Neo-Nazism

Markelov and Baburova’s Murders One Year Past

By Sean at 19 January, 2010, 9:07 am

One year ago, an assassin in a ski masked shot anti-fascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov in the back in the head near Kropotkinskaya metro. The killer then shot Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova as she went after him. She died in a hospital shortly thereafter. Both were well known antifascists. The memory of these two figures, however, not only reminds us of the plight of human rights activists and journalists in Russia, but also the specter of Russian fascist violence.

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Video: From Russia with Hate

By Sean at 18 August, 2009, 8:26 am

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The Russian Diaspora in Israel

By Sean at 18 June, 2006, 7:04 pm

According to my unscientific survey, the Russian diaspora in Israel is an under reported topic in blogs on Russia. I present excerpts from two articles from Haaretz in hopes of beginning a discussion. The first tells of Russian anti-Semitism toward Orthodox Jews in the form of neo-Nazis, while the second reports on the [...]

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