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  Eduard Limonov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eduard Limonov (Russian: Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов, real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko; born 1944) is a Russian nationalist writer and dissident, and is the founder and leader of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party.
Limonov was jailed in April, 2001 on charges of terrorism, the forced overthrow of the constitutional order, and the illegal purchase of weapons.
Limonov is a strong supporter of Serbia and achieved notoriety by joining a sniper patrol in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the civil war in Yugoslavia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eduard_Limonov   (1000 words)

  
 Sobaka :: Justice for Some   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov was at that time hacking away at a typewriter and speaking to disaffected punks, declassé intellectuals and the others who rally to his side.
Limonov is, of course, an "extremist," while Zakayev's boss, Aslan Maskhadov, is a "moderate." Compared to some of the other Chechen field commanders, this is an accurate representation.
It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights." The trial of Eduard Limonov is still going on, and yet have a chance to prove that in their understanding, human rights apply to everyone, and not just those who espouse a similar Leftist vision of the world.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2002/limonov.html   (1378 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Maverick writer freed
Limonov was taken into custody in April 2001 on charges of illegally purchasing and possessing weapons, plotting terrorist attacks and the forced overthrow of the constitutional order.
Limonov had already served over half of his 4-year sentence, mostly in pre-trial detention, and did not have any recorded violations in that time, the Saratov regional judicial department told reporters.
Limonov refuted all the charges brought against him and claims the trial was politically motivated.
www.gazeta.ru /2003/06/30/Maverickwrit.shtml   (669 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - Limonov sentenced to 4 years for insurgency
Limonov has refuted all the charges brought against him and claims the trial was politically motivated.
As for Limonov himself, he, in particular, denied the allegation that he was the author of the article entitled ''The Theory of a Second Russia'' which the prosecutors insist, contains a plan to overthrow the established order.
Limonov was arrested on April 7, 2001 in the South Siberian Republic of Altai and initially charged with the illegal acquisition of firearms.
www.gazeta.ru /2003/04/15/Limonovsente.shtml   (844 words)

  
 FOM: Public Opinion Foundation (Russia) > Eduard Limonov and the National-Bolshevik Party
In spite of the constant media attention towards the National-Bolshevik Party, its leader Eduard Limonov, and the party’s noisy protest actions, the party is not well-known to Russians: 31% of those surveyed say they know or have heard something about it, while 62% have not heard of it.
Explaining their position, these respondents say Limonov and his party "stand for the interests of ordinary people", "make a stand for the rights of the root Russians and the nation’s revival", and "their aim is to cleanse Russia of people from the Caucasus" (1% each among all those surveyed).
Limonov’s followers provoke antipathy with their nationalistic ideology (respondents probably draw this conclusion from the party’s name): "they are close to the fascists" (8%).
bd.english.fom.ru /report/map/projects/finfo/eof0519/eof051906   (735 words)

  
 BakuSun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Eduard Limonov, outspoken leader of the small National Bolshevik Party, is being tried in the southern Russian city of Saratov with five colleagues, ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
Limonov and the head of his party’s newspaper, Sergei Aksyonov, are also accused of calling for a change in Russia’s constitutional order — a suggestion that they urged the government’s overthrow.
Limonov, a critic of the Soviet system who lived abroad for many years, returned to Russia and became an extreme nationalist, lamenting the Soviet breakup, championing the cause of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics and denouncing the United States and the West.
www.bakusun.az /cgi-bin/ayten/bakusun/show.cgi?code=2760   (271 words)

  
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Limonov's followers have pelted the prime minister with an egg and squirted the chief of Russia's electoral commission with mayonnaise.
Limonov's movement raised its profile during 2003 parliamentary elections, which took place shortly after he was released from prison early for good behavior.
Limonov's followers held a sit-in at the offices of the presidential administration in the center of Moscow.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/050Compecon/Soviet/Russia/050331radical.txt   (2087 words)

  
 National-Bolshevik Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleksandr Dugin was amongst the earliest members and was instrumental in convincing Limonov to enter the political arena.
As for Dugin, Limonov denounced his conservatism and submissiveness to the regime.
On the national arena, the party is highly critical of the government of Vladimir Putin and considers state institutions such as the bureaucracy, the police and the courts to be corrupt and authoritarian.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party   (801 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Russian author freed on parole
Eduard Limonov was released for good behaviour after serving half of his four-year sentence in the southern Saratov region.
Limonov, the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, was convicted in April along with five others but had spent time in custody before the trial.
Limonov said after his parole was announced that he would not abandon his convictions but would try to behave like a good citizen.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3031518.stm   (321 words)

  
 Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Prominent features of Eduard Limonov's biographical legend include his brief employment as a tailor and his interest in fashion, both of which emerge as biographical and literary facts during Limonov's creative period.
The persona of Limonov the tailor is exhibited in Limonov's poetry, autobiographical prose, and extraliterary genres such as photographs and interviews.
Limonov denies any dependence on previous literary models, and critical comparisons of Limonov with a wildly diverse range of authors complicate the issue of literary influence.
aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2001/abstracts/Wakamiya.html   (393 words)

