17 June 2004 01:31
Court postpones hearings on disbanding National Bolshevik Party
MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - The Moscow Regional Court has postponed to July 20 hearings on a lawsuit from Moscow
region prosecutors on disbanding the National Bolshevik Party. The hearings were postponed after one of the lawyers for
the party failed to turn up in court.
National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov told the press after a court meeting there is no reason to disband the
party.
able to travel to their home villages for free," referring to the
annulment of benefits for pensioners and some other categories of
"We are not going to disband the party. We do not make a secret of our address - 7, Vtoraya Frunzenskaya Ul. All
of Russia knows it. All we want is to reach voters," he said.
"There is no precedent for disbanding a political party. This is obviously a hysterical wish of the prosecutors
to do what they want. We never use violence, we are the ones who are constantly beaten," Limonov said.
As for the latest protest by National Bolsheviks at the exhibition of Faberge eggs in the Kremlin, Limonov said,
"so much money has been spent. Nine eggs have been bought for $110 million, while they are depriving the people of
everything and elderly women will no longer be
citizens.
Prosecutors are demanding that the National Bolshevik Party be disbanded for breaching the law on political parties.
The lawsuit states that the party's conduct in 2000-2001 runs counter to the law on public organizations, which
"outlaws the establishment and activities of public organizations that target changing the constitutional system by
force, destroying the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, and the formation of armed units." [RU
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