Posts Tagged ‘Belyak’

National Bolshevik Party Declared Extremist

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Eduard Limonov leaving the Moscow City CourtThe Moscow City Court on Thursday declared the unregistered National Bolshevik Party an extremist organization, making it possible for the authorities to arrest anyone who takes part in its activities.

Judge Alla Nazarova also ruled in favor of a request from city prosecutors to ban the organization.

Writer Eduard Limonov, who created the organization in 1993, told reporters outside the courthouse that the ruling was “politically motivated and unjust.”

“This precedent will enable the authorities to do the same thing to parties or people who hold alternative views,” Limonov said. (more…)

A Demonstrative Kidnapping

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Nazbols Dunaenko and BakhurI’m tired - there was always somebody who tried to tell me who is Eduard Limonov. The same thing now, a fifty years old, mustached, sturdy-complexioned representative of the intern agencies. “Don’t you understand that he’s a CIA agent?”

Stop. All of this began a little earlier.

The back seat of a “Volga”, the head below the knees, the left hand squeezed by my own body, a bracelet is snapped on the right. Blows are pouring on the head and the kidneys.  (more…)

Limonov Fights ‘The System’ in Court

Friday, December 6th, 2002

Limonov peering out of the defendant's cage in the Saratov court Wednesday. Charges against him include terrorism and calling for the violent overthrow of the government.SARATOV, Volga Region — Writer Eduard Limonov has never been one to keep his thoughts to himself, especially when it comes to “the evil force called The System.”

Under communism, Limonov’s anti-Soviet views got him expelled from the country. When he returned to Russia in the mid-1990s after 20 years abroad, he headed up a fringe ultranationalist movement and railed against the new regime in the Kremlin, preaching extremism and social justice “by any means necessary.” (more…)

FSB Charges Bolshevik Limonov

Friday, April 20th, 2001

The Federal Security Service has charged Eduard Limonov, a radical writer and head of the National Bolshevik Party, with participating in the illegal procurement of weapons.

Limonov was arrested on April 7 with Sergei Aksyonov, editor of the Limonka newspaper, and six other National Bolshevik Party members near the remote Altai village of Bannoye. He and Aksyonov are now being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison.

Limonov’s lawyer Sergei Belyak said the FSB on Tuesday charged his client and Aksyonov with belonging to a group involved in the illegal procurement of weapons. If found guilty, they each face up to eight years in prison. (more…)

Limonov Arrested in Weapons Probe

Monday, April 16th, 2001

limonovEduard Limonov, an author and head of the ultranationalist National Bolshevik Party, has been arrested on suspicion of participating in the illegal procurement of weapons, according to media reports.

The Federal Security Service arrested Limonov and an unspecified number of National Bolshevik Party members across Russia last week and has opened an investigation into whether they “were attempting to illegally acquire large consignments of firearms, ammunition and explosives,” the Kremlin-connected Strana.ru web site reported Saturday.  (more…)