  
 Russia - Censorship - Sorokin - Worldpress.org
The cases of writer-terrorist Eduard Limonov [leader of the National Bolshevik Party] and pornographic writer Vladimir Sorokin have captured the attention of the press, politicians, and the average reading public.
Limonov’s trial is unfolding in the genre of the state-security thriller.
Limonov and Sorokin have different literary destinies and manners of writing; therefore they are going to be tried on different criminal charges.
www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=831&dont=yes   (943 words)

  
 Cornelllibreview6
Eduard Limonov (Eduard Savenko) is a prose writer and poet belonging to the third wave of Russian emigration, the main flood of which occurred between 1973 and 1981.
Limonov's writings as well as he himself are the targets of extremely contrasting opinions and impassioned polemics for a variety of reasons.
Limonov firmly rejects the depressing ghetto of Russian emigre literature,refusing to be a "citizen writer." Nevertheless, his popularity appears to thrive on the controversy that surrounds him, his novels being translated throughout the Western world.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/cornelllibreview6.htm   (2350 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Extremist Leader Paroled
Limonov's lawyer Sergei Belyak said his client is expected to be freed on June 27 or 28, when the court ruling comes into force.
Limonov and his defense are going to appeal to the Russian Supreme Court, seeking to have his sentence invalidated.
Limonov was arrested on weapons charges in the Russian internal republic of Altai on April 7, 2001.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/061803Russia.shtml   (832 words)

  
 National-Bolshevik
Nazbol leader Eduard Limonov during the war in Bosnia was a mercenary and served as a sniper for the Bosnian-Serb Army.
Limonov had admired the Serbian tactics for creating a Greater Serbia, and admired the ideas and action of Chetniks such as Radovan Karadzic, Vojislav Seselj, Vuk Draskovic, and Arkan of the cleansing of non-Serbs in the Serbian areas.
Limonov applied this goal into the National-Bolshevik program for Russia to extend the borders of Russia into other former Soviet republics where there are large populations of ethnic Russians.
www.geocities.com /h_marroquin/National-Bolshevik.html   (2420 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov is a writer who continuously draws inspiration from his own life story.
In the course of Limonov’s growing reputation as an underground poet, his days of extreme poverty eventually gave way to glamorous receptions at the Venezuelan embassy, under the auspices of the ambassador Régulo Burelli Rivas, a patron of the arts.
Limonov attended these in the company of his wife, Elena Shchapova, a model and a socialite, whom he had married in 1973.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6015   (504 words)

  
 Russian National Bolshevik Leader Sends Open Letter to Putin - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov said the authorities were using repressive measures against the NBP, highlighting the incident when the party’s activists were reportedly beaten up by members of the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement on Aug. 29.
Limonov said that “the president should be told that he is acting in an abominable way, that his actions are worthy of Watergate and that in a normal country they would have led to a dismissal and possibly a trial in court”.
Eduard Limonov himself was detained in 2001 on charges of planning terrorist acts, establishing armed units etc. and spent several months in prison in 2003.
www.mosnews.com /news/2005/09/11/banonrally.shtml   (663 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - News - Limonov Set To Get Early Prison Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov, who has already served more than two years of the sentence, mostly in pretrial detention, could be freed on parole in 10 days.
In convicting Limonov, the Saratov regional court also sentenced Sergei Aksyonov, the 32-year-old editor of the National Bolshevik Party's Limonka newspaper, to 3 1/2 years in prison on charges of illegally acquiring weapons and being a member of an organized criminal group.
Limonov has written numerous books and articles critical of the government, and his party has gained notoriety for holding violent demonstrations in former Soviet republics such as Latvia, ostensibly to defend the rights of ethnic Russians living there.
www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=10324   (526 words)

  
 Russia: National Bolsheviks, The Party Of 'Direct Action' - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov soon moved to Paris, where he became a member of the French avant-garde literary salons and joined forces with French and European leftist and neo-rightist political radicals, including French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
In April 2001 Limonov himself and a group of his followers were arrested by the FSB in Altai under accusations of terrorism and preparing an armed rebellion in Kazakhstan.
Under pressure from State Duma deputies, Limonov was released in June 2003 and continued his political evolution toward a coalition with democratic forces and the left-wing opposition against the Kremlin.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/04/c46f0495-183f-42f8-aa39-6de55e8f6fb6.html   (1582 words)

