In 1991, Linderman worked in the Russian editorial office of the
Atmoda newspaper. In 1998 he was the leader of the Latvian branch of the
National Bolshevik Party (NBP). From 2002, Linderman was a member of the Central Committee of the NBP. In November 2002, he went to
Saratov to take part in the trial of the NBP founder
Eduard Limonov as a defence witness. On September 24, 2003, Linderman was arrested by the
Federal Security Service (FSS) in
Moscow and spent 19 days in
Lefortovo Prison. 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. On October 26, 2008, he attempted to enter
Estonia from
Finland, but was detained at the
Tallinn Passenger Port, where Linderman was informed he is banned from entering the country and sent back to Finland. In 2009, Linderman became the founder and leader of the
Latvian political party
The 13 January Movement. 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. On July 16, 2012, Linderman renamed The 13 January Movement to
For the Native Language! and registered it as a political party. Soon after, he called his supporters to boycott
SEB banka for refusing to open a bank account for the party. In 2013, Linderman became the unofficial leader of a newly founded organization “Let’s Protect Our Children” that along with another organization called "Kin" began collecting signatures to initiate a referendum against "
gay propaganda". On May 8, 2018, Linderman was arrested by the Security Police 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 in a March 31 speech he gave at the "All-Latvian Parents Gathering" organized by the
Latvian Russian Union. but finally released on May 22. ==References==