{"id":3662,"date":"2025-12-26T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nottoday.media\/en\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:09:48","slug":"when-your-tour-across-europe-is-actually-an-escape-from-the-fsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nottoday.media\/en\/activism\/when-your-tour-across-europe-is-actually-an-escape-from-the-fsb","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen your tour across Europe is actually an escape from the FSB.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends and colleagues from No Future<\/a>, in collaboration with “People of Baikal,”<\/a> have released a documentary titled “Punk or Aikhal: How an Anarchist Escapes the Cops.”<\/em> It tells the story of Aikhal Ammosov, a Yakut punk, anarchist, and anti-war activist who miraculously escaped the Russian police: first from a pretrial detention center in Kazakhstan, then hitchhiking to Berlin without documents or guarantees, fueled only by the belief that he would remain free. In the film, you can see the first days of his new, complicated freedom in Berlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nottoday is publishing a text about Aikhal and the film “Punk or Aikhal: How an Anarchist Escapes the Cops,”<\/em><\/strong><\/em> which is already available to watch<\/a> on the No Future YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been released temporarily, don’t get too happy,\u201d Russian cops told Aikhal Ammosov the first time he was let out of pretrial detention. These words are especially relevant if you are a Yakut punk, anarchist, and performance artist with a criminal case on your back. They are especially relevant if your last name has already been filed in a folder alongside words like \u201cextremism,\u201d \u201canti-war agitation,\u201d and \u201cf*ck the empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I needed to do some kind of protest action when they started bringing \u2018Cargo 200\u2019 [war casualties] back to Yakutia and unloading them at night so people wouldn’t see. This was in the spring of 2022. They buried them quietly, in silence. The media didn’t write about it. That\u2019s why I decided to take action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Part of a monologue<\/a> by Aikhal Ammosov, source: No Future<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Aikhal Ammosov, photo from the subject’s Instagram<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aikhal is not a hero of a Netflix drama. He just wanted to play loud music, spit on the war, and stage protests that made the Russian media itch and the cops do what they call “work.” The result: multiple arrests in his homeland, a year in a Kazakhstani prison at Russia’s request, a document-less escape, and finally\u2014Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t miss Russia, because I never lived in Russia. I miss Yakutia, because it\u2019s my native land. I lived there my whole life. I would like to return and set up a rehearsal space, a recording studio, and open a label to promote young rock bands. There are so many people in Yakutia right now playing rock music.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Part of a monologue<\/a> by Aikhal Ammosov, source: No Future<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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