SERPUKHOV, Moscow Region — Yury Chervochkin had no Internet connection at his apartment in this industrial town 100 kilometers south of Moscow where he lived with his mother and younger brother.
So when the 22-year-old opposition activist was released from police custody on the evening of Nov. 22, 2007, he went straight to the Internet cafe Portal in the center of town to post an account of his detention on an opposition blog community.
British Newspaper Hacks “Other Russia” Story To Bits
I am thinking now that I am working for “Exile” as reporter, being in same time active participant and even architect of Russian History. Thus, the first Congress of “Other Russia” held in Moscow’s Izmailovo Hotel on September 30 was planned and executed by Garry Kasparov and me. As to the idea of participation in the comping Russian parliamentary elections it was entirely my idea. I expressed that idea two years ago, and steadily, have promoted it inside of the Other Russia coalition. Finally it was accepted by my colleagues in the coalition. On October 1st, Kasparov and me, we visited Central Electoral Commission and have handed over the list of candidates for elections of deputies of a State Duma. What I want to say, that I am reporter who is reporting on activity of Edward Limonov–who is oppositional politician. Unusual situation, isn’t it?
When 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…)
To understand where we are, it is extremely useful to take a detached view of ourselves. Now many are expressing their opinion about the party. I will cite only the most interesting opinions. Dmitry Olshanski, political analyst, in the article “The Beginning of History”: “Nazbols seized the Health Ministry. The Society has not yet recalled the right word - narodovolets(members of the People’s Will organisation)! But the horrible sentence has already returned the relation of cause and effect to its place: the years of detention increase depending on the number of floors the portrait of the autocrat, thrown out of the window, had the bad luck to fly by. It is indicative that the NBP wasn’t invited to the two pitiful political congresses in December(both democratic and patriots’) - living people, existing in the historical time, are not among the actors’ of the burnt theater favourits. Nevertheless, it is the story with the Health Ministry, but not the theatrical howls of Rogozin and “The Committee 2008″, that we’ll have to remember. Such ridiculous, naive, insolent, irregular national-bolsheviks proved to be the only, though spontaneous, opponents of the monstrous State Building. The subjects of the complicated politics, but not its capricious and breaking objects”.
Since the publication day of the last “General Line” issue many things have changed in our country. In dozens of Russian cities “benefits revolts” took place, where hundreds, thousands of furious pensioners came out on the streets, blocked the main streets of the cities and roads of national significance. In some cities, such as Piter, Kazan, Samara revolts lasted several days. In others they are happening now. The country is agitated. After the holidays, when they entered the metro, autobuses, trains, trolleybuses, the pensioners were faced with a cruel humiliation: the necessity to count their coins with their callous fingers, the fact that their pension booklets don’t guarantee them free rides anymore, they felt themselves last category citizens, used and cheated slaves. And the best of them, the most furious ones rebelled. This is a healthy behavior, a healthy instinct. The stupid state machine howled, stopped and backed for the first time. The angry, disappointed ministers and prosecutors hastily look for the responsible ones. And easily find them. The public prosecutor of the Samara region Mr. Efremov has declared already on January 12th that the organizers of the pensioners meeting in Samara, according to the prosecutor “are the national-bolsheviks from Edward Limonov’s party”. (more…)
The state went nuts; Putin’s state lost its mind from anger. It captured forty of our comrades who have come to the president’s Administration reception hall in order to express their protest against the actions of this president. The address to Putin of the forty national-bolsheviks ended with these words: “Find courage in yourself and resign. The faster you do that the better for Russia”. Our comrades, among them nine girls and eight minors weren’t only arrested, they were charged with monstrous absurd accusations on article 278 “Violent takeover of power or violent retention of power” (apart from the “usual” articles 214 and 167 part 2). The judiciary machine was started, the power seriously intends to commit a moral hara-kiri on itself, try a crowd of students who waved “RF Constitution” booklets in the President’s administration reception hall for a state crime. The sentences for this article are defined by 12 to 20 years of detention. Blinded by anger, Putin’s group went for a political crisis. Because the sentencing of forty students (imagine the hall of court sessions, forty accused in a cage, forty lawyers, a hundred guards, all this huge, large-scale medieval act!..) will cause a political crisis. And such that it won’t seem too little! If the harsh sentence to our seven comrades in the Tverskoy court caused the denunciation of Russia’s legal community and criticism even from the president’s supporters (like for example Vladimir Pligin, the chairman of the State Duma committee on constitutional legislation has denounced the sentence) then the trial and sentence of students on article 278 will rebel our society.
1.So, the V congress of our party took place. Moscow’s police and the special services breathed with relief and got sleep at last. Above (somewhere above) obviously the decision was taken not to counteract us, avoid a confrontation with us. One journalist accredited on the congress expressed the opinion that the power took seriously my announcement on a November 24th press conference that “the congress will be carried out even if we’re going to be shoot at”. We proved the firmness of our organization, we turned out to be stronger than ever the Russian Popular Unity was in 1999 when they were not allowed to have a congress and the delegates obediently returned home. That trick didn’t work with us. The congress took place and demonstrated our strength. About eight hundred national-bolsheviks declared about their strength in Moscow on November 28th, 29th, 30th and December 1st. (more…)
1) President Putin has no ideology. For his personal usage he is practicing belief in Supremacy of Russian Leaders Power. No matter how leader is named: Tzar or president or general secretary.
2) President Putin believe that Russian people are his subjects, not fellow citizens. Although Putin may call them “citizens,” he relates to him as subjects.
3) President Putin is arrogant towards his subjects. He never ever asked their opinion about important question of nation’s life. Even more: he aggressively doesn’t want to hear their opinions: Putin’s State Duma voted unanimously for such harsh procedures of public referendum that to stage a referendum in Russia is practically impossible. (more…)
Fellow, named Surkov, have addressed to nation huge piece of words, two entire pages of them, swarming as worms. 360 millimeters high and 560 millimeters wide. I am talking of course about Surkov’s now-famous interview to “Komsomolskaia Pravda” in its issue of September 29. Interview is intended to explain to Russian people, those who are readers of yellow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda Putin’s programme. Because our monarch Vladimir Putin have sended to his subjects his personal message by his personal footman Surkov.
Surkov is 40 years old, educated, graduated from “Institute of Steel” and from “Institute of International Affaires.” So he is educated footman, who worked in succession for Bank Menatep, for Yukos and Alfa Bank, then from 1999 Surkov is appointed to Putin’s Administration. Although born in willage Solntsevo in Lipetsk Region, he is not a man of people, but President’s man. He is probably very proud of himself, coming from village into Kremlin’s offices and halls. I bet he is enormously proud of himself.
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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.