The New Russian Nationalism Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism
the new russian nationalism
- At the time of writing, the most recent pogrom conducted spe-
cifically by young football fans took place in the Moscow region of
Pushkino on 15 May 2014.
- This relationship has been analysed by sociologist Aleksei Levinson
(Levada Centre 2014c). For further details about this particular
campaign, see Tolz and Harding (2015).
- Law enforcement agencies have been investigating fewer and fewer
incidents of violent racist crime, and more and more cases of hate
propaganda, making racist violence once again less risky. This
increasing distortion has been described in detail in Al’perovich and
Yudina (2013, 2014a, 2014b).
- Prior to this, Mangushev was coordinator of the Orthodox move-
ment Supporters of St George! (Georgievtsy!), especially notorious
for its unsuccessful efforts to attack gays. During the war in Donbas
Bright Rus has been busy supplying ‘humanitarian aid’.
- Konstantinov was soon arrested on a murder charge, which most
civil rights activists consider unfounded.
- This veteran of the radical nationalist movement and member of
the Opposition Coordination Council is charged with organising a
provocation by means of inflicting bodily harm.
- Before this, Khudiakov participated in the equally violent raids of
the ‘Youth anti- narcotics special forces’ of the Young Russia move-
ment. He was briefly arrested after a brawl during a raid on an
immigrant hostel. Khudiakov was taking part in pro- Russian action
in Donbas in the spring of 2014.
- Data from a Romir survey of 1,000 respondents across Russia
and 600 in Moscow in May 2013, at the request of the interna-
tional academic project ‘Nation- building, nationalism and the
new “other” in today’s Russia, NEORUSS’. It should be noted
that there is significantly more xenophobia in Moscow than in
Russia as a whole, and the gap between support for theoretical
‘skinheads’ and theoretical ‘Cossacks’ is even greater than the
average.
- Aid to ‘prisoners on the right’ is a rapidly developing field in need of
serious scrutiny by researchers.
- Ilia Goriachev and some other activists gave the investigators the
testimony needed in the trial of Nikita Tikhonov and Evgeniia
Khasis, and the publication of these protocols led to Russian Image
being stonewalled in radical nationalist circles.
- Although the level actually remained relatively stable from 2000
until 2012 (Levada Centre 2013c), the theme of ‘interethnic con-
