What Can You Do to Help Artem?

There is probably not much that you can do to solve this long list of woes. But you can help Artem right now. Here are some suggestions.

1. You can contribute to Artem’s legal defense fund.

Contributions in US Dollars

Correspondent bank of beneficiary’s bank:
Bank of New York, New York, One Wall Street, New York, NY 10286, USA
SWIFT code:
IRVTUS3N
Account number with correspondent bank:
890-0570-822
Beneficiary’s bank:
Alfa-Bank Moscow
SWIFT code:
ALFARUMM
Beneficiary’s bank account number:
40817840708110001957
Beneficiary:
Chesnokov Ulyan Mihaylovich

Contributions in Euros

As above, except for the benificiary’s account number: 40817978808110002061

2. You can mail, call in, fax or e-mail your protest to the Novosibirsk Regional Court, which will next hear Artem’s case on June 10.

Novosibirsk Regional Court
ul. Pisareva, 35
Russian Federation 630091 Novosibirsk

Telephone: +7 (383) 221-17-72
Fax: +7 (383) 221-95-30

E-mail: oblsudnso@nsk.raid.ru

3. You can publicize Artem’s case in blogs, e-mail lists, and in the non-Russian language press.

There are two principal, constantly updated sources of information on Artem’s case:
The website of the art group Babuskha Posle Pokhoron: kissmybabushka.com
And the website Free Artem Loskutov!: free.kissmybabushka.com

The first site is Russian-language only, while the second contains articles in English, German, and French.

Feel free to copy/paste and otherwise use anything in this post.

If you need more information or would like us to translate or interpret any articles from the Russian media, please contact us by writing in the comments section.

4. You can organize your own performances and protest actions.

Take your inspiration from the tremendously creative and brave public actions we’ve described above. Poetry, music, art, and performance are powerful instruments of knowledge and political action. Use them!

If you do decide to organize a public protest, do it outside a Russian consulate or embassy, or the venue of a Russian concert, ballet, art exhibition, theater performance or other public event. While Artem sits in jail there should be no peace for Russia’s ruling, creative and thinking classes. Their actions and inaction are responsible for the present dismal state of affairs in Russia, one of whose victims is Artem.

Artem is our comrade. To know him is to love him, but even if you don’t know him or even if the dubious lads at Center “E” don’t love him, that it is no reason why Artem should waste the best years of his life facing down criminal charges or a prison sentence. Artem should be out in the world making art.

The action you take now to publicize his case, support his defense, and inform the Russian authorities that the whole world is watching, will make a difference.

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