The Russian National Bolshevist Party (NBP) is an organization of anti-globalists and Russian nationalists founded in 1993 by writer Eduard Limonov. The group has branches across Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union. The NBP opposes capitalism, globalization and the U.S., as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they accuse of attacking democracy in Russia and running a police state. The NBP is also linked to anti-Semitism. The group participates in frequent rallies and demonstrations against Putin, U.S. President George W. Bush and globalization. The NBP also rallies for specific Russian causes, such as visa-free travel to the exclave of Kaliningrad, the re-instatement of direct election of governors, and in support of pensioners opposed to government reforms. <P> <br /><br />The specifics of NBP's political agenda are unclear. The group demands liberty, justice, and revolution, but has not laid out an organized platform. NBP draws much of its imagery from Nazism. The National Bolshevist Party seems to combine elements of fascism, particularly nationalism, with socialism. In that sense, NBP fits into a wider collection of disaffected groups unhappy with the new Russia, as well as a worldwide anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movement. <P>  <br /><br />The NBP aspires to some political legitimacy. It has applied for political party status on  more than one occasion. Eduard Limonov recently joined a multi-party coalition advocating the State Duma candidacy of jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Much of NBP's agitation concerns limits on political freedom in Russia.  <P><br /><br />Over the past decade, the NBP has been associated with a number of minor terrorist incidents. Police believe that group members were behind a bombing outside a synagogue in the Latvian capital of Riga in April 1998. Several members were arrested in 2001 while buying automatic rifles.  <P><br /><br />Most NDP incidents are common vandalism. Group members are known for throwing food products at political leaders, including several OSCE diplomats in Moldova in 2004. In March 2002, a vandal spray-painted a party slogan on the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. In December 2004, 39 group members were arrested after storming the public communications office of the Presidential Administration near the Kremlin and rioting inside the building. This was the second storming of a public office by the NBP in six months. The group's website also features photos of a small-arms attack in Moscow in the summer of 2005.