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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Edward Limonov is a complex and a contradictory figure. One of the greatest modern Russian writers, today he is more famous as a politician.
In the outgoing year, Limonov has made several steps towards Islam and Muslims. What has driven him to this? What is his message to the Muslims of Russia and the world? What does he think about Islam and actual problems related to it?
These are the questions we tried to clarify from him directly.
- Recently you published the notorious article “The Islam Card”. As far as we know, your positive attitude towards Muslims and their religion was greatly influenced by your prison experience when you were jailed in Lefortovo in a cell with the Chechen Aslanbek Alkhazurov, which was written in one of your books. Were there other factors that prompted you to look at Islam with sympathy?
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Tags: Alkhazurov, Chechens, European Union, Fomenko, France, Iraq, Islam, Jemal, Koran, Lefortovo, Limonov, Muhammad, Muslims, National-Bolsheviks, NATO, NBP, Nevski, Nosovski, Paris, prison, Rushdi
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Monday, August 9th, 2004
A group of activists of the radical National Bolshevik Party stormed the Health Ministry headquarters on August 2 to protest the government’s plan to replace Soviet-era benefits with cash payments. Protestors were detained by the police after they seized one of the ministry’s offices shouting antigovernment slogans from the window and waving flags. In a statement released by the NBP following their detention, the party said its members were savagely battered by FSB officers at the Tverskoye police department.
In an interview to Gazeta.Ru, Eduard Limonov, a novelist, leader and founder of the NBP, comments on the incident.
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Tags: Duma, elections, FSB, GUIN, Health Ministry, National-Bolshevik Party, NBP, police state, Putin, struggle, Yabloko
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2004
Vladimir Linderman, member of the CC of the National-Bolshevik party, Roman Popkov, leader of the Moscow department of the National-Bolshevik party are on the air of “Echo Moskvy” radio station.
The presenter is Vladimir Varfolomeyev
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Tags: CPRF, Duma, FSB, Gromov, Limonov, Linderman, Ministry of Health, MVD, NBP, OMON, Orlov, Popkov, RUBOP, United Russia, Zurabov
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Sunday, July 25th, 2004
Dmitri Kaznacheyev is an attractive young man with an intelligent appearance. His style of speaking is accurate and a little bookish. When appointing the meeting I said: ” Let’s meet at three!”. He specified: “At 15.00?”. I promised to stand him beer. He answered :” I don’t take alcoholic drinks!” This punctual man is chief “limonovist” of Novosibirsk, the leader of the local department of the National-Bolshevik Party. At the same time Dmitri is a grandson of the famous Novosibirsk academic Vlail Petrovich Kaznacheyev.
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Tags: Kaznacheyev, Novosibirsk
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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
Russian lefts grow swiftly younger. Rallying students succeed grandmothers. They are struggling against Putin the “dictator”, unmasking Zuganov the “revisionist” and are waiting for the anticapitalist revolution any day. In order to brighten up the process of waiting they bombard elder politicians with ketchup and mayonnaise.
On the 23d of February Russia’s left radicals are going to carry out the action “Russia without Putin”. Evidently they will not manage to organize a mass rally, their most significant actions have gathered only about 2000 participants so far. Under Yeltsin mass left radical open-airs mainly attracted grandmothers with saucepans. Now - students.
