This is a translation of the NRA manifesto for a page I’ll be starting on my research into this obscure group and Ilya Ponomarev (see below*)

A NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ARMY WAS ESTABLISHED IN RUSSIA, WHICH CARRIED OUT AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON DUGIN

Aug 21, 2022 Today we woke up in a new time.

Last night, a landmark event took place near Moscow. Russian partisans blew up the car of Novorossiya ideologist, leader of Russian fascists Alexander Dugin.

This attack opens a new page of Russian resistance to Putinism. New – but not the last.

This attack opens a new page of Russian resistance to Putinism. New – but not the last.

Daria Dugina-Platonova, Alexander’s thirty-year-old daughter, was killed in the attack.

She was his faithful companion, his hands in the ongoing war. Daria called for the destruction of Ukrainians, was a voice calling for violence and murder in the occupied territory. In particular, she justified the terrorist act in Elenovka, when 50 Azov fighters who voluntarily surrendered were blown up in violation of the Geneva Convention.

Retribution took place yesterday. The Lord preserved Dugin himself, but prepared for him a much more terrible punishment.

Today is the time to say who implemented it.

This action, like many other direct-action guerrilla actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months, was implemented by the National Republican Army. We have established a connection with its fighters with the help of our resource Rospartizan, which illuminates the growing wave of resistance in Russia.

NRA fighters authorized me [Ilya Ponomarev] to read out their Manifesto today.

Translated from YouTube

STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ARMY (NRA) OF 21.08.2022

We, Russian activists, military and politicians, now partisans and fighters of the National Republican Army, outlaw the arsonists of war, robbers and oppressors of the peoples of Russia!

Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others are the essence of his policy.

We declare President Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who corrected the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death.

We believe that people deprived of the right to vote have the right to rebel against tyrants.

Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us!

Our goal is to stop the destruction of Russia and its neighbors, to stop the activities of a bunch of Kremlin dealers who have sucked on the wealth of our people and commit crimes today inside the country and abroad.

We declare officials of the Government of the Russian Federation and regional administrations accomplices to the usurper – those who do not resign will be destroyed by us.

We declare businessmen who earn their money on corruption and relations with officials – traitors to the Motherland and accomplices of the usurper. The property of those who will not repent or publicly oppose this power and its war, and they will be destroyed by us.

We declare law enforcement officers accomplices of the usurper. Those who do not lay down their arms and take off their shoulder straps will be destroyed by us.

We declare military cargo and cargo of those who earn from war and help it financially – legitimate goals that will be destroyed by us.

We remember the explosions of houses in Russia that brought Putin to power. We know that the regime will not stop facing any of the most monstrous crime. And we declare: we carry out actions only against the persons of this government. We will not attack civilian objects and civilians, and if Putin’s security forces make such provocations and attribute sacrifices to us – do not believe them!

We call on Russian army soldiers to stop shooting our brothers from other countries – Georgia, Syria and others.

We call on all Russians to join our ranks and raise the white-blue-white flag of the new Russia instead of the tricolor disgraced by Putin’s power.

We call on those who are ready to fight, follow our example and overthrow this inhuman, hypocritical and anti-popular regime!

We consider it unacceptable that Russians have begun to be stunning around the world because of war crimes committed by those who have neither nationality nor fatherland, and who love only money and power.

The world is not an enemy of Russia, and Russia is not an enemy of humanity, and we will prove it by deeds.

We will give protection to everyone who follows our call.

Everyone who executes our program until the change of regime is exempt from the responsibility provided for by the usurper’s laws.

After our victory, we will immediately release all those illegally convicted by Putin’s authorities.

We will give freedom to all peoples inhabiting Russia and build a new society – a society without oligarchs, without corruption, without the arbitrariness of officials, without humiliating poverty.

A society in which everyone will be rewarded for his work. A society without wars and violence.

A society in which power will belong to the people, where citizens will choose their own leaders, and organize the lives of their cities and villages themselves.

A society in which rulers will not be able to sacrifice human lives for their own greatness, but will think about education, medicine and scientific progress.

A society in which everyone will be proud that he was born on the territory of Russia and will want to live in it!

Long live Free Russia!

Wherever you are, fight like us, fight with us, fight better than us!

Let’s cleanse our Motherland of filth! Victory will be ours!

Keep in touch with us through the telegram channel Rospartizan.

Translated from Telegram.

*Ironic that they chose Ilya Ponomarev, a wealthy businessman who’s been accused of embezzlement, to represent them. Is he the new Alexei Navalny for the West?!

47-year-old Ilya Ponomarev is a wealthy businessman, whose political identity is winding, between communism, pan-slavism and social democracy, likely ambitious and opportunist. Then member of the State Duma, he opposed in 2014 the annexation of Crimea. He is living in exile between California and Kiev. Ukrainian nationalist, fan of historical Nazi leader Stepan Bandera, former president Petro Poroshenko has granted him the Ukrainian nationality in 2019. About 24 hours after the assassination of Daria Platonova, Ponomarev publishes a statement on his YouTube channel, February Morning, takes credit for the attack, on behalf of a so-called [Russian] national republican army (NRA). He states that Daria was indeed the target

Nicolas Cinquini