// Kasparov’s United Civil Front Headquarters Searched
Yesterday 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…)
A few figures for the beginning. Now in Strasbourg European human rights court there are 42 claims of members of the National-Bolshevik Party against Russia, against the repressive and unfair decisions, taken by Russian courts.
Now 26 members of the National-Bolshevik Party are in prisons. Altogether 110 members of the NBP have passed through prisons since 1999. I draw your attention to the fact, that arrests and repressive court decisions started in 1999.
In the afternoon July 28 my phone burst with journalists’ calls. The Federal registration service of the Ministry of Justice and certain “Russian culture protection” proved to have threatened with legal liability the mass media, which would mention the NBP or the NBP officials. They say the NBP was liquidated in summer 2005 and wasn’t later registered by the Ministry of Justice. Journalists asked me to comment on that.
The definition “the state moronity”was my simplest explanation. I recalled history, I had to go deep, to possessed Roman Caesars, but even there I didn’t find any data about a prohibition to mention an insurgent tribe or a political organization. Neither Kaligula, nor Nero let themselves to commit such a foolishness. The only place, where the Ferderal registration service and “Russian culture protection” would be pertinent, is a play by Gogol or those of the Theater of the Absurd (Ionesko and Bekket, for example) and texts by Daniil Harms. That’s all. No, “1984″ by Oruell too.
A rally of over thousand was staged Wednesday in Moscow near Ostankino TV Center. The purpose was to protest against censorship on TV. The activists first buried a TV set, then broke it, declared love for Xenia Sobchak and demanded air for the opposition.
Exhibition “Freedom to political prisoners of NBP” (Israel, Haifa), gallery “Hottentot”. The Israeli comrades have demanded freedom to the Russian and Latvian political prisoners.
The exhibition consisted of pictures of nazbol-artists: Igor Cherchenko and Alexander Surd.
// 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!”
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.”
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…)
The 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…)
Yesterday 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…)
A few figures for the beginning. Now in Strasbourg European human rights court there are 42 claims of members of the National-Bolshevik Party against Russia, against the repressive and unfair decisions, taken by Russian courts.
A rally of over thousand was staged Wednesday in Moscow near Ostankino TV Center. The purpose was to protest against censorship on TV. The activists first buried a TV set, then broke it, declared love for Xenia Sobchak and demanded air for the opposition. 
// National-Bolsheviks climbed the roof of Nikulinsky court building
The 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.