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Tags: AKM, Anpilov, Beria, Bunker, Gevara, GULAG, Kasyanov, Limonka, NATO, nazbol, NBP, Popkov, Putin, Robertson, Stalin, Tulkin, Veshnyakov, Yeltsin, Zizek, Zuganov, СPRF
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
Children Of The Anxious Times
Punks - this word means so much for a russian heart… The most reckles informal movement of the last decade - one could always pick them out in the crowd of other “hippie-rockers” by a bright irokez and a striking number of ear-rings in different places. Frightful customs were asociated with the punks, eating the products of one’s own vital activity during the initiation ceremony was the best-known one. Punk-music of the 80-s was foreboding Apocalypse, and the songs’ texts seemed to be an absolute nonsense. But whatever they were spoken about and whatever frightful rumours they were spread about, on the basis of nihilism russian punks, and first of all legendary “Grajdanskaya Oborona”, managed to create their own world and culture, deserving if not respect, study at least. The new generation of irokez bearers even don’t dream about it… In the new millennium the punk culture has noticeably given up its positions. The word punk is more and more associated with an unprincipled rabble, who’s happiness is in drinking, smoking, doping… But today we’ll meet, perhaps, the last of the punk Mohicans, the bearers of the unique underground life philosophy, which will soon become history. Besides we’ll find out if they like living in the historic motherland, surrounded by the admirers of Shlomo Artsi and Sarid Hadad…
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Tags: Dead Kennedys, Exploited, Gosplan, Grajdanskaya Oborona, Israel, OMON, punk, Ravich, Sex Pistols
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2004
Political spring in Kishinev turned out to be hot. For really youth public organizations, among which the Kishinev department of the NBP is leading, too. News releases of this youth group are not gay with popmpous reports on received grants. They rather remind of reports from the field of military operations:
“Today, on the 22 of April at about 9.10 a.m., 4 or 6 activists of the National-Bolshevik Party were arrested not far from Moldexpo centre, when going to the rally alternative to that of the PKRM and devoted to V.I. Lenin’s birthday. Let me remind you that the rally of the alternative Left Forces had been organized by the city administration of Kishinev and took place from 9.30 till 11.00 near the entrance to the Moldexpo exhibition centre. The action was held under the slogan “Yes to Lenin, No to Voronin!”
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Tags: Kishinev, Lenin, Moldova, nazbol, NBP, Nikolaev, NTV, OMON, Shalar, socialism, Voronin
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Friday, April 16th, 2004
part two of the eXile interview with Eduard Limonov
— To me, His Butler’s Story is one of your best books. One of the reasons I was shocked when I first read it was that somehow you managed to describe what Jenny, an ordinary American of the time, was like. I read that and looked around at the rest of American literature and nobody repeated it. I always wondered what made it so hard to Americans to describe carefully what was happening. You needed to go to a Russian…
— Probably really because I was new and fresh from the other world. What I saw was probably banality for the Americans. And I came from a completely different social situation. And I had some kind of a good eye… (more…)
Tags: Ames, Bukowski, Carpenter, Dreiser, France, FSB, Hell, kill, Lebedev, Lefortovo, Limonka, Limonov, prison, punk, Saratov, Savenko, Solzhenitsyn, Zilberman
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Sunday, February 15th, 2004
The member of the NBP Central Committee Sergei Fomchenkov is answering at the instance of Edward Limonov.
1. Could you present us the National-Bolshevik Party, its ideology and aims?
The National-Bolshevik Party now represents an acting political organization with 10 years of history of struggle, counting about 12000 members, having more than 50 regional departments around Russia. The party members are mainly the youth(15-30 years old), people discontent with their social position, marginals, nonordinary personalities with literary and artistic propensity, even “hereditary” revolutionaries. On the whole all the strata of society, different nationalities, religions are represented.
Our ideology is based on the works of such theorists of national-bolshevism as Ustryalov, Agurski, the works of Edward Limonov. We also borrow the ideas of current importance from Lenin, Mussolini, Mao and others.
Our aim is to come to power in Russia by means of National Revolution. We aspire to the establishment of the national and social justice in Russia, to the complete replacement of the ruling class - the power of functionaries and former nomenclature elite removal, redistribution and nationalization of property.
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Tags: Agurski, Bahur, CPRF, Duma, Europe, Fomchenkov, France, FSB, Lenin, Limonov, Mao, Mikhalkov, Mussolini, NATO, NBP, Petrenko, Putin, Sevastopol, Ukraine, United Russia, USA, Ustryalov, Yeltsin, Zhirinovski
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2004
But for the limonovists, life would be boring
Like smart scullions they scurry about political kitchen without getting tired and pleasing the gourmets with exotic dishes (”Nikita Mikhalkov With Eggs”, “Chubais Under Mayonnaise” and others). Also they are publishing their newspaper, which one mustn’t publish neither in good conscience, nor according to the law (those who’ve read it know why).
They are withdrawn a licence, scolded for extremism, but they don’t care a straw. There was “Limonka”, now it’s “General Line”. If “General Line” is banned, limonovists will certainly invent something else. The Central Committee of the NBP member Nina Silina (sounds extremely seriously, but in fact it’s a good-looking smiling girl) has told us about the secrets of fantastic vitality of the party.
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Tags: Abel, Boikov, Chubais, Galkin, Limonka, Mikhalkov, newspaper, Prokrust, Silina
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