Three years ago today, three anarchists were killed in battle with Russian forces in Ukraine: an American named Cooper Andrews, an Irishman named Finbar Cafferkey, and a Russian named Dmitry Petrov.

Dmitry had been corresponding with us, reporting on the resistance to the Russian invasion. After Dmitry was killed, his comrades revealed that he had been involved in some of the most daring anarchist initiatives in 21st-century Russia.

Here, we offer an overview of his efforts as a snapshot of the past two decades of struggle in the post-Soviet world:

https://crimethinc.com/Petrov