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MOSCOW, January 15 (RIA Novosti) - The leader...

In a letter posted on the website of the outlawed party, Eduard Limonov said that Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion and the leader of the United Civil Front, and Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Russian PM and the leader of The People's Democratic Union, should form with him "a triarchy of leaders."

"The opposition" said Limonov, needs strong leadership "to raise a single flag to gather warriors beneath it."

The National Bolshevik Party has been branded an extremist organization by the authorities. Group members are known to have thrown mayonnaise and tomatoes at prominent public figures, including Kasyanov, former NATO Secretary Lord George Robertson, and Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov. Activists have also staged protests by breaking into government offices in Moscow.

For such actions, which the radical group dubs "velvet terror," many of its activists have been arrested and sentenced to prison terms. Limonov himself was jailed in 2001 on charges

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