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Russian writer and activist Eduard Limonov has died in Moscow at the age of 77. The causes of death are still unknown.

His political party Other Russia has reported in a statement that the death occurred on Tuesday in the Russian capital, according to AFP.

" Today, March 17, Eduard Limonov has died . All the details will be communicated tomorrow," the party said in a message on its website.

A prolific writer with a haphazard life, a heterodox political activist in Russia, Limonov was known in the West thanks in large part to the biography written by the French journalist and writer Emmanuel Carrère.

"My appearance in literature was rather random," he explained last June in an interview with EL MUNDO. "But it was the only thing that offered me the situation in which I grew up and in which I became aware of myself. Other extreme trades were unattainable to me: one could not become a rock star then. There was also no possibility of dedicating oneself to politics, so I worked in literature, "he explained about the creation of his character in the late Soviet period. "It was what forced me to make my destiny."

Always critical and temperamental, this prominent man of the Russian counterculture was cynical about the present and the future of Europe at that meeting in June. " Europe slapped it long ago ," he said. "It is no longer the same. It is exhausted."

Nor did I see Russia better: "Russia is also a victim of exhaustion. Because we are more Europe than Europe. I always say to my Russian friends:" You are the largest European nation . But we have always been there, to the north, an intellectual suburb. Although it is still the same civilization, there are no major differences. Only in temperament: we are northern people. "

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