Viktor Anpilov
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Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov (russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Анпи́лов; 2 October 1945, in Belaya Glina,
Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of ...
– 15 January 2018, in
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city Soviet. As a candidate, he was reported to have maintained links with the ultranationalist
Pamyat The Pamyat Society (russian: Общество «Память», russian: Obshchestvo «Pamyat», ; English language, English translation: "''Memory''" Society), officially National Patriotic Front "Memory" (NPF "Memory"; russian: Национал ...
movement. After the dissolution of the USSR, Anpilov became the leader of the movement Labour Russia. During the
1993 Russian constitutional crisis The 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, also known as the 1993 October Coup, Black October, the Shooting of the White House or Ukaz 1400, was a political stand-off and a constitutional crisis between the Russian president Boris Yeltsin and t ...
, he was one of the leaders of the anti-
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
uprising. In 1999, his movement joined the coalition Stalin Bloc – For the USSR. In 2007 he took part in the Dissenters March organized to protest against president
Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...
policies. Anpilov was a well-known figure and he has a certain popularity; sometimes he was also invited as a guest on TV shows. In the 2012 presidential election, he supported
Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, ''né'' Eidelshtein (russian: link=false, Эйдельштейн) (25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) fr ...
's candidacy.


Personal

Anpilov was fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and had worked in Latin America.


Death

Viktor Anpilov died in 2018. He had been in coma for the last three days of his life after a stroke.


Further reading

* Ostrovsky, Alexander (2014)
Расстрел «Белого дома». Чёрный октябрь 1993 (The shooting of the "White House". Black October 1993)
— М.: «Книжный мир», 2014. — 640 с. ISBN 978-5-8041-0637-0


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Labour Russia siteБиография Виктора Ивановича Анпилова
1945 births 2018 deaths People from Krasnodar Krai Soviet journalists Russian politicians Russian communists Anti-revisionists Antisemitism in Russia Neo-Stalinists Defenders of the White House (1993) Russian dissidents Russian nationalists Inmates of Lefortovo Prison Moscow State University alumni Communist Party of the Soviet Union members {{Russia-politician-stub