Praxis Centre

[Robert Chandler]

I am forwarding an email I have just received.

Please reply NOT to me, but to Richard Greeman, the translator of Victor
Serge:
<rgreeman at gmail.com>

Robert Chandler


        Dear Friends,
> I enclose an urgent appeal from the Praxis Research and Education Center in
> Moscow to help 'Stop Political Terror in Russia' -- written after one of our
> close collaborators, a human rights lawyer, was murdered in a Moscow street
> last week. You can help by forwarding this appeal to others and by sending a
> personal protest to the Russian Federation Embassy. Please see email addresses
> and model protest letter below.
> Yours in solidarity, Richard Greeman, Secretary, Victor Serge Foundation,
> Montpellier, FR
> 
> Russian Embassies : russianembassy at mindspring.com (US)
> and office at rusemblon.org (UK)
> Model Letter :
> Mr. Ambassador, I am writing to express my concern about the Jan. 19
> assassination of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and young anti-fascist
> journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow in an atmosphere of increasing
> nationalist violence and legal impunity for killers. Please urge your
> Government to take strong and effective measures to rein in fascist violence,
> bring the perpetrators to justice and prevent future assaults on journalists,
> lawyers and human rights advocates ­ scandalous political crimes that
> seriously undermine the credibility of the Russian Federation in the
> international sphere. (signed, etc)
> 
> P.S.
> I also invite you to become part of an emergency email list I am creating to
> support Praxis and free thought against increasing repression in Russia. As
> many of you know, Praxis established the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow
> back in 1997 to make non-Stalinist left-wing books in different languages
> available for the first time to Russian scholars and activists. Over the past
> ten years, Praxis has translated and published for the first time in Russian
> several works of Victor Serge as well Voline's Unknown Revolution, Rubels Marx
> Against the Marxists collections of papers of our annual International
> Conferences in Russia and Ukraine. Praxis also participates in social
> movements fighting for human rights and freedoms, social justice, popular
> self-government, environmental justice etc and puts out a paper, Radical
> Thought (now on line since our printer refused to print our criticisms of the
> government). Last week, the authorities informed us that the Serge Library
> (with over 6,000 books) is being evicted from the premises we occupy in
> Moscow, where for both political and financial reasons space is extremely
> difficult to find.  
> Please visit our Praxis website (in five languages) at www.praxiscenter.ru
> <http://www.praxiscenter.ru>  If you wish your address to be added to this
> emergency list, please send me back this email with the words 'Support
> Praxis.'


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