MOSCOW, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - Activists from the extremist National Bolshevik Party who burst into the Russian Finance Ministry have been detained, Moscow police said Monday.
"A group of young people, numbering 10 to 15, burst into the Finance Ministry building on Ilyinka Street, where they threw leaflets," a police spokesman said. "Those detained are now being sent to the Kitai-Gorod police station. A court of justice will decide what happens to them next."
The activists were throwing leaflets demanding that bank deposits lost in 1990s be returned to their owners.
Witnesses said the trespassers injured a security guard.
The Finance Ministry has not commented on the incident.
Earlier, a Moscow court handed down a guilty verdict to a group of National Bolshevik Party members, led by the controversial writer Eduard Limonov, charged with attempting to seize power and organize a mass disturbance.
Thirty-nine NBP activists were arrested December 14, 2004 when they broke into the presidential staff's visitors' room to protest President Vladimir Putin's political reforms.
In June 2005, a Moscow court banned the organization, saying it violated the law on political parties by calling itself a "party" without being officially registered.
The Supreme Court's appeals chamber overturned the ruling in August. But the Prosecutor General challenged the decision with the Supreme Court Presidium, and a panel of Supreme Court justices then ordered a retrial.
