Word: neos
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...EUROPE RUSSIA: Inspired by al-Qaeda, neo-Nazis harass ethnic minorities...
...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...
...Caucasus "must separate from us completely and never come over here!" Zhirinovsky recently told a reporter from the Armenian daily Novoye Vremya. Some 35% of the electorate supported nationalist parties in the last parliamentary elections, according to the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights. As leader of the neo-Nazi Freedom Party, based in St. Petersburg, Yuri Belyayev would love to be part of the political mainstream. A burly former police officer who positively beams with forced joviality, he supports President Vladimir Putin and believes the President shares some of his goals. "He is for rubbing out the [ethnic minorities...
...ALEXEI, member of neo-Nazi group Schultz88
...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 of neo-Nazi ideology as a way to reassert lost national pride. Girenko's "assassination came as a catastrophe we had long been dreading," says Alexander Vinnikov, a friend and colleague who's also a member of the GPEM. That sense of dread is spreading among members of Russia's ethnic-minority...