Would-be Russian politician, Eduard Limonov, may have been jailed for terrorism in 1994, although this almost certainly had nothing to do with his activities in 1992 (Exiled Russian Dissident Makes Bid For Presidency - Oct. 18). That year the BBC filmed him on a hill above Sarajevo shooting at defenceless civilians below. He was there to support his friend Radovan Karadzic, who was pleased to offer an interview.
I laughed when I read his description of himself as someone who, in the West, "would occupy a place between Greenpeace and Amnesty International." Mr. Limonov is a familiar type: an old-fashioned nationalist/anarchist/Trotksyist (and bad poet) who travels the world looking for high-profile adventure and a television camera to pose for.