National Bolshevik Party Declared Extremist

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The Moscow City Court on Thursday declared the unregistered National Bolshevik Party an extremist organization, making it possible for the authorities to arrest anyone who takes part in its activities.

Judge Alla Nazarova also ruled in favor of a request from city prosecutors to ban the organization.

Writer Eduard Limonov, who created the organization in 1993, told reporters outside the courthouse that the ruling was "politically motivated and unjust."

"This precedent will enable the authorities to do the same thing to parties or people who hold alternative views," Limonov said.

Limonov said he expected a wave of criminal investigations to be opened into the activities of people associated with the organization.

Participation in an extremist organization is punishable by a fine of 200,000 rubles ($7,800) or two years in prison. "I will not organize another party because it would be destroyed just as this one was," Limonov said. "But I will not change my beliefs."

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