Russia

Russia’s World Cup has Syrian blood on its hands

Posted on June 18, 2018 - Federation Tags: Russia, Syria

As the World Cup gets underway in Russia, we repost this essay by Sam Hamad, an independent Scottish-Egyptian activist and writer, criticizing the Russian State for its war crimes in Syria. Besides supporting Bashar al-Assad—Vladimir Putin recently declared that Russian troops are “testing and training” in Syria—Putin’s regime is very sexually traditionalist, with the result […]

Against the Assad Regime’s Conquest of Eastern Aleppo

Posted on December 26, 2016 - Federation Tags: Aleppo, Assad, Eastern Aleppo, Iran, PYD, refugees, Russia, Syria

We members of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Rojava-Syria Solidarity Committee (BRRN-RSSC) in the strongest terms condemn the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies for their recent conquest of Eastern Aleppo. This brutal defeat of the Aleppo rebels, who were both secular and Islamist, has entailed massively indiscriminate bombardment and besiegement by the […]