radical nationalists: true till death?
flict’ became of increasing public concern, especially after the
Manezhnaia riot.
- At the time, this group, a direct successor of Dmitrii Vasilev’s
National- patriotic Front Pamiat, appeared to be a typical militant
youth group, if stylistically somewhat exotic. The leader of the
Russian Liberation Front ‘Pamiat’ and several other people were
later convicted to several years’ imprisonment for criminal violence.
- The sole exception was the February 2012 march through
Iakimanka, with in the region of 800 to 900 nationalists. In many
other cases they numbered significantly less than 500.
- Counting all nationalist ‘marches’ on that day. In 2012 the ‘Russian
March’ was notably weaker because the radical wing was unwilling
to march together with leaders participating in the general protest
movement.
- The ‘Day of Heroes’, 1 March, is dedicated to the Pskov paratroop-
ers who died in battle in Chechnya in 2000.
- If we exclude the Navalniy phenomenon, it would appear that
national democrats have not managed to either – but that is beyond
the remit of my chapter.
- See, for example, the site of the WotanJugend group, available at
http://wotanjugend.info (last accessed 1 April).
- Marlene Laruelle (2014c) has estimated the number of fighters des-
patched to Donbas by the nationalists at in the region of 100 to 200.
The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis considers that there
are more, even not taking Cossacks into account.
- The National Liberation Movement is as yet little studied, but this
movement is undoubtedly nationalist. Judging by its current activi-
ties, it may be seen as part of the radical wing, although it is impos-
sible to call it part of the opposition (Strukova 2014).
- There is a lot of journalistic evidence; see, for example, Nikulin
(2014).
