Posts Tagged ‘Soviet Union’
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Opposition groups release a new collection of protest songs.
Russian rock music, which was in didactic opposition to the Soviet Union before its fall in the early 90s, has lately tended to compromise with the increasingly authoritarian Kremlin rather than challenge it.
Some leading Russian rock figures, for instance, entertained the Kremlin-backed youth movement Nashi at its summer camp on Lake Seliger in 2005 and 2006 as well as performed on Red Square to celebrate the election of Dmitry Medvedev to the presidency on March 2 this year. (more…)
Tags: Dissenters March, Khodorkovsky, Kremlin, Limonov, Medvedev, music, NBP, OMON, Other Russia, protest, Skovorodnikov, songs, Soviet Union
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Mark Ames asked me to write about National-Bolsheviks’ Party and punks movement. So I am forced to take a look at my past, despite the fact that I am very much involved in the present time, because Mark.
I have arrived to New York City from Soviet Union in February, 1975. That was exactly the year punk movement was born. The first what I see of punks in 1976 was fanzine called “Punk.” It was sort of samizdat publication, black and white, formatted A4 size, made on Xerox machine. One of the editors had a strange name — Legs McNeil. That name “Legs” have shocked me. It was a lot of comics inside and caricatures. I remember one where a girl denied some guy his invitation to dance. She said, “Sorry but no, I only dance with faggots.”
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Tags: Ames, FBI, Letov, Limonka, Markie Ramone, NBP, Prilepin, punk, Reviakin, Rotten, Soviet Union, Troitski, Tsvetkov, United States, Vicious
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Sunday, January 4th, 2004
Last week, National Bolshevik leader and eXile hero Edward Limonov sat down with eXile editors Mark Ames, John Dolan and Jake Rudnitsky to discuss politics and literature. What follows is the first part of the roundtable, in which we cover Russian and world politics at the turn of the century. Next issue we will print our discussion about Limonov’s own books, the practical side of writing, and his views on what makes for quality literature.
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Tags: Abkhazia, Ames, Asia, Chechnya, China, Dolan, FBI, FSB, Georgia, Gorbachev, Hitler, Limonov, Muslim, Putin, Rudnitsky, Soviet Union, United States, Yeltsin
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Friday, April 20th, 2001
The Federal Security Service has charged Eduard Limonov, a radical writer and head of the National Bolshevik Party, with participating in the illegal procurement of weapons.
Limonov was arrested on April 7 with Sergei Aksyonov, editor of the Limonka newspaper, and six other National Bolshevik Party members near the remote Altai village of Bannoye. He and Aksyonov are now being held at Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison.
Limonov’s lawyer Sergei Belyak said the FSB on Tuesday charged his client and Aksyonov with belonging to a group involved in the illegal procurement of weapons. If found guilty, they each face up to eight years in prison. (more…)
Tags: Aksyonov, Bakhor, Bannoye, Belyak, Bykov, egg, FSB, Kremlin, Lebed, Lefortovo, Limonka, Limonov, Mikhailkov, prison, Putin, radical, Samara, Soviet Union, Tishin, Ufa, writer
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