The Interior Ministry is currently monitoring 150 extremist groups in Russia, in particular race-hate groups, which have total membership of around 10,000, the minister said Wednesday.
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November 15, 2006Russian Federal Security Service has detained two Uzbeks belonging to the international religious extremist organization Hezb-e Tahrir, RIA-Novosti reports.
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A jury in southern Russia acquitted a man being retried for an apartment building blast in 1999 that killed 64 people and led to Moscow’s renewed military campaign in Chechnya, The Associated Press news agency reports quoting a statement by a court spokesman.
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A 17-year-old university student was attacked in northern Moscow earlier this week by unknown thugs. Ethnic Chechen identified as Kazbek Dadakhanov is said to be related to former mayor of Grozny Bislan Gantamirov, Kommersant Daily reported Friday.
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November 10, 2006Police in Moscow on Saturday arrested more than 200 suspected rightwing extremists demonstrating against immigration by non-Russians.
Despite the arrests, around 2,000 people gathered for a demonstration lead in the Russian capital called by ultranationalist parties in honour of Russia’s newly created Day of National Unity.
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November 7, 2006
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