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...SERGEY MAXIMISHIN for TIME PART OF THE GANG: Alexei, at right, in St. Petersburg's Arts Square along with two other Schultz88 members, is awaiting trial on charges of violent assault...
...Since 2001, Alexei says, Schultz88 and other neo-Nazi groups have organized themselves into cells, modeled on al-Qaeda, which come together for an attack and then disperse. Schultz88 is one of an estimated 50 neo-Nazi groups in Russia, 17 of them based in St. Petersburg. "Direct action [by Schultz88] has sent several hundred [people] to hospital," he says, lounging on a bench in St. Petersburg's lovely Arts Square, with two Schultz88 members sitting by his side. Members of the various neo-Nazi groups keep in touch "through the Internet and by other means, both domestically and abroad...
...Nazi Russian National Unity (RNE) party in nearby Novgorod. Police cite Girenko's expert advice as the most likely motive for the hit, but are tight-lipped about possible suspects. No arrests have yet been made. "Pity they didn't knock off that bastard sooner," says Alexei, 22, one of the Schultz88 members being prosecuted in St. Petersburg. "He really tried to put me behind...
...ALEXEI, member of neo-Nazi group Schultz88
...bars." In May, Alexei was released from six months in pretrial detention, but still faces the charges of violent assault. He says he had nothing to do with Girenko's murder. A squat, powerfully built man bristling with barely contained aggression, Alexei is part of a new wave of nationalism that's sweeping through Russian society. As democratic reforms have foundered and living standards plummeted since the collapse of communism in 1991, the country's latent xenophobia has morphed into a more radical, virulent form - and more and more young people like Alexei are coming under the sway...