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=== "Freedom!" - a call for violance... ===
 
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According to the FSB paid linguistic expert the GDM magazine "[http://yhrp.blogspot.no/p/blog-page_04.html Youth Human Rights]" was full of hidden messages and calls to violently change the constitutional order, and violated the integrity of the Russian Federation. Articles on torture and inhuman treatments would be a defamation of police and damaged their image.<ref name="7x7" /> Indeed the "Youth Human Rights newspaper" reported on cases of police violence and torture, on trials against activists, human rights work and current issues<ref>http://yhrp.blogspot.de as of June 16, 2014</ref>.
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According to the FSB paid linguistic expert the GDM magazine "[http://yhrp.blogspot.no/p/blog-page_04.html Youth Human Rights]" was full of hidden messages and calls to change the constitutional order, and violated the integrity of the Russian Federation. Articles on torture and inhuman treatments would be a defamation of police and damaged their image.<ref name="7x7" /> Indeed the "Youth Human Rights newspaper" reported on cases of police violence and torture, on trials against activists, human rights work and current issues<ref>http://yhrp.blogspot.de as of June 16, 2014</ref>.
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Actually the only argument offered in the case against GDM concerns publications in the human rights newspaper, and points out the quality of the FSB "expertise". This reads as follows: "The texts and illustrating materials in "Youth Human Rights newspaper" contain special linguistic means of visual manipulation ... "speaking" punctuation marks - the exclamation marks in the slogan 'Freedom!!!'. The hidden calls in the texts and headlines of the 'Youth Human Rights newspaper' for violently change the constitutional order and violation of the integrity of the Russian Federation consist in the repeated demands for 'freedom' as well as demands for 'rights'."<ref name="7x7 freedom">http://7x7-journal.ru/post/42779 as of June 15, 2014</ref>
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Tatiana Kulbakina writes to this on May 30, 2014 in the journal 7x7: "Actually I am not up to comment this here. The absurdity is obvious as I guess. Basically, the whole examination is made in the same style." The linguistic expertise was composed by Doctor of Philology Larissa Gorban, who 2008 received her doctoral level for the paper "Navy lexis of the Russian language in synchrony and diachrony". She boldly claims in her expertise "GDM shows characteristics of a foreign agent".<ref name="7x7 freedom" />
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Revision as of 19:10, 28 June 2014

Friends of us, human rights activists from Murmansk, Russia, who are also involved to the Nuclear Heritage Network, joined actions, projects and contributed practically to our international anti-nuclear work, are currently faced to pressure by authorities. Their organization "Humanistic Youth Movement" (GDM) is accused to act as "foreign agent" as they receive funding from abroad and their activities are considered "political" by the prosecutor. This status would cause the closure of the organization as it is practically impossible to continue work with that label. The case was forced by the Russian secret service FSB, although in an earlier inspection by the Ministry of Justice the final reports stated there was no indication to consider GDM a "foreign agent". On July 8, 2014 they will have the public hearing in the Murmansk District Court.

In Germany, a solidarity campaign has been started to spread the word about the case, and also to support other concerned NGOs in Russia like Ecodefense which was declared a "foreign agent" in the middle of June. We also want to collect money to support the legal costs like lawyers, court costs and fines that these NGOs are posed to. Please support our Russian friends with solidarity statements, articles or financial contributions.

bank account: Spenden & Aktionen
purpose: "Soli Russland"
IBAN: DE29 5139 0000 0092 8818 06
BIC: VBMHDE5FXXX
bank: Volksbank Mittelhessen

Humanistic Youth Movement

At the end of May it became public that a lawsuit has been filed against the Murmansk human rights organization "Humanistic Youth Movement" (GDM - Гуманистическое движение молодежи). The Russian secret service FSB, formerly known as KGB, had observed the NGO, commissioned a scientific expertise to analyse articles in their magazine and demanded the local prosecution to initiate the case against the activists. In cooperation with groups for instance from Germany since years Humanistic Youth Movement arranged conferences and gatherings such as the "dialogue of cultures", "Vostok Forum" or the school exhibition "Anne Franke. Lessons of history". Annual summer academies with different topics based on self-organization and self-education were important international meeting points for politically interested and engaged young people.[1] With the "urban fest" the possibly last conference organized by the NGO took place in the beginning of June, if FSB and prosecution should push through their aim[2].


"Freedom!" - a call for violance...

According to the FSB paid linguistic expert the GDM magazine "Youth Human Rights" was full of hidden messages and calls to change the constitutional order, and violated the integrity of the Russian Federation. Articles on torture and inhuman treatments would be a defamation of police and damaged their image.[1] Indeed the "Youth Human Rights newspaper" reported on cases of police violence and torture, on trials against activists, human rights work and current issues[3].

Actually the only argument offered in the case against GDM concerns publications in the human rights newspaper, and points out the quality of the FSB "expertise". This reads as follows: "The texts and illustrating materials in "Youth Human Rights newspaper" contain special linguistic means of visual manipulation ... "speaking" punctuation marks - the exclamation marks in the slogan 'Freedom!!!'. The hidden calls in the texts and headlines of the 'Youth Human Rights newspaper' for violently change the constitutional order and violation of the integrity of the Russian Federation consist in the repeated demands for 'freedom' as well as demands for 'rights'."[4]

Tatiana Kulbakina writes to this on May 30, 2014 in the journal 7x7: "Actually I am not up to comment this here. The absurdity is obvious as I guess. Basically, the whole examination is made in the same style." The linguistic expertise was composed by Doctor of Philology Larissa Gorban, who 2008 received her doctoral level for the paper "Navy lexis of the Russian language in synchrony and diachrony". She boldly claims in her expertise "GDM shows characteristics of a foreign agent".[4]



  1. 1.0 1.1 http://7x7-journal.ru/post/42651 as of May 28, 2014
  2. http://7x7-journal.ru/item/43317 as of June 12, 2014
  3. http://yhrp.blogspot.de as of June 16, 2014
  4. 4.0 4.1 http://7x7-journal.ru/post/42779 as of June 15, 2014