At 10:45 a.m. on August 2, about 30 members of National-Bolsheviks Party arrived to the main entrance of Russian Ministry of Health Care at Rakhmanovski pereulok in Moscow. Some of them were wearing a green overalls, pretending to be workers. They presented themselves as a team of sanitarians, arrived to do a disinfection of ministry premises. So they asked clerks to live for a while. Office workers have agreeably obeyed orders. National-Bolsheviks have occupied offices of Minister Zurabov, as well as a few other offices on the second and third floor. They opened the windows, fixed National-Bolsheviks flags out of the windows. Then they start to shout slogans and throw leaflets out of the windows.
They shouted, “Zurabov is enemy of the people!”, “For our elders we’ll cut your ears!”, “Privileges to the people, Ministers to the guillotine!”, “To people — free medicine, ministers to the guillotine!”
Leaflets have such text: “Zurabov go out! So-called ‘monetarization of privileges’ is crime of government against people. Minister Zurabov — one of the main organizers of that rip-off, is criminal. We are asking all honest citizens of Russia to crowd together against power of bureaucrats band, which terrorizing our country.”
At 11:25 first militia car have arrived. From above, from the window of Zurabov’s office clear and strong voice said: “Do we have there, ministry clerks? You can kiss your tzar on his ass!” The portrait of President Putin is falling from the window of Zurabov’s office on sidewalk. Photographic picture of that falling portrait of Putin was printed on the pages of dozens of newspapers, as well as fixed by telecameras.
At 11:55 special forces of militia OMON have stormed their way into building. They are about one hundred men strong. They breaking the doors of offices occupied by National-Bolsheviks on the third floor. As to Zurabov’s office, National-Bolsheviks have heavily barricaded it from inside, so special militia men are breaking the wall!
Only at 12:20 the first prisoners National-Bolsheviks have appeared out of the door of Ministry. Twenty-five minutes have been used by militia special forces for applying the “measures of physical pressure” on the bodies of National-Bolsheviks. In other words, they were savagely beaten up with clubs and boots of OMON.
Then, at Tverskaya militia station all the night long National-Bolsheviks were beaten by FSB men. On the contrary, simple militiamen were rather sympathetic towards National-Bolsheviks.
On August 3, towards the end of the day Tverskoi district court started to sentence National-Bolsheviks for administrative offenses. Maxim Gromov was arrested second time, as well as Oleg Bespalov, Sergei Ejov, Kirill Klionov, Anatoli Korshunski, Grigori Tishin and Anatoli Globa-Mikhailenko. Most of them aging from 17 to 22 years old, with exception of Gromov who is 31. Normally, even Russian judicial system making one judgement. But, as I presume, after facing August 3rd newspapers, and his own portrait, falling from a window, tzar Putin got very angry. He probably cursed, screamed and throwed some objects at his subordinates. AS a result: the team of then investigators was created by insistence of General Prosecutor’s Office. Criminal case N302345 was transferred from Tverskoi district to the Moscow prosecutor’s office. AS a head of investigator’s team was appointed Evgenii Alimov, investigator of specially important cases from Department of investigation of banditry and homicides of Moscow’s prosecutors’ office. They started to work.
And they really hard worked. In two weeks’ time their investigation was over, because they sorted out from a case N302345 a separated cause of seven National-Bolsheviks with Maxim Gromov en head, I have already named them. Russian government have charged those seven with hooliganism (article 213, part 2, of Penal Code, up to seven years of prison), and with destruction of property (article 167, part 2, up to five years imprisonment) on the somme of 181,206 rubles. The armchair of Zurabov was evaluated at 30,000 rubles, chair for visitors — 10,000 rubles, vase at 3,000 rubles, etc. But a value of portrait of Putin wasn’t counted.
Four of our men are imprisoned at prison Matrosskaya Tishina. Other three recently transferred to Butirskaya prison. At present they are reading three volumes of their criminal case. Then it will be a trial. Party preparing that important trial, we have five lawyers working on case. We have all a deep conviction that a trial of seven National-Bolsheviks will be used by Putin as a showcase, as a tool to frighten opposition to his reign. For a year now, from August 2003 when chairman of Central Electoral Commission Mr. Veshnyakov was attacked with mayonnaise at now burned building of Manezh, National-Bolsheviks were attacking government, its institutions and its officials. Even vorst, National-Bolsheviks have given an example to other opposition parties. Young “Yabloko” members recently have lunched few attacks similar to early National-Bolsheviks tactics. “Avangard of Red Youngsters” — a leftist communist organization is also using National-Bolsheviks tactics. “Velvet terrorism” dangerously for government transferring itself to “Velvet partisan’s war.” National-Bolsheviks giving an examples of hard resistance.
That is why government will try to sentence our seven men as harshly as possible. We are aware of that. That is why government [thing unheard of!] gave the task of investigation of the case of hooliganism to high class investigator of banditry and of homicides. Jesus Crist! For a year Putin’s regime have punished National-Bolsheviks by unlawful beatings and tortures committed by FSB men. But as toreadors, waving a red flags at close range at the bulls eyes, we are unraged the bull to such degree, that bull decided to punish us by law. So, we will see who will win. The moral rightness is on our side. National-Bolsheviks at Ministry of Health Care were defending the rights of 103 million people, exactly as many were concerned by the set of new laws, voted by Parliament on August 3rd. The government, on the contrary, acting as an enemy of Russian people, taking away enormous amount of money from Russians. And not even explaining why government do so. At trial our positions that of government and of National-Bolsheviks Party will be visible. We are looking forward. It is also interesting to note, that Putin didn’t signed yet that set of laws, against which NBP protested. Putin gets scared.
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