Eduard Limonov

Eduard Limonov Russian ?????? ??????? real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko Russian ?????? ???????????? ??????? 22 February 1943 17 March 2020 was a Russian writer poet publicist and political dissident He emigrated from the USSR in 1974 and earned the fame of a scandalous writer abroad in particular due to obscene language and pornographic scenes in his first novel Its Me Eddie In 1991 he returned to Russia and soon founded the controversial National Bolshevik Party that was banned in the country in 2007 it was superseded by The Other Russia party A fierce opponent of neoliberal policies in Russia he was arrested in 2001 and convicted for illegal possession of weapons In the 2000s he was one of the leaders of The Other Russia coalition of opposition forces However he supported Putins foreign policy following the 2014 proRussian unrest in Ukraine Wiki