This 130-page site dedicated to Eduard Limonov contains photos, videos and a lot of new information hard to find outside of Russia (2022)

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EDUARD LIMONOV DIES ON MARCH 17, 2020 IN MOSCOW. HE WAS 77 YEARS OLD.

The emotion is strong in Russia and the reactions countless .

           "A modern Lord Byron"

Eduard Limonov is much more than a politician or even a   great writer.

It is above all a romantic.

A Lord Byron of modern times.

                                                 Yan Shenkman *

* Writer and liberal-minded Russian journalist, politically opposed to Limonov

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COVERAGE OF THE LATEST ISSUE OF ESQUIRE  

                             APRIL 2022

As part of retaliatory measures for the war in Ukraine,  the US Hearst media group shuts down the version of ESQUIRE magazine in Russia.

The last issue will be published in April 2022, with Eduard LIMONOV on the cover.

TITLE :

"The life and place in history of the great Russian writer" 

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2019. In the studio of the sculptor Mikhail Baskakov 

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      ALWAYS WITH HIS BODY GUARDS

LIMONOV WITH SOME OF HIS VOLUNTARY BODY GUARDS.

The obligation for Eduard Limonov to always go out with his volunteer bodyguards (his closest entourage, members of his party) to avoid any "accident".

He had been assaulted and injured several times in Moscow after founding the Bolshevik National Party in 1993.

About ten party members were killed, and the investigations were never successful. 

     Limonov would probably be dead murdered without the protection of his bodyguards.

He was the victim of several attempted bombings after his release from prison in 2003, including a bomb under his car in 2009, which exploded just before the driver's arrival.

He may also have been a victim of poisoning in 2016 (hard to prove).

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       8 BOOKS, WRITTEN IN PRISON! 

Limonov spent two and a half years in prison, from 2001 to 2003, for "arms trafficking" and "coup attempt in Kazakhstan"

He wrote 8 books during this period!

One of them, " THE BOOK OF WATER" , a brilliant autobiography, was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in 2002 in Russia.

"THE BOOK OF WATER" was published in 2014 in its French translation ("LE LIVRE DE L'EAU") by Editions Bartillat.

                             IMPORTANT :

See all books published by Limonov in Russia from 2000 to 2020 (with a lot of information difficult to find outside of Russia): 

https://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/222318808

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                  HIS LAST FIANCEE

Cover photo of Rolling Stone n ° 100 -Russia.

EDUARD LIMONOV poses with his last fiancée, FIFI (to whom he has dedicated a book of poems) and 2 of his volunteer bodyguards.

Cover photo of Rolling Stone n ° 100 -Russia.

    See the video of the pose session:

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The influence of Edward Limonov on young Russian writers:

Many young Russian writers recognize Limonov as their master.

Writers considered to be the most talented of their generation.

See the book of Monique Slodzian Professor at INALCO (Langues'O)

Les enragés de la jeune littérature russe 

         (Enraged young Russian literature)

Editions de La Difference - PARIS - 2014

Monique Slodzian writes about Edward Limonov's influence with these young writers (Prilepin, Shargunov, Elizarov, Sentshin, Sadulayev, Rubanov, Samsonov ...) :

 "Their d'Artagnan, who traces his path alone, is Eduard Limonov . 

 Ironically, it is this same Limonov , whom Solzhenitsyn once treated as "pornographic insect", which today enjoys a moral prestige comparable to his own.

And yet, there is a Limonov "made in France" that coincides neither with the writer and the poet nor with the political leader who will have deeply marked a generation of Russian writers, but who was ostracized in France for his radical anticonformism.

Let's forget a bit about the romantic and Mephistophelic character painted by Emmanuel Carrère to consider the world-wide writer to whom we have so many reasons to be interested:  

- as a Francophile claiming Celine and Genet, but also Sade;  

- as a branch of the American underground culture of the 70s-80s;  

- as a political poet, a link with the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s, his creative energy raising him to the height of "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste" of Mayakovsky;  

- as leader of a new generation of Russian writers who, in the chaos of the present, see him as a model, both for his work and for his life;  

- as a lucid and implacable critic of the democratic imposture, represented today by the ultraliberal camp in Russia. "

                                                            Monique Slodzian

" Les enragés de la jeune littérature russe "

The whole chapter dedicated to Limonov to read here: (in French) 

http://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/371489334

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      MANIFESTATION OF THE LEFT OPPOSITION

LIMONOV AT THE HEAD OF THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LEFT OPPOSITION, MAY 1, 2013 IN MOSCOW. Behind right, the writer Roman Sentchine.

