When 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…)
Like smart scullions they scurry about political kitchen without getting tired and pleasing the gourmets with exotic dishes (”Nikita Mikhalkov With Eggs”, “Chubais Under Mayonnaise” and others). Also they are publishing their newspaper, which one mustn’t publish neither in good conscience, nor according to the law (those who’ve read it know why).
They are withdrawn a licence, scolded for extremism, but they don’t care a straw. There was “Limonka”, now it’s “General Line”. If “General Line” is banned, limonovists will certainly invent something else. The Central Committee of the NBP member Nina Silina (sounds extremely seriously, but in fact it’s a good-looking smiling girl) has told us about the secrets of fantastic vitality of the party.
“Advokat Belyak” (”The lawyer Belyak”) - the Bullet. Song on Edward Limonov’s verses. Shots from process over leader NBP Edward Limonov and nazbols Sergey Aksionov, Vladimir Pentiljuk, Nina Silina in court of the city Saratov. Limonov and nazbols were accused of purchase of the weapon and attempt of overthrow of the power in the totalitarian state Kazakhstan. Studio AIR clip.
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…)
When 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.
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.”