So now we know the real reason behind the Federal hounding of the Exile, courtesy of good reporting by the Moscow Times: its associations with dissident leader Eduard Limonov.
In my earlier post, I noted that Limonov was a columnist for the paper and that his radical opposition movement had had scores of its members arrested and detained as political prisoners. The latest probe is the latest chapter in the story.
“Federal officials visited the offices of The eXile on Thursday and asked about the newspaper's relationship with Eduard Limonov, a Kremlin critic who writes a column for the notorious English-language tabloid.”
Read the whole article by Alexander Osipovich here.
And it was good to hear Editor Mark Ames in characteristic fighting spirit:
“Despite his pessimism about The eXile's future, Ames said he will not tone it down or stop publishing Limonov.
“Hell no,” Ames said when asked whether the column would be canceled. “Limonov was one of the inspirations for this paper.”
