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Ainur Kurmanov

We’ve been asked by people from both the IMF and IUF to mobilize support for Ainur Kurmanov and I’ve now taken the first steps in what I hope will be a very large campaign.  These include:

1. Setting up the campaign in English – with text I received from Moscow
2. Sending out a test mailing – to make sure the messages don’t bounce
3. Informing the group in the IMF and IUF that the campaign is live and asking for a Russian version
4. Sending it out for translation into Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Polish to our volunteer translators
5. Sending out an English language mass mailing to LabourStart’s list [51,040 subscribers]
6. Posting the message to Posterous, and thereby automatically sending it out via Twitter [1,586 followers]
7. Mailing to everyone in our Facebook group [2,025 members]
8. Adding a number of news links relating to the case
9. Asking the owner of the existing Facebook group in support of Ainur to write to all its members [687]