Russian fascists emerge in Latvia

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Russian fascists emerge in Latvia


Jamestown Foundation Monitor - Vol.V, No.27
 
Tuesday, February 9, 1999
 
MONITOR - A DAILY BRIEFING ON THE POST-SOVIET STATES
 
RUSSIAN FASCISTS EMERGE IN LATVIA. Russian National Unity (RNE) - the
avowedly fascist movement led by Aleksandr Barkashov in Russia - seems
to have begun seeping across the border into Latvia. The group has
just distributed in Latvia, illegally, the first issue of a bulletin
titled "Russkaya ataka" ["Russian Offensive"] in a purported print run
of 3,000 copies. As reported by the Russian-language Riga newspaper
"Chas" yesterday, the inaugural issue summarizes RNE's history and
program, promising to report in the next issue on RNE's alleged
activities in Latvia. The bulletin urges Russians in Baltic and
post-Soviet countries in general to support the restoration of a
Greater Russia, to give a fitting rebuff to "impudent small brothers
in the ethnic peripheries," and to join RNE in preparing for
unspecified "decisive actions" (BNS, February 8).
 
Another Russian radical-fringe group, the National-Bolsheviks,
surfaced in Latvia last year as an extension of the eponymous
organization of Eduard Limonov in Russia. Its few activists in Latvia,
clad in distinctive leather jackets, have appeared at several
unauthorized rallies in Riga. Russian red-brown groups in Latvia
publish illegally the bulletins "General Line" and "Red Orchestra."
RNE, currently the object of long-overdue though still half-hearted
police measures in Russia, apparently seeks to increase its profile in
selected "peripheries." In the last two weeks RNE has aggressively
descended on Belarus (see the Monitor, February 8).
 
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