From FAI (Italy), 30 Jul 2007

Ciao Ilya, We want to convey our sorrow and rage on the death of anarchist comrade Ilya Borodaenko, who was brutally killed by a Nazi gang that, in the early morning of July 21st, attacked the anti-nuke camp organized by several ecologist, anti-autoritharian and anarchist organizations near the town of Angarsk in Russia. This grave event shows the incredible dangerousness of Nazi groups - in Russia as elsewhere - who are killers on the payroll of financial and political lobbies that cannot stand any opposition to their plans to exploit the enviroment. ---- The Anti-nuke camp's activists were attacked because they called into question, with their political action, the program of storage, selling and engineering of nuclear power organized by the Russian goverment and Russian companies, and because they denounced the harmfulness of atomic power, supporting clean, enviromentally-friendly forms of energy.

Despicable Nazis violence cannot - and must not - stop the fight for enviromental protection and for the creation of a world with more freedom and equality, against the State and Capitalism.

Goodbye Ilya, we'll never forget you!

International Relations Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federation - FAI

From AF (Britain), 1 Aug 2007

The Anarchist Federation adds its voice to those condemning the murder of Anarchist comrade Ilya Borodaenko, a member of Autonomous Action (Russia) at the hands of fascists on Saturday 21st 2007. A nazi gang, armed with iron bars, bats & air guns, attacked ecological protestors as they slept at the Angarsk anti-nuclear camp in Siberia. They beat seven comrades into hospital, where one is still seriously ill and where Ilya died.

The Russian state has attempted to hide the political nature of this outrage. Most offensively, it has implied that anarchism has nothing to do with environmentalism or anti-nuclear protest. With Autonomous Action and other Anarchist organisations we wish to state strongly that social and environmental crisis are intrinsically linked and that the causes of one can no longer be addressed in isolation from the other. The state has also portrayed the attack as nothing more than a skirmish between rival youth groupings. This was in fact a mobilisation of fascists from throughout the Irkutsk region in which the authorities are implicated.

Fascism stands for dictatorship, inequality, intolerance, and collaborates in the destruction of the natural world by capitalism. Anarchists celebrate freedom, equality and diversity, and fight to protect the planet we will all one day share.

We also honour the memory of Timur Kacharava & Alexander Ryuchin, & the African students Samba Lamsar & Kanhem Leon, who have died in the recent wave of neo-nazi violence in Russia. Anarchists in Britain and Ireland will remember the fallen with vigils, antifascist activity and environmental activism of our own this Summer. We send solidarity to the comrades continuing the camp at Angarsk.

Info on Indymedia UK: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/376699.html

Link to Autonomous Action website: http://avtonom.org/index.php

Statement of survivers of A Nazi attack to Ecological protest camp in Angarsk, on A-infos: http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos19697.html