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…)