The campaign to clean up electioneering by Russia’s top electoral official, Alexander Veshnyakov, has got off to a bad start. As he closed a five-day conference involving 27 political parties at the Manezh exhibition centre in Moscow, the mud-slinging, or rather the mayonnaise-slinging, began.
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Dressing down for election chief
Thursday, August 28th, 2003The NBP Will
Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
The Manifesto “the NBP Will” is based on the ideas of the Leader expounded in the book “Another Russia”. The Manifesto reasonably combines these oracular ideas with the real experience of fighting saved up by the Party.
The Manifesto is not the NBP-program, not a concrete plan of action. It is more exact to name it a clot of the Party will put into words. The Party Energy concentrated into a fist.
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…)