Extremist Russian Community Now Active Across Russian Federation, Threatening Both Immigrants and Indigenous Non-Russians as Well

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Oct. 20 – The extremist and often violent Russian Community, which rose to prominence over the last year in the North Caucasus and Russian cities west of the Urals, now has gone country-wide with 140 cells in the capitals of non-Russian areas in Siberia and the Russian Far East as well (youtube.com/watch?v=7RFvUfOXYTg).

            The group, which enjoys the support of the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church as well as many Moscow-appointed heads of the non-Russian republics within the Russian Federation, is now attacking not only immigrants but indigenous populations and promoting racist policies against both.

            For background on this group, which is rapidly growing and threatens to become an organization like the Black Hundreds at the end of the tsarist period, see jamestown.org/program/russian-community-extremists-becoming-the-black-hundreds-of-today/, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/extreme-right-russian-community.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/09/russian-community-now-largest-extreme.html.

            The group is so radical and violent that it is already generating resistance even among republic elites, a development that almost certainly will spark violence if regional heads are given the power to form militias, as the Kremlin is urging (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/10/chechnya-seeks-to-rein-in-russian.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/09/moscow-gives-heads-of-all-federal.html.)