A Moscow court on Monday convicted an opposition activist of being a member of the banned National Bolshevik Party, a ruling the radical youth group said could spark a wave of similar convictions.
The Arbat District Magistrates Court convicted Murmansk resident Andrei Nikitin, 20, of participating in a group banned for extremist activities and handed him a one-year suspended sentence with two years probation, Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova said.
Opposition groups release a new collection of protest songs.
Russian rock music, which was in didactic opposition to the Soviet Union before its fall in the early 90s, has lately tended to compromise with the increasingly authoritarian Kremlin rather than challenge it.
Some leading Russian rock figures, for instance, entertained the Kremlin-backed youth movement Nashi at its summer camp on Lake Seliger in 2005 and 2006 as well as performed on Red Square to celebrate the election of Dmitry Medvedev to the presidency on March 2 this year. (more…)
National-bolsheviks and movement “Smena” have presented huge cap with 60 kg of coppers to the Moscow mayor Juriy Luzhkov. The cap was put facing the Moscow Goverment. National-bolsheviks have made the protest to the greed of Juriy Luzhkov, who sued for Edward Limonov, because he said on radio “Svoboda”, that all moscow courts were over conrol of the Moscow mayor. You may find it funny, but court has sustained a claim. Juri Luzhkov likes to wear different caps, somebody talks that he even sleeps in a cap, thats why national-bolsheviks decided to pay a part of debt for a such amusing way. Unfortunaly the cap was taken by policy.