Posts Tagged ‘Kasyanov’

Putin’s Pariah

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Edward Limonov, photo: Donald WeberCorrection Appended

It began inauspiciously. On a frozen afternoon in late November, as Moscow was draped with blocklong plastic billboards, banners and flags, each proclaiming a variation on a single theme — “POBEDA PUTINA — POBEDA ROSSII!” (“A Victory for Putin Is a Victory for Russia”) — a few thousand Russians converged on the city center for a rare act of political theater. It seemed, at first, like a tableau from the last days of the U.S.S.R., those heady months when glasnost swelled the streets with protesters. A handful of dissidents stood on a flatbed truck; a jumble of loudspeakers were stacked below; the crew of foreign reporters vastly outnumbered the local press; and across the way, the secret policemen with their unseen amplifiers were drowning the protest in canned laughter and Soviet waltzes. (more…)

Lugovoi Serves Death Threat To Limonov

Friday, June 29th, 2007

LugovoiOn June 15, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda have published an interview with Andrei Lugovoy, who is suspected by British police to be the executor of Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko’s story was a headliner for the world media for the last eight months and is a still a headliner. Exotical weapons used for killing — radioactive polonium — as well as personalities of both the victim (Litvinenko) and the suspected killer (Lugovoy), ex-FSB officers both, keeps interest of media boiling.

For me, nonetheless, it was a shocking surprise to discover that my name was pronounced by the sinister Mr.Lugovoy. During the interview, he said that political killing is in stage of preparation for “some man, who has already obtained the image of a fighter against existing Russian authorities, he is destined to become a sacred martyr. For example, so-called oppositional candidates to presidency. They should hire themselves an enormous security troop… Edward Limonov, Mikhail Kasyanov… I think against them something is in preparation.”

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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…)

“March of Dissent” Investigated for Extremism

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

// Kasparov’s United Civil Front Headquarters Searched

Garry KasparovYesterday commandos from the anti-terrorism unit of the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry searched the Moscow headquarters of Garry Kasparov’s United Civil Front party. The police, claiming that they were trying to head off any trouble that might arise during next Saturday’s “March of Dissent,” scoured the office for literature that could be construed as encouraging extremism. In return, Mr. Kasparov accused the ministry of “repression” and “intimidation.” (more…)

Komsomol under mayonnaise

Thursday, June 24th, 2004

NazbolsRussian 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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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…)

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…)