Moscow (AFP)
Russian writer and political activist Edward Limonov died on Tuesday in Moscow, his "Other Russia" party said in a statement.
"Today, March 17, died in Moscow Edouard Limonov. All the details will be transmitted tomorrow," said the party, founded by Edouard Limonov, in a message on its website.
"Unfortunately, (his death) took place half an hour ago in the hospital," Communist deputy Sergei Chargunov told TASS news agency.
"Until the end, he kept in touch and talked, we could write to him. He was clear-headed and in good health," he added.
Edouard Limonov, 77, is particularly famous for a series of sulphurous novels narrating his exile in the United States, during the time of the USSR, in the 1970s.
In the 1980s, he had lived in Paris and participated in several literary reviews.
Returning to Russia in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Edouard Limononov had founded and actively campaigned for a "national-Bolshevik" opposition party.
He also joined pro-Serb nationalist groups during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, attracting much criticism.
More recently, he supported the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by Moscow in 2014.
In France, he had received a major boost of attention after the 2011 publication of the novel "Limonov" by the writer Emmanuel Carrère.
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