The New Russian Nationalism Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism
radical nationalists: true till death?
- There are only two exceptions of note: Igor Artemov’s Russian
All- National Union (Russkii obshchenatsional’nyi soiuz) (RONS),
which has managed to remain active and to play a significant role
in the movement to this day; and Sergei Baburin’s Russian All-
People’s Union (Rossiiskii obshchenarodnyi soiuz) (ROS), which
at the beginning of the period under study regained an active role,
thanks to an infusion of new forces. Its opposition tendencies may
be considered moderate, however.
- The chapter draws significantly on the reports prepared by my col-
leagues at the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, and I am
grateful to them for their analyses of a huge body of information.
Galina Kozhevnikova was the main author of these reports until
her death in 2010; since then Nataliia Iudina and Vera Alperovich
have assumed that function. All reports may be accessed on the
SOVA Center for Information and Analysis website, available at
<http://www.sova- center.ru/racism- xenophobia/publications> (last
accessed 1 March 2015), and are also published in the SOVA
Center for Information and Analysis’s annual collections, avail-
able at <http://www.sova- center.ru/books> (last accessed 1 March
2015). In this chapter I will confine myself to a few citations.
- Detailed statistics on hate crime and related convictions may
be found in the appendices to every major SOVA Center for
Information and Analysis report. At the time of writing, the most
recent is Al’perovich and Yudina (2014b).
- The facts relating to violence are outlined only briefly here, as this
analysis is based on SOVA Center for Information and Analysis
reports and also on Verkhovsky (2014b), to which the reader is
referred.
- Jumping ahead a bit, I should add that this decline did not result
in the emergence of a new, undisputed leader, although at the
time Russian Image clearly had pretentions in this regard (see
Kozhevnikova 2009).
- According to figures from the Prosecutor General (available at
http://crimestat.ru/offenses_chart, last accessed 1 April 2015),
the number of crimes committed by non- citizens rose by 10 per cent
in 2013, although it decreased before and after. The increase was
even more marked in Moscow and St Petersburg: 36 per cent and 34
per cent, respectively. It seems clear that these figures reflect fluctua-
tions in police practice and not in criminality.
- All substantive incidents of this sort are described in SOVA Center
for Information and Analysis annual reports.
