Who is the Russian anti-war poet

tehran-tarna: Artem Kamardin, a Russian poet, critically addresses war and violence through his poetry, sending a message tt peace to the world. He is recognized as an anti-war poet who uses his art to criticize wars and their damage to societies

In Russia, two poets have been sentenced to seven years in prison for poems expressing opposition to the warin Ukraine

According to the Iranian Poetry News Agency-Tarna: Artem Kamardin, a 33-year-old Russian poet from the Moscow region, living in the city of Litarokino, describes himself as a conceptual artist and an anti-culture poet. Since 2013, he has been the host and coordinator of the "Mayakovsky Reading" seminars and conferences

Before his arrest by the Russian security police, resulting in his detention and imprisonment, Kamardin worked as an engineer designing optical cameras and night vision surveillance devices

Mayakovsky Readings are unconventional poetry nights held at the monument of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky on the last Sunday of each month. On September 25, 2023, at Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow near the Vladimir Mayakovsky monument, poet Artem Kamardin read his poems as part of the Mayakovsky Reading event. Nikolay Daynko and Igor Shtubba also participated in this event. The speakers read several poems criticizing the military operations of the Russian army in Ukraine. Participants of the Mayakovsky poetry reading were detained and sent to prison by a court decision. On Wednesday, September 28, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow detained Artem Kamardin and two other young Russian poets for two months, until November 25. Kamardin is accused of inciting individuals and threatening mass violence (Article 282, Section 2, Subsection A of the Criminal Code). This crime could lead to six to seven years in prison for the accused

On September 26, security forces entered the apartment where the poet, his girlfriend, and friends were staying. They beat them and reportedly also raped Kamardin, motivated by his anti-war poems read the previous day during the Mayakovsky Reading in central Moscow

Neighbors Kamardin, Alexandra Popova, and Alexander Menyukov were also harmed by the actions of the security forces. According to Popova, government officials taped her mouth shut, beat her, and threatened her with gang rape. She claims that after the inspection, $600 was stolen from the apartment of these literary activists

In addition to Kamardin, the police arrested other participants of the Mayakovsky Reading, poets such as Igor

Shtubba and Nikolay Daynko, and sentenced them to six to seven years in prison

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