Archive for August, 2005

Masked Men Attack NBP Activists

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

A baseball bat Masked men wielding baseball bats and gas pistols, several of whom were wearing T-shirts bearing the emblem of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, attacked a group of National Bolshevik Party activists Monday night, activists who witnessed the incident said Tuesday.

The attack, which witnesses said lasted only a few minutes, left three people hospitalized. Opposition youth activists and political leaders accused Nashi of carrying out a well-planned attack against the Kremlin’s political opponents and warned of an escalating conflict. Nashi, or Us, which has condemned radical youth groups as “fascists” and proclaimed them to be its primary political foes, denied any connection to the attack. (more…)

The Opposition Changes Its Battle Cry

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Writers Eduard Limonov (left) and Alexander Prokhanov (center), and Mikhail Delyagin (right), director of the Globalization Issues Institute at the "Actions of the Rresponsible Opposition in Revolutionary Conditions" conference

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Yesterday, the Moscow Mayor’s Office held a conference on “The Activities of a Responsible Opposition in Revolutionary Conditions.” Members of opposition parties and movements amicably condemned the policies of Vladimir Putin and called for a battle against the ruling regime. But they were unable to agree on the forms of that battle. Yury Chernega reports.

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Batting a Thousand

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Injured members of leftist youth organizations said that their attackers escaped in a bus.// Who was behind the attack on the National Bolsheviks

Patriot Games


Late Monday night, an attack was made on radical leftist youth in Moscow. They were shot with stun guns and beaten with baseball bats. Four members of the National Bolshevik Party were hospitalized. The victims are blaming the pro-presidential Nashi (Ours) group for the attack, although that group denies any involvement. At the police station where the attackers were taken, all information about them has been declared secret and the attackers themselves released. Kommersant has been able to obtain a list of the arrestees, however. It can be gathered from an examination of that list that the attackers were part of an organized group of fans of the Spartak team that has been suspected of having ties with Nashi.

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I hate school and school teachers

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Russian school

I deeply hated my school. I remember as I walked in early mornings, half-asleep, stepping into muddy grounds of Poperetchnaia Street towards my school Number Eight. We have lived at Saltovski settlement, outskirts of Kharkov, Ukraine. Scrambled eggs stuffed into my stomach in hustle were suffocating me. Red necktie of soviet pioneer, galoshes on my feet, long coat, fur cap on my head, portfolio full of books, I looked as a clown. I hated myself. I thought about going back home, about lying on my divan and having a deep sleep. But it was impossible, because of my mother. She would not let me back in. She wanted me to be educated person.

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