        HE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS 

      Where we recognize in a few sentences the claw of a great writer.

"I am aware of this: writing poetry is a quasi-medieval activity, a sort of eccentricity in the 21st century, but I remain faithful to it as a vice."                    

                                                Eduard Limonov - 2015  

                       Preface to the collection of poems Cinderella pregnant

"The United States is like a serial killer prowling around the planet, looking for his next victim." 

                                                         Eduard Limonov - 2013

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           PROVOCATIVE INTERVIEW

                         AUGUST 28, 2018

Limonov agreed to answer the liberal provocative-interviewer, Yury Dud .

Style questions:

- Are you a Nazi and a fascist?

- Have you sucked a black tramp in New York?

Many reactions in the Russian press, after this interview ( a revealing article ). 

A reaction found among 34,000 Youtube comments (summarizing with humor the general mood) :  

Yury Dud interviews Leo Tolstoy.

Questions:

- Have you ever slept with one of your maids? With a farmer?

- How much did you get WAR AND PEACE? In dollars, what does it do?

- How many times a day do you masturbate?

- I see you're sniffing, Leo ... When did you snort coke for the last time?

- You seem to ignore that the beard is out of fashion for a year and a half, my dear Leo ...

- And now an advertising break.

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                  "ET SES DÉMONS" 

                                                             (And his demons)    

                           2018

         THE NEW NOVEL OF LIMONOV 

 "ET SES DÉMONS" - Editions Bartillat - PARIS 2018

On March 15, 2016, Limonov underwent brain surgery: the extraction of a huge hematoma that mysteriously appeared between the two hemispheres of the brain.

Limonov evokes the hypothesis of poisoning, but acknowledges that he has no proof.

" I was practically in the other world, " he said on March 18, 2016.

Limonov tells this period of his life in his latest novel "And his demons" ( whose French translation will be released on 23 August 2018 by Editions Bartillat).

Limonov also takes the opportunity to discuss his current fiancée, the beautiful and sulphurous Fifi, much younger than him.

He also talks about the action of his party in the Donbass at war.

In this total novel, Limonov returns to the incredible epic lived from 1999 to 2001, in the Altai mountains on the border of Kazakhstan: arrested with his militants by a battalion of the FSB, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for "arms trafficking" and "coup attempt in Kazakhstan".

See this very complete page dedicated to the novel "ET SES DÉMONS", with extracts, photos and videos (in French):

http://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/414521110

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A month and a half after his brain surgery, Limonov was already on the front line in the field on May 1, 2016.

It was noted in his traditional speech of May 1, after the parade of the left opposition in Moscow. 

               VIDEO SPEECH MAY 1, 2016 

The book of Limonov "Дед" (The old man) published in Russia at the end of 2014, was released in France in September 2015 at Editions Bartillat. 

Limonov tells the story during the 2011-2013 period, including the major anti-Putin demonstrations, following the rigged legislative elections of December 2011.

He does not spare himself: "Дед", "the Old Man" is him, as he has been affectionately nicknamed by his bodyguards.

He also paints jubilant, cruel and very literary portraits of Liberal opposition leaders, whom he accuses of betraying the movement. 

  "This is the most immediate Russian history that lives and thrives in this book." 

                                AWESOME VIDEO: 

Limonov dedicating his book "Дед" (The old man) and speaking in front of 500 people (!!!) in a St. Petersburg bookstore.

The full transcript of this "Rossiya 1's" TV news (we understand everything with Google Trad):

https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3250203 

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                  FACING THE PRESS  

On 4 March 2017 , Eduard Limonov was questioned by six journalists in the program "Press Conference" on the news channel Rossiya 24.

Video of the first part of the show:

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EDUARD LIMONOV IN ITALY IN MAY 2018  

Eduard Limonov left Russia in May 2018, for the first time in 23 years.  

He toured several Italian cities and was the guest star of the Turin Book Fair .

The opportunity to present an autobiographical novel, published in Italian under the title ZONA INDUSTRIALE .

The translation of his book " В Сырах " published in Russia in 2012.

The Italian press dedicated long articles to Limonov, even before his arrival in Italy. 

The daily LA REPUBBLICA (May 4, 2018) publishes an interview with Eduard Limonov .

Long article very interesting also on Eduard Limonov in the other big Italian daily, IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA (in its 

supplement of Sunday, the Lettura of May 6, 2018). 

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The Italian news agency ANSA interviewed Eduard Limonov, who states (in a dispatch of 7 May 2018) about Emmanuel Carrère's book, LIMONOV:

"It's his work. It does not like me or not.

