The scene of the crime. On Tuesday, four former members of the Pan-Slavic Nationalist organization Slavic Union were shot dead on the Egorievsk highway in a suburb of Moscow. Banned in 2010, Slavic Union, led by Dmitry Dyomushkin, is still considered the most active “ultranationalist”…
Fusion November 23, 2013 “Mosques? Yeah, I’m thinkin no. But stay black, guys. Just don’t do it in Russia.” -Putin on mosques and blacks Moscow is banning the construction of new mosques, the latest sign of the growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in Russia. The…
BBC October 14, 2013 Hell yes: Protesters chanted “Russia for the Russians” – and the Kremlin responded by arresting over a thousand of the invaders. Police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people in a raid targeting migrants after major riots in Moscow. The…
RT October 13, 2013 Moscow police detained some 380 people during the mass rioting in a southern district of the city. A mixed crowd of nationalists and locals attacked a warehouse run by natives of the Caucasus, blaming a migrant for the fatal stabbing of…
At a ‘New York Times’ party, Russian blogger Alexei Navalny suggested making a toast for the Holocaust. Jerusalem Post August 27, 2013 Russian Nationalist Alexei Navalny [Update: It turns out this story is most likely untrue, unfortunately – Ed] Alexei Navalny, the so-called “defender of…
BBC July 25, 2013 The BBC’s Daniel Sandford reports on the lawyer with a bag who intrigued journalists at Moscow Airport on Wednesday. ugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not been given Russian travel documents, his lawyer has said, contradicting earlier reports. Anatoly Kucherena…
