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Limonka (newspaper)
''Limonka - newspaper of direct action'' (russian: Лимонка - газета прямого действия) is a Moscow-based newspaper. ''Limonka'' was the official organ of the National Bolshevik Party until it was banned in 2007; since 2010 it has been the official organ of The Other Russia. The name is a play of words on the party's founder surname Limonov and idiomatic Russian for '' grenade''. The organization was banned in 2002. History ''Limonka'' was founded by Eduard Limonov and it was first published in 1994. On July 26, 2002 it was banned by The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow for ''"promoting extremism and calling on overthrowing the constitutional order"''. Federal Agency on Press accused the newspaper of abuse of freedom of the press and violation of Article 4 of the Law "On Mass Media", pointing out that the publications in ''Limonka'' are aimed at inciting of social intolerance and discord and contain calls for the forcible seizure of power and propagan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, Sport, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 to April 2009. In August 1999, Islamist fighters from Chechnya infiltrated Russia's Dagestan region, violating Russia's borders. During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from December 1999 until February 2000. Russia established direct rule over Chechnya in May 2000 although Chechen militant resistance throughout the North Caucasus region continued to inflict heavy Russian casualties and challenge Russian political control over Chechnya for several years. Both sides carried out attacks against civilians. These attacks drew international condemnation. In mid-2000, the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Bolshevism
National Bolshevism (russian: национал-большевизм, natsional-bol'shevizm, german: Nationalbolschewismus), whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks (russian: национал-большевики, natsional-bol'sheviki) or Nazbols (russian: нацболы, natsboly), is a syncretic neo-fascist political movement from conservative revolutionary origins that combines ultranationalism and Bolshevism. Notable historical proponents of National Bolshevism in Germany included Ernst Niekisch (1889–1967), Heinrich Laufenberg (1872–1932), and Karl Otto Paetel (1906–1975). In Russia, Nikolay Ustryalov (1890–1937) and his followers, the Smenovekhovtsy, used the term. Notable modern advocates of the movement include Aleksandr Dugin and Eduard Limonov, the leader of the unregistered and banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP) in the Russian Federation. History and origins In Germany National Bolshevism as a term was first used to describe a current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Of The Press In The Russian Federation
Media freedom in Russia concerns both the ability of directors of mass-media outlets to carry out independent policies and the ability of journalists to access Source (journalism), sources of information and to work without outside pressure. Media of Russia include television and radio channels, periodicals, and Internet media, which according to the laws of the Russian Federation may be either state or private property. , Russia ranked 155 out of 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. In the 2017 Freedom House Freedom of the Press (report), ''Freedom of the Press'' report Russia scored 83 (100 being the worst), mostly because of new laws introduced in 2014 that further extended the state control over mass media. Freedom House characterized the situation as even worse in Crimea where, after the 2014 Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexation by Russia, both Russian jurisdiction and extrajudicial means are (according to Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misha Verbitsky
Misha Verbitsky (russian: link=no, Ми́ша Верби́цкий, born June 20, 1969 in Moscow) is a Russian mathematician. He works at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. He is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher. Scientific activities Verbitsky graduated from a Math class at the Moscow State School 57 in 1986, and has been active in mathematics since then. His principal area of interest in mathematics is differential geometry, especially geometry of hyperkähler manifolds and locally conformally Kähler manifolds. He proved an analogue of the global Torelli theorem for hyperkähler manifolds and the mirror conjecture in hyperkähler case. He also contributed to the theory of Hodge structures. His PhD thesis, titled ''Cohomology of compact Hyperkaehler Manifolds'', was defended in 1995 at Harvard University under the supervision of David Kazhdan. He has hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Kashin
Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin (russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Ка́шин; born 17 June 1980) is a Russian journalist and writer known for his political articles. Early life Oleg Vladimirovich Kashin was born 17 June 1980 in Kaliningrad. In March 2003, he graduated from the Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy in Kaliningrad with a degree a maritime navigation. Kashin sailed twice to sea on a sailing ship '' Kruzenshtern'', being a deck hand and a navigator intern. Participant in international sailing regatta. Career While studying at the Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy, Kashin wrote for '' Komsomolskaya Pravda'' in Kaliningrad where he expressed rather sharp views. He continued to work for that newspaper up to 2003, specializing on exclusive interviews and special reports,Interview with Oleg Kashin , for Sreda.Org (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Lebedev-Frontov
Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (russian: Александр Лебедев-Фронтов; 26 August 1960 – 8 January 2022) was a Russian painter, collagist, and musician. Life and career Lebedev-Frontov was born on 26 August 1960 in Leningrad, USSR. He was one of the precursors of industrial and noise music in Soviet Russia. In 1987 he began an underground music-project named ''Линия Масс ''(Mass Line). In 1994 he joined National Bolshevik Party and started cooperation with the newspaper Limonka. In 1995 Lebedev-Frontov founded record label ''Ultra'' that focused primarily on industrial music. In 1996 he created Vetrophonia. In 1997 Lebedev-Frontov re-created ''Линия Масс ''. In 1999 Lebedev-Frontov was co-founder of art-gallery GEZ21 (''Галерея экспериментального звука''). He died in Saint Petersburg on 8 January 2022, at the age of 61. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakhar Prilepin
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (russian: link=no, Евге́ний Никола́евич Приле́пин; born 7 July 1975), writing as Zakhar Prilepin (russian: link=no, Захар Прилепин), and sometimes using another pseudonym, Yevgeny Lavlinsky (russian: link=no, Евгений Лавлинский), is a Russian writer and leader of the political party " For Truth" from 1 February 2020. Previously he was a member of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party from 1996 to 2019. Biography Yevgeny Prilepin was born 7 July 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Oblast, in the family of a teacher and a nurse. His family lived there until 1984, when they moved to Dzerzhinsk. He started working at age 16 as a loader in a bread shop. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Nizhny Novgorod State University and the School of Public Policy. He worked as a laborer, a security guard, and served as a squad leader in the Russian police group OMON, and subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Medvedeva (singer)
Nataliya Georgiyevna Medvedeva (russian: Наталия Георгиевна Медведева, 14 July 1958, Leningrad – 3 February 2003, Moscow) was a Russian poet, writer, singer, and frontwoman of the hard rock bands Tribunal Natalii Medvedevoy and NATO. Career At the age of 17, Medvedeva moved to Los Angeles where she found work as a model, posing for ''Playboy'' and for the cover of The Cars' self-titled debut album in 1978, photographed by Elliot Gilbert. She was married to Eduard Limonov, a controversial Russian writer and later leader of the National Bolshevik Party, whom she met in 1982 in Los Angeles. Her LA period is depicted in her novel ''Hotel California'' (1989). In 1982, Medvedeva moved to Paris and became a piano bar singer. She wrote poetry, essays for French magazines, and published two novels in 1985 and 1987. In 1989 she participated in a collective poetry project, ''The Last 16 December 1989'', together with poets Oleg Prokofiev and Anton Koslov Mayr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Linderman
Vladimir Ilyich Linderman (russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ли́ндерман, lv, Vladimirs Lindermans, pseudonym Abel (''А́бель''); born November 3, 1958) is a Latvian and Russian publicist, political dissident of JewishShort biography origin, and a member of Russia's unregistered since 1997. Linderman is a non-citizen of Latvia. Biography In 1991, Linderman worked in the Russian editorial office of the |
Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin ( rus, Александр Гельевич Дугин; born 7 January 1962) is a Russian political philosopher, analyst, and strategist, who has been widely characterized as a fascist. Born into a military intelligence family, Dugin was an anti-communist dissident during the 1980s. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dugin co-founded the National Bolshevik Party with Eduard Limonov, a party which espoused National Bolshevism, which he later left. In 1997, he published '' Foundations of Geopolitics'', in which he outlined his worldview, calling for Russia to rebuild its influence through alliances and conquest, and to challenge the rival Atlanticist "empire" led by the United States. Dugin continued to further develop his ideology of neo-Eurasianism, founding the Eurasia Party in 2002 and writing further books including '' The Fourth Political Theory'' (2009). Dugin also served as an advisor to the Chairman of the State Duma Gennadiy Selezn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Dmitriev (politician)
Andrei Yuryevich Dmitriev (russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Дми́триев; born September 12, 1979, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg)) is a Russian political dissident, publicist, member of National Bolshevik Party since 1996, co-founder of coalition The Other Russia and one of leaders of the eponymous political party The Other Russia. He works as a journalist. Biography Dmitriev was born in Saint Petersburg. He studied in Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Political career Since 1996 Dmitriev has been a member of the National Bolshevik Party. In 2001 he became a member of its Central Committee. In 2008 Dmitriev was one of the organizers of the Dissenters' March. In 2009 Dmitriev was one of the organizers of Strategy-31 in Saint Petersburg. Dmitriev was repeatedly detained during Strategy-31 actions. In 2010 Dmitriev co-founded the political party The Other Russia and became leader of its Saint Petersburg branch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
