However, numerous Russian right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have apparently joined Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Members of the Russian National Unity (RNU), one of the largest official neo-Nazi groups in the Russian Federation, in the public announcement of their entry into the Ukrainian conflict in support of the invading forces. Ukraine War, 2022.
In the Russian Federation Nazi. (fascism) organizations are divided into moderate, radical and forbidden, and there are 53 of them!
Moderate - 23 organizations:
1. Russian National Union - ROS
2. National Democratic Party - NDP
3. The New Force
4. EO Russians
5. Great Russia - VR
6. National Democratic Alliance - NDA
7. National Cathedral - National Assembly
8. Russian Imperial Movement - RID
9. NSR (National Union of Russia)
10. Russian People’s Cathedral - SRN
11. Russian public movement - ROD
12. National Russian Liberation Movement - NROD
13. Party for the Protection of the Russian Constitution “Rus” - PZRK “Rus”
14. National Patriots of Russia - NPR
15. National-Democratic Movement “Russian Civil Union” - NDD RGS
16. The Nation of Freedom - NS
17. Russian National Patriotic Movement
18. Resistance
19. National Socialist Initiative - NCI
20. Congress of Russian Communities
21. Restructuring
22. OD “DAWN” (Public Movement “DAWN”)
23. National Organization of Russian Muslims
Radical - 22 organizations
1. People’s militia named after Minin and Pozharsky - NOMP
2. Other Russia
3. Russian Liberation Front “Memory” - Russian Federation “Memory”.
4. OOPD “Russian National Unity” - “Barkashov Guard”
5. VOPD “Russian National Unity” - VOPD RNE
6. Alexander Barkashov Movement
7. National-State Party of Russia - NDPR
8. People’s National Party - NNP
9. True Russian national unity - IRNE
10. Baltic Avant-garde of Russian Resistance - BARS
11. Russian United National Alliance (RONA)
12. The Guard of Christ
13. National Union - NS
14. Union of Orthodox Khorugvenos - SPH
15. The Union of the Russian People — FRN
16. Northern Brotherhood - SB
17. The Black Hundred
18. Parabellum Movement
19. National Socialist Party of Russia - NSPR
20. Freedom Party - PS
21. Russian Image
22. National trade union offensive line - NSN
Banned - 8 organizations
1. Movement Against Illegal Immigration — DPNI
2. National Socialist Society - NSO
3. National Bolshevik Party - NBP
4. Slavic Union - SS
5. National Revolutionary Action Front (FPRD)
6. Russian National Union - RONS
7. Defense League of Moscow
8. Format 18
Members of the Russian National Unity (RNU), one of the largest official neo-Nazi groups in the Russian Federation, in the public announcement of their entry into the Ukrainian conflict in support of the invading forces. Ukraine War, 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_National_Unity
In 1998, Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov, with the support of higher government officials, prohibited the second RNU regional conference from being held in Moscow.At the peak of its popularity in 1999, RNU was estimated to have 20,000 - 25,000 active members all over Russia by state officials.
The group was banned in Moscow in 1999 and Barkashov lost the control of the group by 2000 after which the group was defunct.
After the ban on the group, members of RNU were often jailed and the organisation was split into a number of other groups. The members of these new groups, namely Alexander Barkashov, Russian Orthodox Army, and others have since have engaged in religious activities and pro-Russian activism in Donbas conflict. They also support the Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressed their readiness to fight against Ukraine.
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d90d/870620f804f298bf834d50ca3f2477a15af6.pdf
The European and Russian Far Right as Political Actors: Comparative Approach
Ivanova Ekaterina, Kinyakin Andrey & Stepanov Sergey
RUDN University, Russia
Received: March 5, 2019
Accepted: April 25, 2019
Online Published: May 30, 2019
URL: https://doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v12n2p86
[Excerpt at page 96]
The situation dramatically changed after 2014. The state began to suppress any display of the nationalism. The first victims became the Russian far right organizations. Russian courts turned into punitive tool sentencing to prison terms the most active public figures of this nationalist segment (the leader of “the Russians” Association Alexander Belov and ex-leader of “the Russian Run” (Russkaia probezhka) in St. Petersburg Maxim Kalinichenko were sentenced for the long terms in custody. Dmitry Dyomushkin (the leader of Slavonic Union (Slavyanskij Soyuz )) was arrested for 15 days for posting a photo image from a comedy movie about Nazi zombies, with a visible swastika on the character’s armband. In 2017 he was sentenced for 2,5-year imprisonment for displaying a poster with the inscription “Russian power for Russia”.In 2018 the victim of the state-sponsored campaign became the nationalist organization “Art preparation” (Artpodgotovka), which members were imprisoned en mass. The leader of this organization populist Vyacheslav Maltsev fled abroad, getting the status of political refugee.
It should be stressed, that the Russian nationalists had never access to the media both on federal and regional levels. They were also refused of having their own newspapers or magazines. The only channel for communication for them was internet. But the internet resources, created and run by the Russian far right, are regularly blocked and closed on the ground of enticing national hatred and extremism. Even for human rights defenders in Russia, who in no way share the views of the far right, admit, that the repression against their opponents creates a contradictory impression. Human Rights Organization SOVA Center for Information and Analysis (SOVA-Center) reported in 2015: «law enfor cement agencies successfully reduced the level of racist violence and activities by socially dangerous groups of nationalists.