The most important words, the most free people... The project "Faces of the Russian Resistance" and the publishing house Fresh Verlag present to your attention the book "Voices of the Russian Resistance": a collection of speeches of political prisoners delivered by them at the trial, the so-called "last words". The authors of these words are real modern heroes and heroines, and their speeches are perhaps the most poignant political statements made inside Russia in our time. Making a speech is the last thing Russians who disagree with Putin manage to do before they end up locked up in prisons for years. Not everyone survives in them.

The book is dedicated to the memory of Alexei Navalny. Political prisoners whose last words are included in the collection: Mikhail Afanasyev, Egor Balazeikin, Igor Baryshnikov, Yulia Galyamina, Alexey Gorinov, Alla Gutnikova, Dmitry Ivanov, Artyom Kamardin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Mikhail Krieger, Alexey Moskalev, Alexey Navalny, Oleg Orlov, Victoria Petrova, Andrey Pivovarov, Maria Ponomarenko, Mikhail Simonov, Sasha Skochilenko, Nikita Uvarov, Ilya Yashin.

The compiler and author of the preface: Ilya Azar

The main task of the "Faces of the Russian Resistance" project is to give people around the world, who are far from Russian realities, an opportunity to get acquainted with what Vladimir Putin's regime has turned life into in Russia. Not everyone understands that protest in Russia is practically impossible, that for any words, any manifestation of dissent, you can end up in prison.

Abstract by Dmitry Muratov (editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize):

"There is only one place in Russia where a person can say everything, as guaranteed by the Constitution, without censorship. This place is a courtroom. The last word before the verdict. Right in front of the handcuffs and the prison. Apparently, "if we put him in jail anyway, let him talk," judges and security officers think. The unique texts in this book: almost all of their authors are sitting. Paying with ourselves for our right to read it."