Agency of the antimilitarist action

No. 22 * October 1, 1999

Edited by the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA),

an association of the Transnational Radical Party.

Russian and English editions.

Published with support of the "Open Society Institute.

Assistance Foundation".

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SERGEI KIRIENKO JOINS THE RADICAL PETITION

Moscow, September 4. Militants of the Radical Party and of the

ARA took part in the Non-Official Moscow festival, organised by

the public movement "Moscow Alternative" of Sergei Kirienko. A

table for collecting signatures and an information stand of

radicals were placed in Triumfal'naya square. During the

meeting Nikolai Khramov, Russian co-ordinator of the

Transnational Radical Party and ARA Secretary, also took the

floor. At this action the radicals managed to collect 484

signatures under the petition "The Third millennium without

conscription slavery" and 140.80 roubles of contributions. The

leader of the "New Force" movement Sergei Kirienko has also

signed the radical petition.

NIKOLAI KHRAMOV MEETS THE ELECTORS IN THE 25-TH DISTRICT

Moscow, September 7-10. ARA Secretary Nikolai Khramov took part

in a series of street tables, organised by the radicals to

collect signatures under the petition "The Third millennium

without conscription slavery" - near Leninskii Prospekt,

Profsoyuznaya, Akademicheskaya and Universitet metro stations.

These metro stations are situated in the territory of the

electoral district 25 for the elections to the Moscow City Duma

(Nikolai Khramov took part in these elections in December

1997). In 3 days Khramov met more than 700 electors of this

district; they joined the radical petition for the abolition of

conscription.

THE ASSEMBLY OF RADICALS OF MOSCOW CONFIRMS THE NEXT RADICAL

OBJECTIVE: 50 000 SIGNATURES OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS FOR THE ABOLITION OF CONSCRIPTION

Moscow, September 18. The Assembly of radicals of Moscow and

Moscow region has adopted its final document confirming the

main objective of the radical campaign: to collect by the end

of January 2000 50 000 signatures of Russian citizens under the

petition to the next Duma. The petition calls to abolish the

universal military service and to pass to a professional army.

About 80 people took part in the Assembly - members of the

Radical Party, of the ARA, of Club Khramov and militants taking

an active part in "The Third millennium without conscription

slavery" campaign. The participants in the Assembly also

supported Sergei Kirienko as a candidate for mayor of Moscow.

Find the text of the Final document at the "Second page".

THE COURT OF DOMODEDOVO REJECTS THE COMPLAINT OF A

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR

Domodedovo (Moscow region), September 24. The Regional Court

Domodedovskii has examined the complaint lodged by Evghenii

Bashkov against the enlistment commission of the Military

Commissariat of Domodedovo. Evghenii asked to revoke the

decision to call him up and to assign him to perform the

alternative civilian service. Judge Igor' Kubyshkin decided to

reject his complaint. Orally the judge recognised the right of

the draftee to perform the alternative civilian service,

however, his decision was negative.

ANTIFASHIST YOUTH ACTION PROTESTS AGANIST THE SECOND CHECHEN

WAR

Moscow, October 1. Militants of the Antifascist Youth Action

(AYA) have organised an action of protest against the second

Chechen war and for a professional army at the Ministry of

Defence. Their action was timed to the start of the autumn

enlistment campaign. Although the AYA has informed the

authorities about their action, according to the legislation,

the territory administration "Arbat" has banned it, referring

to the decree of Luzhkov on the "special state" of the capital

because of the acts of terror. That is why instead of the

meeting at the Ministry of Defence the militants of the YAY

could only distribute antimilitarist leaflets and hold a press-

conference of their leader Petr Kaznacheev.

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THE THIRD MILLENIUM WITHOUT CONSCRIPTION SLAVERY

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By September 23, 1999 we managed to collect 2919 signatures in

67 Russian regions under the petition "The Third millennium

without conscription slavery". The regions where more than 10

signatures have been collected:

Moscow .................................................... 1560

Moscow region ............................................. 283

Udmurtiya.................................................. 139

Yaroslavl' region ......................................... 100

Tver' region .............................................. 85

Tula region ............................................... 79

Stavropol' region ......................................... 59

Oryol region .............................................. 54

Penza region .............................................. 52

Mary-El republic .......................................... 50

Rostov region ............................................. 48

Krasnodar region .......................................... 45

Krasnoyarsk region ........................................ 41

Nizhniii Novgorod region .................................. 38

Kaluga region ............................................. 33

Ryazan' region ............................................ 22

Vladimir region ........................................... 20

Chelyabinsk region ........................................ 18

Sankt Petersburg and Leningrad region ..................... 17

Saratov region ............................................ 14

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FINAL DOCUMENT

OF THE RADICAL ASSEMBLY OF MOSCOW AND MOSCOW REGION

Approved with 28 votes "for", 2 "against" and 3 abstentions.

We, the participants of the Radical Assembly of Moscow and

Moscow region, members of the Transnational Radical Party, of

the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA) and Club Khramov -

an Association for Libertarian Reforms; citizens who support

the radical struggle for freedom, civil rights, law-abiding

state, for the Right to Life and the Life of the Right,

united in Moscow on September 18, 1999,

consider that in the next few months the political and

organisational priority should belong to the petition campaign

"The Third millennium without conscription slavery" and confirm

its object: to collect 50.000 signatures of Russian citizens

under the petition for the abolition of conscription and the

professional army by January 2000.

We appeal to all people who support the abolition of the

conscription slavery in Russia to join our activity for

collecting signatures under this petition.

We are glad to stress the political and moral support

manifested to the campaign "The Third millennium without

conscription slavery" by Sergei Kirienko. We appeal to "New

Force" and "Moscow Alternative" movements, led by Kirienko, and

call them to collaborate; we also approve the decision of

Sergei Kirienko to run for Moscow mayor.

We also invite to collaborate all democratic and liberal forces

in our country.

As far as the present-day political situation is concerned, we

are worried by the fact that civil rights and freedoms are to

become the next victim of explosions in Moscow. We consider it

necessary to unite all democratic and liberal forces in Russia

in order to resist to the fast establishment of an openly

police regime in our country.

We also disapprove recent legislation initiatives of Moscow

mayor Luzhkov for the introduction of criminal penalty for drug

consumption and of death penalty for drug distribution. We

would like to draw the attention to the necessity of launching

once again and developing antiprohibitionist initiatives in

Russia.

We appeal to everybody who would like to help the success of

our campaign "The Third millennium without conscription

slavery" and of other radical initiatives in defence of

freedom, of the Right to Life and the Life of Right, to join

the Transnational Radical Party and the Antimilitarist Radical

Association in 1999 in order to provide both the success of our

initiatives and the future existence of the Party and the ARA

that are still at risk.

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