Eduard Limonov says the verdict will make it possible to arrest any people associated with the National Bolshevik Party.
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Court Outlaws National Bolsheviks
The Moscow City Court on Thursday declared the National Bolshevik Party an extremist organization, outlawing its activities. Eduard Limonov, leader of this unregistered organization, believes that the court decision opens a campaign “mass state purges”. The ruling makes possible for the authorities to arrest anyone who takes part in the party’s activities.
The court also ruled to satisfy a request from prosecutors to ban the organization. Writer Eduard Limonov, who founded the organization in 1993, called the ruling “politically motivated and unjust.”
Eduard Limonov insisted that the organization had ceased to exist in 2005 when the Supreme Court annulled its registration. He said he could not be the head of an organization that did not exist.
The National Bolshevik leader said he expected a wave of criminal investigations to be opened against people associated with the organization.
Participation in an extremist organization is punishable by a fine of 200,000 rubles or two years in prison.
“The verdict symbolizes a transition from a police state to a fascist-like one,” Eduard Limonov said Thursday in an interview with Kommersant.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 20, 2007
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