Police in the Moscow region have reported a sharp increase in the
number of youths belonging to extremist groups, according to a June
25, 2009 report by the Gazeta.ru news web site. Over the course of
numerous investigations and preventative work throughout 2009, police
identified over 140 youths who belong to extremist groups, including
75 neo-Nazis. The remainder are members of the National Bolshevik
Party and other unidentified groups. This figure is one and a half
times higher than the same period last year, further evidence that the
neo-Nazi movement is growing in Russia despite increased police
measures to suppress it.
