Politician and writer Eduard Limonov has died

Politician and writer Eduard Limonov has died in Moscow at the age of 78, State Duma deputy Sergei Shargunov reported on his Facebook page. Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that Limonov struggled with cancer for a long time.

In the 1970s, Eduard Limonov participated in the dissident movement. In 1974 he emigrated to the United States, where in 1976 one of his most famous books, “It’s Me, Eddie,” was published. Limonov spent the 1980s in France, where he received citizenship. In the early 1990s he returned to Russia and began his political career.

In 1993, Limonov founded his National Bolshevik Party (NBP). After its activities were banned, former members of the NBP created the Other Russia party.

A few days before his death, Limonov said that he had entered into an agreement with a publishing house to release a new book called “The Old Man Travels.”

In an interview with Yuri Dudu in 2018, Limonov said: “The day I die will be national mourning.”