Posts Tagged ‘Limonov’

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…)

Protesting on the Roof

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Activists of National-Bolshevik Party(NBP) on the roof of Nikulinsky district court hold a crude poster:" Putin, leave by yourself!"// National-Bolsheviks climbed the roof of Nikulinsky court building

Action of Protest

Yesterday, activists from National Bolshevik Party (NBP) seized Nikulinsky court in Moscow. They hanged on the roof a makeshift poster: “Putin, leave by yourself!”

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Most National Bolsheviks Suspended

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Activists of the National Bolshevik Party gather near Nikulinsky court. Of 39 activists, who occupied a reception office of president’s administration December 14, 2004, 31 were given suspended sentence and eight were condemned to from a year and a half to three years and a half.

Of 39 activists of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), who occupied a reception office of president’s staff a year ago, eight were sentenced to from two to three and a half years of prison December 8, 2005; 31 activists got suspended sentences and were freed right in the court hall. NBP leader, Eduard Limonov called the sentences “savage punishment targeted at scaring opposition parties.”

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National Bolsheviks’ Offices Stormed

Friday, November 25th, 2005

A group of men in civilian clothing accompanied by police broke into the headquarters of the National Bolshevik Party on Thursday and demanded that party members evacuate the premises, a NBP spokesman said. It was the second attempt in two days to evict the party.

Three carloads of men in plainclothes, accompanied by police, arrived at the NBP basement headquarters on Kashirskoye Shosse at around 1:30 p.m. and broke through the metal door before ordering party members to leave, NBP spokesman Alexander Averin said by telephone Thursday evening. (more…)

Supreme Court Bans Bolsheviks

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Eduard Limonov, leader of the radical National Bolshevik PartyThe Supreme Court on Tuesday re-imposed a ban on the radical National Bolshevik Party, or NBP, reversing its own decision earlier this year to cancel a ban imposed by a lower court.

“This was a historic humiliation for the Supreme Court,” NBP leader Eduard Limonov said after the verdict. “Big players such as the Prosecutor General’s Office intervened and pressed the judges to discard their previous verdict.”

The court did not publish any reason for Tuesday’s decision, and no one answered the telephone at the Supreme Court’s press office on Tuesday afternoon. (more…)

Limonov: Each Year I Get Closer to Islam

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

LimonovEdward Limonov is a complex and a contradictory figure. One of the greatest modern Russian writers, today he is more famous as a politician.
In the outgoing year, Limonov has made several steps towards Islam and Muslims. What has driven him to this? What is his message to the Muslims of Russia and the world? What does he think about Islam and actual problems related to it?
These are the questions we tried to clarify from him directly.

- Recently you published the notorious article “The Islam Card”. As far as we know, your positive attitude towards Muslims and their religion was greatly influenced by your prison experience when you were jailed in Lefortovo in a cell with the Chechen Aslanbek Alkhazurov, which was written in one of your books. Were there other factors that prompted you to look at Islam with sympathy?

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Savenko and Savendo

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Extremely blessed by God are those great men, who have received their great family names by Nature, by birth. Mozart sounds great, and even more impressive when pronounced together with Wolfgang Amadeus. It sounds as symphony in itself: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It sounds at least as first syllables of symphony.

Nietzsche is also great name appropriate for philosopher of Negation. At least in Russian its sounds like Niet zche, translated as repeated negation: not, categorically not! Some researchers, specialists of Nietzsche biography, have suspicions that Nietzsche’s family have Slavic origins. If so, then it is very revealing name: not, categorically not.

Adolf Hitler is also revealing name specially when one knows that until certain time Hitler’s family names was that of Schiklgruber. Please, note that probably fatal letter “l” what is present in Adolf’s first name, as well as in both family names: Hitler and Schiklgruber. Same “l” is present in Nazis salutation to its fuehrer: Heil Hitler. What does it mean I don’t know, but means something, I believe it. May be it is in some connection with a word “Evil”?

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Masked Men Attack NBP Activists

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

A baseball bat Masked men wielding baseball bats and gas pistols, several of whom were wearing T-shirts bearing the emblem of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, attacked a group of National Bolshevik Party activists Monday night, activists who witnessed the incident said Tuesday.

The attack, which witnesses said lasted only a few minutes, left three people hospitalized. Opposition youth activists and political leaders accused Nashi of carrying out a well-planned attack against the Kremlin’s political opponents and warned of an escalating conflict. Nashi, or Us, which has condemned radical youth groups as “fascists” and proclaimed them to be its primary political foes, denied any connection to the attack. (more…)

A New Life for Orderly Lefortovo

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

Lefortovo prisonWhen 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…)