Free Russian internationalist Igor Kuznetsov!
John McDonnell MP and other protesters demand release of jailed labour movement activists outside the Russian embassy in London, 2022 In September 2021 Russian socialist and trade unionist Igor Kuznetsov was arrested for “inciting mass disorder” (though the Telegram messenger system!) Two months he was also charged with participation in an “extremist community”, the socialist organisation Left Resistance. Now, in a move reminiscent of the treatment of dissidents in the late Soviet Union , Kuznetsov has been sent to a psychiatric institution. The Serbsky Centre to which he has been sent is the...