Critics say the Kremlin is to blame for the rise in neo-nationalist movements, arguing they have been allowed to flourish in recent years.
Unlike many human rights activists and the country’s marginalized gay community, neo-nationalists have been allowed to hold rallies -- a right guaranteed by the Russian constitution.
Yet amid this crackdown, President Vladimir Putin’s government has also sought to forge its own state nationalism – and used elements of the ultra-nationalist agenda in its increasingly anti-Western, neo-conservative and isolationist ideology
many ultra-nationalists fled Russia – sometimes preferring to fight in eastern Ukraine on both sides of the conflict.
The largest players in the field of official, Kremlin-sanctioned nationalism are the deeply conservative and immensely powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the resurgent “armies” of Cossacks, czarist-era paramilitary forces, and right-wing parties.
the Kremlin cultivates ties with [far right groups] in the European Union to promote Moscow’s agenda. (...) representatives of Western far-right political parties, including neo-Nazi groups from Germany, Greece, and the UK, met for a Kremlin-funded conference in St Petersburg
That's great you're so easily willing to only read and absorb the inserted opionated editorial propaganda yet completely ignore the real reporting backed by material reality
Where are all the Nazis and nationalists in the military and government like you claimed. Tell me
They didn't deny that. Both armies are packed with nationalists
Did you wake up this morning telling yourself that you were going to both-sides Nazism?
Could you give me a source or any proof that the Russian army is packed with Nazis?
They constantly crack down on fascists all the time ever since Putin was in office. Russia probably has the strongest anti Nazi culture of any country
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/world/europe/24iht-russia.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-medvedev-nationalism-idUSTRE70G4DP20110117
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/23/behind-russias-ultra-nationalist-crackdown
Very strong antifascist culture indeed.
That's great you're so easily willing to only read and absorb the inserted opionated editorial propaganda yet completely ignore the real reporting backed by material reality
Where are all the Nazis and nationalists in the military and government like you claimed. Tell me