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Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, political dissident and politician.
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culture · Russian writer (1943–2020) · writer · dissident · politician · poet · human rights defender · journalist · opinion journalist · short story writer · also Eduard Limonov, Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko, Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov, Limonov
Born 1943 · Died 17 March 2020 · Q295537
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I need him. But he also has his weak points, like a lack of experience. He is also not a team player. That probably comes from his days as a chess champion. I always try to keep myself separate from Kasparov when he is being strongly pro-American. I leave the press conferences. I want to look pure for my people; I don
In modern Russian history there is no such example of this sort of persistence and continued strikes in the same place… The authorities are very, very nervous.
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“I need him. But he also has his weak points, like a lack of experience. He is also not a team player. That probably comes from his days as a chess champion. I always try to keep myself separate from Kasparov when he is being strongly pro-American. I leave the press conferences. I want to look pure for my people; I don”
“In modern Russian history there is no such example of this sort of persistence and continued strikes in the same place… The authorities are very, very nervous.”
“celebrated his 50th birthday in Kninska Krajina ... by firing from a Russian-made heavy gun at Croatian Army headquarters.”
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France 24: Kirill Serebrennikov’s poetic take on Russian punk outsider Eduard Limonov
Yahoo: Ben Whishaw to Play Russian Dissident Eduard Limonov in New Film From Kirill Serebrennikov (EXCLUSIVE)
The Scotsman: Obituary: Eduard Limonov, author and activist, founder of the National Bolshevik Party,repeatedly arrested for protesting
Wall Street Journal: Eduard Limonov, Punk Exponent of Russian Nationalism, Dies at 77
The Boston Globe: Russian author, political activist Eduard Limonov dies at 77
Yahoo: Russian author, political activist Limonov dies at 77
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian Writer, Dissident Eduard Limonov Dies At Age 77 In Moscow
TASS: Russian writer, politician Eduard Limonov dies in Moscow
Died 2020-03-17.
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Limonov supported the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the at the time unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, and encouraged Russians to take part in the Russo-Ukrainian W
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And in 2019, after it got re-established without Limonov as formally part of its leadership
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Limonov said he had been shooting at a target range and that Pawlikowski added an extra camera shot to make it appear he had fired into a populated area
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Limonov married the actress Yekaterina Volkova
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Awarded Andrei Bely Prize (2002).
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A Russian court judged in a hearing that the NBP paper Limonka had disseminated illegal and immoral information: "in essence, E
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Together with figures like Aleksandr Dugin and Yegor Letov, he founded the National Bolshevik Party which started to publish a newspaper called Limonka (the Russian nickname for the lemon-shaped F1 hand grenade; also a p
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Awarded Jean-Freustié Prize (1992).
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Limonov returned to Russia from France, restored his citizenship, and became active in politics
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Where he became active in French literary circles
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But returned to Russia in 1991, where he founded the National Bolshevik Party
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Marrying a fellow poet, Yelena Shchapova, in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in 1973
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Together with his first wife, Anna Moiseevna Rubinstein, (their marriage was not registered officially) he first came to Moscow, earning money sewing trousers (Limonov "dressed" many in the intelligentsia; sculptor Ernst
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Born 1943.
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