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On Tuesday (23rd) Russian anarchists celebrated a national holiday in their own inimitable way by targeting a military HQ in Moscow. Around 30 activists marched through the streets before lobbing bottles and lightbulbs filled with red paint at the building and spraying slogans on the walls.

‘Defender of the Motherland Day’ is dedicated to people from the armed forces, the date is also connected with the violent deportation of Chechens and Ingushs to Central Asia in 1944.

Protesters scattered as a police car drove by, leaving a (pseudo) blood spattered military commandment’s office behind them. All told a ballsy act in Putin’s Russia...

*see www.avtonom.org/en/node/8687

*The Belarusian capital Minsk also saw some anarchic action, with demonstrators congregating to protest against the planned building of a new nuclear power plant.