Vladimir Ilyich Linderman (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ли́ндерман, Latvian: Vladimirs Lindermans, pseudonym Abel (А́бель); born November 3, 1958) is a Latvian and Russian publicist, political dissident of Jewish[1][2] origin, and a member of Russia's unregistered National Bolshevik Party since 1997.
On September 24, 2003, Linderman was arrested by the Federal Security Service (FSS) in Moscow and spent 19 days in Lefortovo Prison.
[4] On October 6, 2008, Linderman was given a one-year prison sentence suspended for twelve months for the possession of a TNT block with a detonator, but was cleared on the charges of inciting to overthrow the government due to lack of evidence.
[6][7] In 2011, he was the co-founder of an NGO called "Mother Tongue" that initiated the unsuccessful constitutional referendum for making Russian a second state language in Latvia.
[13] On May 8, 2018, Linderman was arrested by the Security Police[14][15] for a suspected incitement of national, ethnic and racial hatred, performing activities aimed against Latvia's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, state power and government structure, as well as organizing mass riots[16] in a March 31 speech he gave at the "All-Latvian Parents Gathering" organized by the Latvian Russian Union.