I wrote this article in Lefortovo prison. It turned out to be a creative mission instead of a serious time in jail. But Lefortovo is such a prison that even less than 3 weeks here is enough to become imbued with proud cosciousness of a Russian State prisoner. One does not simply write in there but prophecy. As it is now customary, I`d like to thank my fellow inmates Denis and Arsen who kept “creative” silence and also the prison guards who gave me a pen and a paper as soon as I requested.
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Holiday Of Immortality
Wednesday, October 8th, 2003Raimond Krumgold: A Bomb for President
Thursday, June 26th, 2003
At the end of last week Dvinsk national-bolsheviks Artur Petrov and Raimond Krumgold were released from the Riga Central Prison under the police surveillance. The fellows from Daugavpils were arrested last year on the 20th of November accused of “calling to violent overthrowing of power”.
The fact that sooner or later the Dvinsk national-bolsheviks were to be released was beyond any doubt. Judgind by the present-day situation, the Dvinsk “limonovists” even have a chance to get a welfare from the Ministry of Justice fund for having been unlawfully imprisoned. Our brave police has got into an embarassing position once again.
Limonov Fights ‘The System’ in Court
Friday, December 6th, 2002
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…)