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National Bolshevik PartyThe National Bolshevik Party is a political party in Russia adhering to the ideology of National Bolshevism. The party has been led by Eduard Limonov since the foundation in 1992 (then named National Bolshevik Front). Aleksandr Dugin was amongst the earliest members and was instrumental in convincing Limonov to enter the political arena. Presently the party membership is situated around 15 thousand, with regional departments throughout Russia and headquarters in Moscow. The party is known for attracting young people on the margin of society, from delinquents and anarchists to vanguard intellectuals and artists. The party believes in the creation of a grand empire that will include the whole of Europe and Russia to be governed under Russian dominance. The party is vehemently anti-American and sees the creation of this 'Eurasia' as an essential counterbalance to American global domination. However, when Dugin left the NBP to create his own party "Eurasia" the NBP diminished the importance of its geo-political agenda in favor of a national one, concentrating on the defense of Russian minorities in the former USSR republics and the opposition to the political regime in Russia. As for Dugin, Limonov denounced his conservatism and submissiveness to the regime. On the national arena, the party is highly critical of the government of Vladimir Putin and considers state institutions such as the bureaucracy, the police and the courts to be corrupt and autoritarian. In return the Russian authorities often employ repressive methods against the NBP, although they have not officially proclaimed it to be an extremist organization. Since the NBP was refused registration as an official party, its preferred political activity has consisted of nonviolent direct action stunts carried out mostly against prominent political figures in order to protest political and social issues and to gain popularity among the russian population. One of its most recent and famous direct actions consisted of taking over the ministry of health in Moscow on August 2nd 2004 in order to protest the cancellation of social benefits in Russia. The NBP's official organ, the journal "Limonka", has been on the political and cultural vanguard in russian society. It was forced to change its name after the authorities banned it for "promoting extremism and hatred". A series of much smaller groups known as the National Bolshevik Party can be found in Latvia, Moldova, Sweden and Ukraine, although their influence is much smaller than their Russian counterpart. External link
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