  
 CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
Limonov (center left) was freed last year after serving time for a weapons conviction.
The life of the controversial writer Eduard Limonov has been nothing if not colorful: a stint in exile as a Soviet dissident, literary success in the West, and now notoriety as leader of the radical National Bolshevik Party.
Limonov received the script, written by director Alexander Veledinsky, through his lawyer while awaiting trial in Moscow's Lefortovo prison for an arms offence, and agreed to it immediately, taking no further part in the production process.
context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/09/03/106.html   (1033 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Eduard Limonov had been teasing the crocodile long and hard, giving it fillips on the nose, pulling its tail, and occasionally offering it friendship and cooperation.
They waxed ironic about Limonov's part in the National Bolsheviks' public displays: The Fuhrer sends his young stormtroopers to disfigure the Latvian Embassy facade and scatter about leaflets in Sevastopol; the milksops are tried for terrorism while their leader is writing features on heroism and recruits new yobs to fill his Black Shirt squads.
If I were Limonov's counsel for the defense, I would think twice before trying to prove that he has committed no acts of "heroism" but simply made up the lot, in the manner of Baron Munchausen.
english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2002-34-19   (765 words)

  
 Limonov Declares Victory Over FSB / Analysis / Global alternative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov and Aksyonov, who appeared downcast when the hearing started, began to relax and smile as Matrosov droned on, announcing the dismissal of charges that they had plotted to overthrow the government, created illegal armed formations and planned terrorist acts.
Limonov and Aksyonov were accused of masterminding a plan to carry out an armed invasion of northern Kazakhstan, which is populated mostly by ethnic Russians.
Limonov has written numerous books and articles critical of the government, and his party has gained notoriety for holding demonstrations in other former Soviet republics, ostensibly to defend the rights of ethnic Russians living there.
www.aglob.ru /en/events/index.php?id=135   (1234 words)

  
 [lbo-talk] Eduard Limonov off the hook
The Saratov Regional Court sentenced Eduard Savenko, better known under his writer's pseudonym Limonov, to 4 years in a common regime labour camp in April of this year.
Furthermore, the prosecution insisted that both Aksyonov and Limonov were guilty of calls for the armed overthrow of the state regime.
Criminal proceedings were instigated against the group and the investigators acquired evidence of Limonov's involvement in the deal.
mailman.lbo-talk.org /2003/2003-June/016667.html   (717 words)

  
 Russia, Politics, National Bolsheviks - JRL 4-30-05
In 1994 Limonov launched the extremist ultranationalist newspaper "Limonka," which quickly began to attract various groups of young people frustrated by the hardships of reforms and embittered at the West.
Armed by his political experience in the West, Limonov proposed the creation of "revolutionary party of a new style" that could attract young people with a combination of extremist ultranationalist propaganda and "direct action" as practiced during the Maoist student protest in France and other European countries in 1968.
Limonov awaited trial in jail until February 2003, when he was sentenced to four years in prison.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/9135-14.cfm   (1509 words)

  
 National Bolshevik Party
Limonov was involved in the illegal weapons trade.
It will be even worse for us if the case is tried in Gorno-Altaisk." Limonov's comrade is convinced that the real reason the FSB wants to have Limonov's case tried as far away from the capital as possible is that the special services do not have enough evidence to imprison him.
Limonov's supporters agree that if their leader's case is forwarded to Altai, they will not be able to save him from lengthy imprisonment.
mailman.lbo-talk.org /2002/2002-April/009830.html   (705 words)

  
 The Moscow News
Investigators attributed the authorship of this material to Eduard Limonov and used that as grounds for charging him with an appeal for the overthrow of the existing constitutional system.
Yet in late 2001, Limonov and Aksenov also came to be suspected of preparing terrorist acts, creating illegal armed formations, and calling for the overthrow of the constitutional system.
"Limonov's works are a continual report about himself," said Alexander Prokhanov, a novelist and editor of the leftist opposition Den newspaper who also testified at the hearing.
english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2002-46-14   (479 words)

  
 Freezerbox Magazine - Who's Afraid of Edward Limonov?
In 1974, Limonov, who had gained fame in Moscow's unofficial and underground art world as a leading avant-garde poet, was subjected to repeated KGB harassment and finally expelled from the Soviet Union, along with what became known as the "Third Wave" of Soviet dissidents.
Meanwhile, Limonov is running in the March 31 elections for a vacated seat in the state Duma in Dzherzhinsk, considered to be among the most polluted cities in Russia.
When Limonov arrived in New York in 1974, he quickly grew into the role of a dissident within the dissident movement, arguing that the West was in many ways just a more sophisticated version of the Soviet Union, with more sophisticated propaganda, and just as little tolerance for true dissent.
www.freezerbox.com /archive/article.php?id=189   (1838 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - News - Ultranationalist Gets His Say in Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Limonov is also charged with calling for a violent overthrow of the government, as is one other defendant, Sergei Aksyonov, owner of the party-affiliated newspaper, Limonka.
Limonov has been in prison since April 2001, when a squad of security officers detained him, Aksyonov and four more party members outside the remote village of Bannoye in the Altai region, near the border with Kazakhstan.
Limonov himself characterized his party as a loose, unstructured group "more like a veterans' club or an amateur choir," and its members as "naive young patriots" whom he had no real means of controlling.
www.times.spb.ru /story/8761   (1324 words)

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