Carrère saw me like that, I do not see myself as he describes me, but it does not matter because he told me rendered service.

He introduced me to the general public, who knows me badly outside of Russia.

His novel has been translated into 35 languages, with exceptional and unexpected success for him as well as for me ".

First act of Limonov on his arrival in Italy: to go to the memorial to Pier Paolo Pasolini in Ostia.  

Limonov and his publisher Sandro Teti at the scene of the assassination of filmmaker Pier Paolo PASOLINI

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   LIMONOV SEEN BY ZAKHAR PRILEPIN

ZAKHAR PRILEPIN

ZAKHAR PRILEPIN is the most influential young writer in Russia.

This is what he says in an interview with French daily newspaper "Libération":

"The French do not understand Eduard Limonov, there is a misunderstanding.

Two years before her assassination, journalist Anna Politkovskaya said of Limonov that he was one of the most straightforward and democratic men in the country.

He is not a nationalist. He is a prophet of freedom.

He never shed a drop of blood. His actions are non-violent.

300 members of the National Bolshevik Party went to prison without doing anything wrong. "

ZAKHAR PRILEPIN

ZAKHAR PRILEPIN  thus describes Eduard Limonov in LE MAGAZINE LITTÉRAIRE:

"I remember a round table in Moscow, to which almost all the authors of my generation who were notorious had been invited, asked the participants which of the contemporary writers who had immediately preceded us had we most influence.

We had all answered with one voice : Limonov .

Eduard Limonov is an infinitely more striking figure for today's Russian literature (and more widely for society as a whole) than Solzhenitsyn, for example, or Axionov.

Figure much more important than other contemporaries who have some time eclipsed Limonov : I want to talk about Brodsky (1987 Nobel Prize for Literature) or Dovlatov.

If we use the expressive vocabulary of Limonov , we can say that today, "he has had them all". It's in his way: he yearned for that, and he achieved his goal.

In Limonov, a lot of things have come together - things that we have missed so much lately.

It is extremely modern. His thinking is fast and unforgiving. Limonovis brave. It is in the tradition of the great Russian literary school. He does not just write beautiful texts, he also builds his destiny.

That is to say, we see in him a man as big as the writer.

Many have the impression that Limonov has instilled in us narcissism, that he has boundless admiration for him. Crap!

From the beginning, he taught us not to spare ourselves. To collide with the world. To waste our strength. And then, only, to admire us.

We have not yet measured the full extent of his personality: men are too often hollow, timid and envious. To quietly recognize the existence of a great man beside himself is also a gift. Few possess it.But we will have to recognize it.

I may not agree with Limonov , I may not agree with him several times a day. All this does not matter, they are aesthetic differences.

Not once has Limonov been dogmatic, convinced once and for all of the truth - his - absolute.

It is he, on the contrary, who has honestly won the right to say to himself not only patriotic but also democratic, in this country where the ideals of democracy are often professed by people who have a totalitarian way of thinking.

Limonov can afford a certain amount of emphasis: he can afford so much that one would not forgive anyone else!

Because Limonov is a man belonging to the great story.

Yes, things are so made that he had to live at a time in the history of Russia full of turmoil and mediocrity.

But I do not hesitate to say that its mere presence, in our time, gives the last decades another resonance, another weight. "

Zakhar Prilepin 

Page with a lot of information about Zakhar Prilepin (updated in 2022):

http://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/371489332

(With the release in France, in October 2017, of Zakhar Prilepin's book, L'ARCHIPEL DES SOLOVKI , considered by some as the best Russian novel of the beginning of the 21st century.

And also the book-reportage of Prilepin, CEUX DU DONBASS , published in February 2018)

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Eduard Limonov is not only a politician and a leading writer.

He is also an indefatigable columnist, whose interventions often provoke sharp controversy in Russia.

Today, his chronicles are regularly published in IZVESTIA (until his ousting in February 2016), and on the site FREE PRESS .

They are easy to understand with GOOGLE TRAD, because the journalistic style of Limonov is rigorously simple.

(Very interesting too, the many reactions raised)

See here his columns in FREE PRESS:

http://svpressa.ru/authors/eduard-limonov/

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2015 - Limonov as seen by Pavel Gavrichenkov

"Dignity and decency of a radical charismatic leader" 

In Russia, Edward Limonov's political opponents do not underestimate him.

