Vasily Yakemenko.”
Once again, now as stated by the News.ru.com agency, let us turn to the raid on the NBP headquarters.
“On January 29th at 10 o’clock the NBP headquarters were attacked. There were about 40 attackers. They arrived in a microbus and two cars with tainted windows that have never parked here before (and that disappeared right after the attack) were also present near the house. The attackers were yelling Nazi (!) slogans and were armed with wooden bats – sawed handles from shovels with the price tags still on them. Two nazbols were beaten but the attackers did not manage to get inside thanks to a well-organized defense. The nazbols managed to detain five attackers. The police officers that arrived after some time brought the five to Lomonosov’s police station. A criminal case was opened on the arrested on article 213 (delinquency).
On March 5th an unidentified group of young people sawed open the door to the NBP office on Maria Ulianova Street. The National-Bolsheviks barricaded themselves inside. The attackers were attacking them with gas. According to the NBP an operator from the First Channel was present with the attackers. The police was informed about the attack however the police arrived only two hours after the call was made. The law enforcing bodies arrested nine participants of the attack on the NBP headquarters. They confiscated six baseball bats, two crowbars and gas. As people in the NBP affirm the thugs were thoroughly videotaping a dozen of syringes and twenty vodka bottles they have brought with them.” (Here we feel the RUBOP at work, they teach the Nashists: a typically RUBOP discrediting trick: syringes and vodka. Only heroin bags are missing. I also remember the FSB that cleaned up the Theater Center on Dubrovka in such a way that Barayev who was shot in flight holds an intact cognac bottle in his hand. The special services’ gloomy humor. - E. L.) “Besides, News.ru.com goes on, - they have beaten a nazbol who was on duty in the headquarters with a baseball bat. This is Yakov Gorbunov, a veteran of the Chechnya war. His jaw was broken and an eye was injured. NBP members affirm that members of the Nashi new pro-Kremlin movement created under the aegis of the president’s Administration are behind these incidents. In particular, as News.ru.com was told in the NBP office the attack was made by soccer hooligans from the Moscow Gladiators group hired by the Nashi movement.
We remind that on one of his press conferences Vasily Yakemenko stated that the principal task of the Nashi was the fight with ‘Nazis’ to whom he related the NBP. /…/ On April 10th in Moscow the NBP member Yakov Gorbunov who suffered during the raid on the NBP headquarters on March 5th was attacked. He was attacked by unidentified people on Maria Ulianova Street and was beaten with iron bars on the head. After this the criminals got into a car and drove away. The NBP consider that this was an act of vengeance from the Nashi because the veteran of the Chechen war Yakov Gorbunov testified against them about the recent attack on the nazbols’ headquarters. These testimonies on the participants of the March 5th attack on the NBP headquarters resulted in the opening of criminal cases. Earlier the Kommersant journalist Oleg Kashin and the leader of Moscow’s youth Yabloko Ilya Yashin who was beaten on a Nashi’s event in Solnechnogorsk have affirmed that the Nashi movement has attracted soccer hooligans as its combat detachments. Komsomolskaya Pravda also wrote that one of today’s leaders of the Nashi is Alexey Mitryushin, a former soccer fan.”
From the announcements of the media on March 9th 2005: “The initiator of the Nashi youth movement who directed the constitutive conference of the movement in Podmoskovie on February 26-27th Vasily Yakemenko has refuted the declarations of the NBP that the individuals who raided the headquarters of the National-Bolshevik Party on March 5th “were fulfilling the functions of a group of physical defense”. V. Yakemenko emphasized that the Nashi have nothing in common with radicals and extremists: “This contradicts the principles of our organization – nonviolence and antifascism.” It was the same Yakemenko who, in Kursk on February 10th, was explaining how he would have solved the Maydan problem by brining 5 thousand “colleagues”, soccer fans, with plastic chairs. And they would have chased down 100 thousand people with these chairs.
On 03.15.05. Pravda-Info publishes on its site the results of an investigation by the Atington group called “The Secret Mission of Vasya the Killer”. The subtitle: “We received information about the individuals who made a pogrom in the NBP headquarters”. “The power is trying to create a new ‘black hundred’ from the most destructive elements among youth movements – soccer fans. For the first time ‘the new recruits’ of the power have announced about themselves by a pogrom in the NBP headquarters, where dozens of young people have broken the metal door and harshly beaten two young people who were there as well as the journalist of an Internet publication. Simultaneously with this act of deterrence similar events took place in Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, etc.
These same young people were identified on photos by NBP and SKM members who suffered from their actions in the Moscow subway when they were returning from a CPRF meeting on February 12th.
The Atington group has investigated the issue, using its own sources of information in various structures.
The young man who has called himself ‘Vseslav’ during the deterrence action in the NBP headquarters is well-known in the circles of soccer fans like Vasya the Killer, is a Spartak fan, is a member of the Gladiators fan group. He is well prepared physically, knows man-to-man fighting, and is aggressive; as people say he possesses a knockout punch.
He was approached by the corresponding services in summer 2004 when the Moscow police videotaped a mass fight in a MacDonald’s near the Prospekt Mira subway station between Spartak and Dinamo fans. During the fight a close friend of Vasya the Killer nicknamed Lastik was severely injured at the head with a baseball bat. He became handicapped. The victim’s mother brought charges but the case is not investigated although the police know the person who made the fatal blow – one of well-known Dinamo fans, a certain M. Many people, including bystanders were severely injured that day.
For some time Vasya the Killer was hiding and left his home but later he returned to a legal life. Moreover together with a small group of Spartak fans he openly cooperated with the authorities. This caused a negative reaction among other Spartak fans who are either apolitical or have a negative attitude towards the power. Even his friends from the Gladiators group once emitted a written condemnation of his transfer to the service of the power.
Nonetheless Spartak fans started to be sued for pro-governmental actions recently. For example during a Chelsea match in London a banner in Russian appeared on the tribune, stating a claim to Akhmed Zakayev in vulgar form. There is unconfirmed information about the participation of this group of fans in the pogrom on the Tsaritsin Market.
Presently the described group is used to cover the actions of the Nashi organization. There is no information as to whether their interaction with some special structure was registered.
The unwillingness of Vasya the Killer to hide his face during the action in the NBP headquarters is understandable: the law enforcing bodies have enough material on him even without this videotape that does not add much to the charges that can be brought against him.