We have met inside of Leningradski railroad station at midnight. Kasparov with his body guards, surrounded by liberal looking people from United Civic Front, as well as young, huge, skin-headed Sergei Udaltsov with his boys from Red Youth, and us - National Bolsheviks, who made more than a half of the crowd of one hundred. Later, the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentino Matvienko, would label us as “two carriages of agent-provocateurs from Moscow.”
Some groups of plain-clothed policemen were spread over Leningradski rail-road station building. We were ready to their attempt to arrest us here, in Moscow, but plainclothes policemen didn’t move when we started our move to platform. They have let us go. We boarded our train.
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.
On August 29, in the evening, at about 8.06 p.m. the group of thugs, wearing black masks and white gloves have attacked meeting of Moscow regional organization of National-Bolsheviks Party. It was crowd of more than thirty thugs, armed with pneumatical pistols, baseball bats, and “fires,” used by football fanats.
Building near metro “Avtozavodskaia” was guarded by seven National-Bolsheviks, two of them girls. But they stand up bravely against assault. Four NBP activists were wounded: Dmitri Elizarov have both of his arms fractured, Stanislav Diakonov have three fractures on his head, he was also stabbed with knife. Van belonging to NB party was put on fire, its windows were broken. But no invader was let into buildings hall, not speaking about fours floor, were meeting took place. Receiving rebuff assailants fleed towards the bus, N576 “Moscow-Korolev,” what have deposited them earlier.
Yesterday, the Moscow Mayor’s Office held a conference on “The Activities of a Responsible Opposition in Revolutionary Conditions.” Members of opposition parties and movements amicably condemned the policies of Vladimir Putin and called for a battle against the ruling regime. But they were unable to agree on the forms of that battle. Yury Chernega reports.
To understand where we are, it is extremely useful to take a detached view of ourselves. Now many are expressing their opinion about the party. I will cite only the most interesting opinions. Dmitry Olshanski, political analyst, in the article “The Beginning of History”: “Nazbols seized the Health Ministry. The Society has not yet recalled the right word - narodovolets(members of the People’s Will organisation)! But the horrible sentence has already returned the relation of cause and effect to its place: the years of detention increase depending on the number of floors the portrait of the autocrat, thrown out of the window, had the bad luck to fly by. It is indicative that the NBP wasn’t invited to the two pitiful political congresses in December(both democratic and patriots’) - living people, existing in the historical time, are not among the actors’ of the burnt theater favourits. Nevertheless, it is the story with the Health Ministry, but not the theatrical howls of Rogozin and “The Committee 2008″, that we’ll have to remember. Such ridiculous, naive, insolent, irregular national-bolsheviks proved to be the only, though spontaneous, opponents of the monstrous State Building. The subjects of the complicated politics, but not its capricious and breaking objects”.
The mass protest after Putin’s adoption of law about cancellation of privileges. St.-Petersburg, on January, 11-19th, 2005. Participated NBP, “Yabloko”.
At 10:45 a.m. on August 2, about 30 members of National-Bolsheviks Party arrived to the main entrance of Russian Ministry of Health Care at Rakhmanovski pereulok in Moscow. Some of them were wearing a green overalls, pretending to be workers. They presented themselves as a team of sanitarians, arrived to do a disinfection of ministry premises. So they asked clerks to live for a while. Office workers have agreeably obeyed orders. National-Bolsheviks have occupied offices of Minister Zurabov, as well as a few other offices on the second and third floor. They opened the windows, fixed National-Bolsheviks flags out of the windows. Then they start to shout slogans and throw leaflets out of the windows.
They shouted, “Zurabov is enemy of the people!”, “For our elders we’ll cut your ears!”, “Privileges to the people, Ministers to the guillotine!”, “To people — free medicine, ministers to the guillotine!” (more…)
A group of activists of the radical National Bolshevik Party stormed the Health Ministry headquarters on August 2 to protest the government’s plan to replace Soviet-era benefits with cash payments. Protestors were detained by the police after they seized one of the ministry’s offices shouting antigovernment slogans from the window and waving flags. In a statement released by the NBP following their detention, the party said its members were savagely battered by FSB officers at the Tverskoye police department.
In an interview to Gazeta.Ru, Eduard Limonov, a novelist, leader and founder of the NBP, comments on the incident.
For the last half-year NBP demonstrated that often in political struggle tomatoes and eggs are a more effective weapon than bombs and money. When they shot Veshnyakov with mayonnaise and made an omelet of Kasyanov - this is called “velvet terrorism”.
The tomato attacks on officials from the highest echelons of power developed through the entire Russia quickly transformed the nazbols from crackheads and delinquents in fighters with corrupt bureaucracy and defenders of the Russian people. (more…)
My personal worst moment of the year 2003 was late afternoon January 31st. At Saratov’s Districts Court, public prosecutor Colonel Verbin demanded for me quarter of century of imprisonment. Ten years of imprisonment for allegedly planning terrorist attacks on territory of Kazakhstan, 4 years for preparation to organize outlawed armed formations, 8 years for a purchase of Kalashnikovs and 3 years for a call to overthrow the Government of Russian Federation. Exactly 25 years demanded Verbin, that tall and skinny as a match colonel, wearing blue uniform of Prosecutor.
But “by the way of partial reduction” merciful and compassionate Russian Justice, personified by colonel, demanded for me “only” 14 years of imprisonment in the camp of “severe regime.” It was worstiest day of 2003. But going to court on February 4, just a few days later, early in the morning I saw on television face of my wife, Natasha. Television said that my wife have died as a saint during her sleep at night from 2 to 3rd February. Then, until the day of April 15, I have lived under the heavy burden of 14 years. On April 15 I was miraculously sentenced to 4 years. I know, I wrote about that, but anyway, it was my worst season of life. (more…)
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. 
On August 29, in the evening, at about 8.06 p.m. the group of thugs, wearing black masks and white gloves have attacked meeting of Moscow regional organization of National-Bolsheviks Party. It was crowd of more than thirty thugs, armed with pneumatical pistols, baseball bats, and “fires,” used by football fanats.
At 10:45 a.m. on August 2, about 30 members of National-Bolsheviks Party arrived to the main entrance of Russian Ministry of Health Care at Rakhmanovski pereulok in Moscow. Some of them were wearing a green overalls, pretending to be workers. They presented themselves as a team of sanitarians, arrived to do a disinfection of ministry premises. So they asked clerks to live for a while. Office workers have agreeably obeyed orders. National-Bolsheviks have occupied offices of Minister Zurabov, as well as a few other offices on the second and third floor. They opened the windows, fixed National-Bolsheviks flags out of the windows. Then they start to shout slogans and throw leaflets out of the windows.
For the last half-year NBP demonstrated that often in political struggle tomatoes and eggs are a more effective weapon than bombs and money. When they shot Veshnyakov with mayonnaise and made an omelet of Kasyanov - this is called “velvet terrorism”.