The liberal Igor Kaliapine, physicist and founder of the Russian NGO "Committee against Torture", in an interview given to Galia Ackerman, for the magazine POLITICS INTERNATIONAL:

"If leaders of radical movements have a dignified behavior, they can lead a lot of young people behind them.

Limonov , for example, has preached crazy ideas; but as a leader, as a human being, he has always behaved with dignity and decency.Nobody can accuse him of treachery or conformity.

But for young people, it is precisely these qualities that count. Not just the values ​​and ideas that these leaders preach, but their behavior in the test. It is therefore quite possible that the young people will get together, one fine morning, behind a radical charismatic leader ...

That's what the current government policy is all about! "

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We should also note this remark of a Russian journalist:

"Limonov's life could fill five biographies of writers and politicians. 
And only one of these lives, already, would be legendary "

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VIDEOS ON EDUARD LIMONOV IN RUSSIAN

  HUGE SELECTION, HERE:

https://vk.com/videos-8091320  

A video chosen a bit randomly, among more than a thousand:

the actress Ekaterina Volkova , ex-wife of Limonov (and mother of her two children) recites by heart a poem of Limonov.

It was during an interview with Zakhar Prilepin  , in the show "The tea with Zakhar", in August 2016:

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                       LIMON'OFF

                    TRIBUTE DISC TO LIMONOV

LIMON'OFF - DOUBLE CD TRIBUTE TO LIMONOV.

A tribute album to Limonov, a double CD, was released in 2012.

Thirty Russian singers and rock bands have put his poems to music.

LIMON'OFF - DOUBLE CD TRIBUTE TO LIMONOV.

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The "LIMONOV"   of  Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère and Limonov. Phalanstère Bookstore - December 2012 - Moscow.

Emmanuel Carrère's LIMONOV , published in September 2011, sold 600,000 copies in France (400,000 in large format and 200,000 in pocket) with exceptional critical acclaim (Prix Renaudot, Prix des Prix littéraires, Best Book of the Year). year 2011, etc ...)

More importantly, the book had a considerable impact in all the countries where it was translated.  

In Italy , he was crowned best book of the year 2012 (very rare for a translation), and broke sales records.

LIMONOV has also had great influence in Spain , Argentina and Chile (in fact, throughout Latin America).

In Brazil, 4 years after the publication of the book in the original edition, a book club has made LIMONOV its "Book of the Month" , in June 2017. Presented in a beautiful box with in addition to the book (well reissued), a photo album by Eduard Limonov, and a critical booklet. 

In the United States , LIMONOV was released in October 2014.

Without reaching the draws known elsewhere in the world, Emmanuel Carrère was entitled to many very laudatory articles , for the first time on such a level, in the big American press.

Foreign critics present Emmanuel Carrère as the greatest living French writer (after Michel Houellebecq), and speak to describe him as "the author of LIMONOV " .

The book is translated into about thirty languages: reports and debates in newspapers and foreign blogs are innumerable.

It is one of the most commented French books of the last 10 years in the world - with Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" and Michel Houellebecq's "Submission" .

In September 2015, the Mexican magazine "La Tempestad" included LIMONOV among the 21 best novels of the 21st century (all countries combined):

http://www.unabrecha.com.ar/21-novelas-del-siglo-xxi/

In Italy, Spain and Latin America in particular, several previous books of Emmanuel Carrère, released in their time in indifference, were reissued following the success of LIMONOV .

In the wake, Carrère has enjoyed extensive media coverage in the publication in Italian and Spanish of his next book, The Kingdom .

While he was little known in Latin America before the translation into Spanish of his LIMONOV , Emmanuel Carrère received on September 4, 2017, the FIL Prize of Guadalajara , Mexico.

This is the most prestigious Literary Prize in Latin America (carefully scrutinized by the Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature).

It is also the best endowed ($ 150,000).

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We see it: everywhere the critics are dithyrambic, and yet the real Eduard Limonov resembles only in part the portrait drawn up by Emmanuel CArrère.

In fact, it goes far beyond ... as a writer, poet, publicist, one-of-a-kind politician, mastermind of a radical generation in Russia, braveguerrilla , legendary adventurer, blogger and frenetic columnist, compulsive lover, etc ... etc ...

2007 - Emmanuel Carrère in one of Eduard Limonov's flats.

Emmanuel Carrère declares that he wanted to make a non-fiction novel, and certainly not a traditional biography.

      Answer that he developed in his innumerable interviews with the foreign press, at the time of the translation of the book.  

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                    BIASED ANALYSIS

1) In Russia , impartial observers say that Limonov is obviously not a fascist, but a Nietzschean .

