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‘We do not value what we have until it is lost’: articles from 1999–2015

The publication introduces a collection of articles from 1999–2015, including passages on war, Russian politics, Ukraine, and references to Rafis Kashapov.


What they have, they don't eat, what they lose, they cry.

"A collection of articles 1999-2015": read the book online completely and for free.

This book also mentions Rafis Kashapov - Prime Minister of the Government of Independent Tatarstan in Exile.

Excerpts from books:

"We are VERNULIS, mother! 

The first year of Putin's second term began with very gloomy predictions. As early as December 2003, ridiculous and misleading accusations were made of "inciting national and religious enmity" (art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to the Director of the Museum A.D.Saharov Yuri Samodurov, his associate . L.V.Veselovskaya And three artists, A.A.MihalchukI mean , A.G.Zulumyan and and N.Zolyan - the organizers of the art exhibition "Caution, religion" held at the Sakharov Museum in January 2003 and defeated by the Orthodox fascists. A criminal case was filed on the same criminal article against the radical-opposition democratic newspaper "Radical Politics". Finally, after the December 22 (deferred to January 12) trial in Naberezhnye Chelny, the defendant under Article 282 was again arrested for criticizing Orthodox fundamentalism. Rafis Kashapov - the leader of the Tatar community center of the Naberezhnye Chelny.

On December 15, the Moscow District Military Court began a trial on the fabricated charges of "spying" and "public disclosure" by the FSB. Mystery of the Attorney by Mikhail TrepaskinHe's being held in prison after a gun was "discovered" in his car thrown by the police in front of him. 

At the end of December, Moscow's courts in front of the Kremlin extended the terms of detention in the detention center on false charges of political prisoners. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and It was Platon Lebedev.

When the Second Russian-Chechen War began, when the agencies reported the names of the first killed field commanders known since the previous war - members of the radical anti-imperialist opposition in Russia, organizers of the first picket in support of the warring CHR sadly said among themselves that this was only the beginning. That the time will come - and we will have to count those who are already out of our own ranks - those with whom we stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder yesterday... " 

" It 's ...Freedom of the Caucasus - it is ultimately freedom not only for Caucasians, and even not only for Russians. This is a huge step towards the liberation and further progress of all mankind. As the famous Chechen bard sings

Timur Mutsurayev- What ?

The wind is blowing us free!

It's not scary to die for your country.

In battle , we 'll prove more than once:

You will be free, Caucasus!" 

"Boris Stomakhin has been - an outstanding non-systemic Russian liberal, the essence of Russian liberalism. He can undoubtedly be called the chief ideologist of the Russian non-systemic liberal. He was an associate of Valeria Novodvorskaya, founder and unchanging chairman of the Democratic Union party. In his articles, Boris Stomakhin writes frankly about what the liberals think, but they don't dare to speak out".

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