Brawl involving NBP pickets

On January 14, 2006, a fight broke out in Moscow near the Aviamotornaya metro station. An authorized picket of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) of 16 people, during which the party newspaper was distributed, was attacked by a group of strong young men, numbering about 20 people, armed with bottles, flares and “Udar” devices. In the ensuing fight, the National Bolsheviks fought back with flag poles and also used “Blow”.

The attackers managed to escape from the arriving police. However, then one of the participants in the fight, Andrei Abramov, was detained. According to NBP press secretary Alexander Averin, Abramov was detained in the hospital, where he went for help because he was diagnosed with an injury characteristic of the Udar device.

After some time, a second fight occurred. The victim, Nazir Magomedov, went to Hospital No. 36 to have his injuries examined. At the exit from the hospital, he was attacked by four people who jumped out of the car. All of them were armed with clubs. A police squad passing by detained the attackers and sent them to the Sokolinaya Gora police station.

One of Magomedov's attackers was identified. It turned out to be Sergei Trifonov, according to the NBP - a participant in the attack on the NBP headquarters on the street. Maria Ulyanova in March 2005, participant in the attack on the city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . Previously, Trifonov was repeatedly seen among the security group at mass events of the Nashi movement.

In turn, “Nashi” categorically refute all accusations against them. “Trifonov is not a member of Nashi,” movement press secretary Ivan Mostovich told the Novye Izvestia newspaper. “ We have nothing to do with this situation. The Nashi movement has no combat units. None of the movement’s commissars could also participate in any attacks, since the main principle of our activities is non-violence. All statements of this kind from the NBP or other extremist youth organizations have no basis."

A criminal case has been initiated into the incident under Art. 213, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“hooliganism”). All detained participants in the attack (according to updated data, 6 people in two police stations) were taken into custody for 48 hours.

However, according to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, representatives of the NBP did not participate in the fight at Aviamotornaya. “There were no “National Bolsheviks” there, as the media reported, there was a small picket of a certain youth organization about the political situation in Russia. After the picket, when the guys began to disperse, two picket participants did not share something among themselves and a fight broke out,” - said the law enforcement agencies.

According to the Collective Action Institute, permission for the picket was not obtained in the name of the NBP, the participants in the event did not have any party paraphernalia, and therefore law enforcement agencies did not make any claims against them.

On January 16 and 17, 2006, confrontations between the injured National Bolsheviks and the detainees took place.

According to the NBP-Info website, the attackers’ detention in the temporary detention center was extended until January 19, 2006.

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