement by International Memorial
On 11 November 2021 we were informed by the Supreme Court that the General Prosecutor’s Office has requested the liquidation of International Memorial because of “systematic violations of the law on foreign agents”memo.ru/ru-ru/memorial…
The law obliges so-called foreign agents to signify their status in public statements. The court hearing is scheduled for 25 November 2021.
We have declared repeatedly that we consider the law on foreign agents an instrument of political persecution against independent civil society organisations, which should be annulled. While the law remains in force, however, we are obliged to comply.
In our view no legal basis exists for the liquidation of Memorial. The steps taken against us recently are based on a political decision to destroy Memorial, an organization which is dedicated to the history of political repression ...
...and to the protection of human rights in the present.

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11 Nov
Quick first take on the newest attack on @MemorialMoscow.
1. The letter today from the Russian Supreme Court about a hearing on 25 Nov. about the liquidation of Memorial implies that the case has been in the making for quite sole time. /2
2. That sheds new light on the physical attack on Memorial's office four weeks ago. Then a group of 30 young men stormed the scene of a film screening, followed by a 6 hour long interrogation of Memorial and its guest by the police and different security agencies. /3
Since then a special police unit for fighting economic crime is investigating Memorial on "financial irregularities". Memorial cooperates with this police unit and already provided a big number of documents. /4
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11 Nov
Erklärung von Memorial International
 
Am 11. November 2021 sind wir vom Obersten Gericht darüber informiert worden, dass die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft die Liquidation von Memorial International mit der Begründung  beantragt hat, …/2
…Memorial  habe „systematisch das Gesetz über „ausländische Agenten“ verletzt“. Dabei geht es um die verpflichtende Kennzeichnung öffentlicher Äußerungen. Die Gerichtsverhandlung ist für den 25. November angesetzt.
Wir haben wiederholt erklärt,…/3
…dass wir das Gesetz für ein Instrument poltischer Verfolgung unabhängiger zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen halten und dass wir auf seiner Annulierung bestehen. Solange das Gesetz aber in Kraft ist. Sind wir gezwungen, ihm Folge zu leisten./4
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17 Oct
The raid of Memorial’s office in Moscow on Thursday evening has left a new, in my opinion soon iconic picture illustrating the state of freedom in Putin’s Russia: The office doors of the country’s best-known rights defenders locked with handcuffs.
Now, two days ahead we, Memorial and many others, are still trying to make sense of this. This is, what I think so far.
1. The raid was planned and administered by state agencies, may be by the Kremlin.
2. All participants, the TV team of NTV, the group of young men, who stormed the office and the scene of the film screening, the police and other security agencies were working together.
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23 Jan
Navalny’s return, his arrest and the protest. A first quick thread
1. Navalny in Germany had rot make a difficult choice: to stay in exile and become insignificant or to return to stay significant (and may be even rise more), but under risk for his freedom and life. /2
2. I can’t imaging that Navalny and his team thought that his return and even his arrest might provoke a „revolutionary situation“ in Russia like we’ve seen in Ukraine earlier or Belarus now. he’s a too experienced politician for such a misjudgment. He’s playing the long game./3
3. He had to wage his wishes and the risk. His preferred the possibility of a rather long imprisonment to the perspective of insignificance in evil. He’s more than 20 y. younger than Putin. The next medium-term goal will be „smart voting“ in the Duma elections next September. /4
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23 Jan
It’s done. I’m a Sputnik now! I’ve just got my first shot of the Russin vaccine at a mobile vaccination station in Central Moscow. In there weeks I will get the second one. Now feeling a bit lightheaded, but that may be a psychological reaction. How was it and why I did it? /2
The station is located on the second floor of a big food court in a former trolleybus depot on Lesnaya Street near the Belorussian Railway Station. The for court itself was packed with people. Almost none wearing a mask. A paradise for each virus. The vaccination was very.../3
…well organised. Very nice and polite people, explaining everything. Smooth workflow. All in all I needed about an hour. Coming without any advanced reservation, I had to fill out some forms, see a doctor and get the shot. My foreign passport didn’t raise any questions./4
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8 Jun 20
Weiter hohe Ansteckungsraten in Moskau (und ganz RUS), trotzdem überstürzte Aufhebung des Lockdowns ab morgen. Was steckt dahinter?
Kurz und allgemein: Putin ist in der nächsten Legitimationskrise. Wie kam es? Zustimmung geht seit 2018 runter. /2
Die Wirkung der Krimannexion, die Putin in schwindelnde Höhen von 80% gehoben hatte, ist vorbei. Seit 2013 ist RUS in der Wirtschaftskrise. Seit Wiederwahl im März 2018 denken alle (Politiker/innen) zudem vorwiegend über das "Problem 2024" nach. /3
Also darüber, ob und wie Putin nach Ende der jetzigen Amtszeit die macht abgibt oder nicht. Deswegen drohte er zur "lahmen Ente" zu werden. Dieses Problem sollte Anfang des Jahres mit der Verfassungsänderung gelöst werden. P. kann wieder antreten. Mit ihm ist weiter zu rechen. /4
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