National Republican Army (Russia)

rdf:langString National Republican Army (Russia)

rdf:langString Armed Forces of Ukraine * Freedom of Russia Legion Ilya Ponomarev

rdf:langString August 2022

rdf:langString "Let's take back our country!"

rdf:langString Национальная республиканская армия

rdf:langString Government of Russia * Vladimir Putin

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rdf:langString National Republican Army

rdf:langString The National Republican Army (Russian: Национальная республиканская армия, romanized: Natsional'naya respublikanskaya armiya; NRA) is an alleged underground partisan group of Russians inside Russia working towards the violent overthrow of the Putin government. Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of Russia's Duma who was expelled for anti-Kremlin activities, has identified the group as being behind the assassination of Russian journalist Darya Dugina in August 2022, and "many other partisan actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months." He said he has been "in touch" with representatives of the organization since April 2022. He describes his role as similar to that played by Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin vis-a-vis the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Troubles, and claimed that his role is limited to providing publicity, helping fugitives, and providing technical assistance; he denied providing weapons. Commentators have expressed doubts as to Ponomarev's claims about the group. Media coverage of Dugina's assassination stresses that there is no independent verification of the Russian NRA's existence or its role in the assassination. Nevertheless, the opposition Russian Action Committee blacklisted Ponomarev from its Free Russia Congress on grounds that he had "called for terrorist attacks on Russian territory." The Committee's statement also implied that Dugina was a "civilian" who do not take part in the armed confrontation," and condemned denunciations of Aleksandr Dugin following the attack as "a demonstrative rejection of normal human empathy for the families of the victims." The NRA's purported manifesto states, in part: We, Russian activists, military and politicians, now partisans and fighters of National Republican Army, we outlaw warmongers, robbers and oppressors of the peoples of Russia! We declare President Putin the usurper of authority and the military criminal who has amended the Constitution, unleashed fratricidal war between Slavic peoples and sent the Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death. Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others – the essence of his policy. We believe that people deprived of the right to vote have the right to revolt against tyrants. Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us! — Kyiv Post (trans.), "Statement of the National Republican Army (NRA) of 21 August 2022"