Posted on 04/06/2020 8:45:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration reportedly plans to designate the far-right Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization, the first time the designation has been applied to a white supremacist group.
The designation will allow the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to seize assets belonging to the organization in the U.S. and prohibit Americans from financial dealings with the group.
Officials said the U.S. will also designate three of the organization’s leaders, Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariev and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov, as terrorists, making them subject to similar sanctions at a personal level.
The group, an ultranationalist Russian organization, has aided in the recruitment of soldiers to back up pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, and in 2017, Swedish prosecutors said three men accused of plotting bomb attacks against asylum seekers were trained by members of the organization in St. Petersburg.
“These designations are unprecedented,” Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, told The New York Times. “This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat. We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.”
The move amid pressure on the administration to apply the designation to white supremacist groups.
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Russian Imperial Movement?
It has, like, what? 3 members here?
Next, hopefully, Antifa
Still waiting for the Antifa terrorist designation.
And Antifa is a genuine threat to America. Not just some lonely nuts wearing camo.
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—”
Russian Imperial Movement?
It has, like, what? 3 members here?
Agree. I clicked and expected a story about the Aryan Brotherhood. This is clearly another case of Deep State Resistance types with way too much time on their hands.
BLM too
I have no problem with this.
What I have a problem with is the left conflating this white supremacists group with any group they disagree with and attempting to tar anyone to the right of Stalin.
Wasn’t Trump going to name the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist? What happened to that?
Hell,I was expecting him to name Antifa as a terrorist group.This Russian group I never even heard of.While Antifa is a well known terror group which destroys property and commits violent assaults against individuals who are peacefully exercising their first amendment right to free speech.
Time to wake up to Antifa.
OH, antifa making the big time? Oh, sorry, different idiots.
Let me know when they declare the democrat party a terrorist organization.
Labeling some foreign Russian mafia group as White Supremacists?
What a stretch.
Oh well. ALL white people are racists and bigots, right?
“It has, like, what? 3 members here?”
Two of which are FBI.
It's not a stretch. It's the first step.
...Russian Imperial Movement... the U.S. will also designate three of the organization’s leaders, Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariev and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov, as terrorists, making them subject to similar sanctions at a personal level.
Bump
Maybe they can do the same for groups blocking the polling places during a election such as the Black Panthers. Barr is full of “look a squirrel” while all the treason players such as Comey, Shitff, Lerner, Yates, Brennan, Clapper etc walk free making book deal$$$.
Russian Imperial Movement? Who will Trump collude with now?
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