Individual Stories…

Nadin Brzezinski
6 min readSep 13, 2024

I keep mentioning that there is resistance inside Russia. We will not know how effective it is until after the war, but some of the resistance gets captured from time to time. So here is the story of one, Ruslan Sidiki. Rospartisan is also correct in pointing out that he is lucky to have a lawyer.

That said, he will likely end up in a colony because, in reality, resistance can be contagious. And the last thing the regime needs is an internal revolt.

Not all captured Resistance members are lucky with lawyers. The heroic Ruslan Sidiki (who derailed a freight train and launched a drone attack on a military airfield) was lucky with his defense attorney. He is a competent and courageous lawyer who clearly understands what is happening.

As reported by “Solidarity Zone”, Ruslan Sidiki’s lawyer Igor Popovsky sent a petition to the investigator to recognize the prisoner as a prisoner of war on the basis of the Geneva Convention.

This is a very correct step. The reactionary Russian “human rights community” has difficulty recognizing some partisans as political prisoners and will certainly never recognize all of our fighters as such.

Meanwhile, many saboteurs, arsonists, as well as Resistance scouts and informants, are sitting in the dungeons.

There are also several heroes who are absolutely

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB