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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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Who’s Scared of Whom?

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

My partner and I are engaged in a semantic argument. At the heart of it is the question, what is the regime doing? Specifically, is it pissing itself or pissing on us? I think the way the authorities are acting betrays a great fear of us, the people, who are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the way things are. In other words, they are pissing themselves. She thinks the actions of the authorities show great disdain for us, the people. In other words, they are pissing on us. I think change is in the air; she thinks we’ll all be sorry. (more…)

Eviction for Convictions

Monday, June 20th, 2005

On Friday, a number of vehicles carrying several dozen police, at least one court marshal and, it appears, several firefighters from the Emergency Situations Ministry pulled up to a residential building in southwestern Moscow. They spent several hours using welding equipment to cut through two steel doors leading to a basement space, where they ultimately detained 15 members of the National Bolshevik Party. What was this about? The police were carrying out a decision made by the Moscow Arbitration Court back in March ordering the NBP to vacate the premises, which were rented in the name of a fictitious company called Honest Entrepreneurs. The exact legal grounds for the decision were unclear. By all accounts, the NBP had been an exemplary tenant. It paid its bills on time, and its members had turned a semi-abandoned space into a habitable basement.  (more…)

A New Life for Orderly Lefortovo

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

Lefortovo prisonWhen Lefortovo is removed from the jurisdiction of the Federal Security Service and placed like all other penitentiary facilities under the Justice Ministry, the legend of the much-feared, high-security prison may finally draw to a close.

At Lefortovo, prisoners suffer extreme isolation, and routine prison regulations are followed to a depressing degree, but this also can make time spent there more tolerable, former inmates say.

“I feel a strange pity for the place. After the FSB gives it away, the super-orderly Lefortovo will turn into a regular, stinking jail,” said writer Eduard Limonov, who spent 15 months in Lefortovo in 2002 and 2003 as the FSB investigated his radical National Bolshevik Party. (more…)

Ordinary Antifascism

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

Ours started fighting against “fascist” Eduard Limononv in a three-room apartment, are planning to continue in schools and colleges

// Ours starts a drive in schools

Extracurricular reading


Leaders of the propresidential youth movement Ours gave a presentation yesterday called A Program for Fighting Fascism. As part of this program, they published a brochure entitled Extraordinary Fascism, which talks about a united campaign against Russia being carried out by opposition politicians like Eduard Limonov, Irina Khakamada, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Dmitry Rogozin, Gary Kasparov, and Gennady Zyuganov. The brochure will be distributed free in Russian schools, colleges, and universities.

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Sympathy for the National Bolsheviks

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

It’s nothing new to say that the court system acts in favor of the authorities, whether it is dealing with so-called tax violations allegedly committed by Yukos management or the latest openly unconstitutional presidential initiative to take away the right of the population to elect the heads of regions. In both cases, the Kremlin has mixed rational arguments with humbug, in effect tossing the Constitution out the window.

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The Nazbols Captured “United Russia”

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

Nazbol Roman PopkovYesterday, a group of activists of Eduard Limonov’s National-Bolshevik Party (NBP) captured the public vestibule of the “United Russia” party in Pereyaslavsky Lane. Having smashed the security, the nazbols penetrated into the building and carried out an action under the motto “Russia without Putin”, arranged with the presidential elections.

The reporter of the newspaper “Kommersant” Oleg Kashin watched the action and was arrested by the police together with its participants.  (more…)

The Fatal Eggs Of The Nazbols

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

The Fatal Eggs Of The NazbolsFor the last half-year NBP demonstrated that often in political struggle tomatoes and eggs are a more effective weapon than bombs and money. When they shot Veshnyakov with mayonnaise and made an omelet of Kasyanov - this is called “velvet terrorism”.

The tomato attacks on officials from the highest echelons of power developed through the entire Russia quickly transformed the nazbols from crackheads and delinquents in fighters with corrupt bureaucracy and defenders of the Russian people.  (more…)

Dressing down for election chief

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

The campaign to clean up electioneering by Russia’s top electoral official, Alexander Veshnyakov, has got off to a bad start. As he closed a five-day conference involving 27 political parties at the Manezh exhibition centre in Moscow, the mud-slinging, or rather the mayonnaise-slinging, began.
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St Petersburg celebrations begin with beatings

Monday, May 19th, 2003

Police squads dispersed an unsanctioned rally organized by anti-globalists and the left-wing opposition on Mars Field, a memorial garden in the centre of St. Petersburg, on Sunday. Five protesters ended up in hospital. According to policemen, during the tercentenary celebrations in the northern capital, law enforcers will treat offenders especially harshly.
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