Vladimir Bukovsky at the Indpendent Press Center in Moscow
Photo: Yury Martyanov
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Vladimir Bukovsky Ready to Fight FSB
Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who lived for many years in Great Britain, presented his presidential campaign manifest in Moscow yesterday. He says that the numerous democratic presidential candidates that have announced themselves will succeed in agreeing on a single democratic opposition candidate. Bukovsky's chances if becoming that candidate are small.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, manager of Bukovsky's initiative group, called the candidate “someone who knows how to beat chekists,” using a Russian term referring to agents of the Soviet/Russian security services. The topic of fighting chekists is prominent in Bukovsky's campaign materials. Kara-Murzxa said that the candidate's goal is to present a clear alternative to the current regime.
“Authority in the country has been fully and wholly usurped by chekists, as in the Bourbon period of the Restoration, and they didn't understand anything and didn't learn anything. They declared the collapse of the Soviet Union a disaster and are methodically and stubbornly restoring the Soviet regime,” Bukovsky said.
Bukovsky also said that he has no personal political ambitions and that the democratic candidate with the greatest chances of victory should be the one to run for president. The Central Elections Commission has pointed out that the law “On Presidential Elections” requires to have lived in Russia for the last unbroken ten years.” Bukovsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1976. In addition, he has dual British and Russian citizenship, which is also prohibited for presidential candidates. Kara-Murza challenged that prohibition in the Constitutional Court in May of this year, and his challenge is scheduled to be heard on November 1.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 18, 2007
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