This is how Eduard Limonov defines himself politically, today:

" I am a socialist without being a Marxist.

My ideal regime is rather an application of the anarchism of Bakunin and Proudhon, in fact all the pre-Marxist socialist thinkers . "

Interview in Causeur - Oct 2013

In his book "My Political Biography" , Eduard Limonov writes:

" I represented probably the red half of the national-Bolshevik party, and Alexander Dugin, the black half ".

2) In Russia, some observers believe that Emmanuel Carrère understates the literary genius of Limonov and his political and intellectual influence.

Activist of the National Bolshevik Party, with a book by Edward Limonov, "The Other Russia".

Eduard Limonov had a great impact, starting in 1994, among the radical intellectual youth.

His books, his newspaper LIMONKA, and the agit-prop led by the National Bolshevik Party have marked several generations of young rebels.

Innumerable young writers, creators and artists of all kinds today claim to be Eduard Limonov in Russia.

In an interview with NEW YORK TIMES on October 29, 2014, Emmanuel Carrère is clear:

"I made no fact-checking, writing LIMONOV.

If I am wrong, I don’t care.

I know, it’s not very American."  

 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/books/emmanuel-carrres-new-book-profiles-edward-limonov.html

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      THE OPINION OF A SPANISH EDITOR 

"WITH FINGERTIPS ..." Emmanuel Carrère seen by the Spanish cartoonist Lowon

The Spanish publisher of Edward Limonov's books is surprised that the critics accept the insinuations of Emmanuel Carrère ("Limonov is a fascist") without any reservations, without even knowing the work of Limonov, nor his authentic biography.

And he adds:

" Carrère's book, except for a few short chapters, is only a vulgar and trivial summary of Limonov's numerous works.

Emmanuel Carrère took advantage of  Éduard Limonov's brilliant,incisive, cutting, provocative and aggressive prose :

He sprayed it, sifted it, defused it, to serve us a porridge without the radiant flavor of the original ingredients, but it is true, perfectly adapted to the asepticized demand, and less and less demanding of the Western readers.

It should be asked why the copy, the imitation, managed to impose on the original. "

http://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/222318806

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Eduard Limonov - January 29, 2015 - Photo Paolo F Valentino - Corriere della Sera --------- See the article, translated, to the page "Ukraine = Invention" -------- http: / /www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/412678058

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THE " LIMONOV" OF CARRÈRE SEEN BY PRILEPIN 

Zakhar Prilepin's opinion on Emmanuel Carrère's LIMONOV .

Prilepin is one of the characters of the book : 

" Emmanuel Carrère wrote a book very alert and, overall, captivating.

The most interesting piece: the voice of Carrère himself, his personal observations beyond Limonov.

For this, the introduction - the first 30 pages, are the strongest.

Further on, we go on to the exposition, sometimes almost word for word, of the books of Limonov himself, at the beginning in detail, then more and more hasty.

What any reader of Eduard Limonov will obviously find a little heavy. "

                                                                      Zakhar Prilepin 

The INTEGRAL of the text of Zakhar Prilepin (by far, the finest analysis of the book of Carrère) :

http://www.tout-sur-limonov.fr/222318798

Announcement of an intervention by Eduard Limonov at the St. Petersburg Palace of Culture on February 20, 2015. - - - - - Photo taken on December 30, 2014 in St. Petersburg.

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               A thought of Limonov:

" Europe is lying when it says that it defends the Good, the Democracy, the Rights of the Men.

Europe, in fact, is killing the dissenting countries, the different countries, the different man.

Europe pursues Good with all means of Evil "

                               Eduard Limonov - Interview LE POINT 2011

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   IMPACT IN THE HISPANIC WORLD

( not to mention Italy, where Carrère became a star after the release of her " Limonov ")

Soledad Quereilhac

The literary critic and professor of the University of Buenos Aires, Soledad Quereilhac even places the LIMONOV Carrère, among his "10 indispensable" of the world literature of all time, alongside works by Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges!

SEE HERE   :

 https://eternacadencia.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/los-imprescindibles-de-soledad-quereilhac/

Soledad Quereilhac, also known in Argentina for being the wife of the one who was, until the end of 2015, the very mediatic  Ministry of Finance, the "young wolf" Axel Kicillof.

Axel Kicillof, who also considers LIMONOV as one of his favorite books:

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1711632-contado 

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Bookmark made in Brazil by a book club that made LIMONOV its "Book of the Month" in June 2017.

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Limonov does not just talk politics in public. He sometimes agrees to recite his poems. Here in Kaluga, in May 2015.

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