“Любите меня, пожалуйста (Love me, please)”,
2010, film screening
🗣 In Russian with English subtitles
🗓 Jan 14, 2026, Wednesday 18:30
📍 Bibliothek der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Str. der Pariser Kommune 8A, Berlin Ostbahnhof
On January 14, 2026, we will screen the documentary film Please Love Me (2010). The screening is held in connection with the demonstration on January 19, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Far-Right Violence.
Directed by Valery Balayan, the film tells the story of journalist and antifascist activist Anastasia Baburova, who was murdered in Moscow on January 19, 2009, together with human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Combining personal testimonies from those who knew her with excerpts from neo-Nazi propaganda, the film situates Baburova’s life and death within the broader context of political terror and the antifascist movement in Russia in the early 2000s.
This discussion remains urgently relevant. Far-right violence has not disappeared: its forms, rhetoric, and media packaging may change, but its core remains the same — the denial of others’ right to exist. We continue to witness racist murders of children, the normalization of hatred, and the public legitimization of violence, and we want to come together to think about how to resist it. Erinnern heißt Kämpfen!
The screening will be followed by an online discussion with Ulyana Suzdalskaya and Alexander Bikbov, with time for questions and shared reflections.
TW: Film contains scenes of racist violence