Word: neos
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...members of extremist and neo-Nazi groups, Hitler's birthday has become an occasion for venting their anger. And not just against the Americans. On April 20 last year, Moscow skinheads launched attacks that left a young Chechen killed and more than a dozen badly injured. Why do they do it? "Because [Hitler] gave us the holy idea of National Socialism," says Zakhar...
...years ago skinheads numbered no more than a few dozen in Moscow. Now the Interior Ministry estimates that there are 10,000 skinheads and other neo-Nazis in the country. Independent analysts put the figure at closer to 50,000. No official data on skinhead violence exist, but an estimate by journalists and foreign embassies suggests that skinhead assaults have left more than a dozen foreigners dead and 100 hospitalized in Moscow since May 2000. Similar attacks have taken place in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novgorod. Russian officials dismiss these incidents as simple hooliganism but can't deny that they...
Last year, Springfest did not have a professional headliner and instead featured only student bands. In 2000, neo-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played at Springfest...
...years of the war. He beat to death one Jew who failed to report on time and shot another for stealing a cauliflower. The prosecution said that despite his advanced age - he was 89 at the time of the trial - a life sentence was necessary as a deterrent to neo-Nazis in modern Germany. Malloth had lived most of his life quietly in northern Italy, where he was a salesman for an electrical-goods company...
...well-equipped schools are churning out technically adept film students. So far, they've taken to the training, but still haven't shown much vision. "The Singaporean mind-set," says Khoo, "seems to be that we'll just take that spoon and eat whatever is given to us." Neo has opened the envelope. Now someone just needs to push it a bit farther...