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.”
September 14, 10 a.m. I’am alerted by telephone call from Party headquarters. Our boys have occupied carriage of “Moscow-Kaliningrad train” - said voice.”They just called by mobile-phone from that carriage. From lituanian rail-way station Kena, on the border.”
“Who they are?” asked I.
“Collected team from Moscow, Saint-Petersbourgh, Omsk, Nijni Novgorod, Briansk, Tula and Orenbourgh, also Tcheboksari. Sixteen camarades. They have chained themselves to a metal frames of carriage, then they teared to pieces lituanian transit visas. ‘We are going from Russia to Russia. We don’t need visas,’ – they said to lituanian frontier guards. They also blocked the locks by injecting a glue in them.”‘About the same time participants of action giving an interviews to radio “Eco of Moscow”. (more…)