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Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Foreign Fighters – Part 2

During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in...

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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of the extreme right for the Counter Extremism Project, has kept tabs on rightwing extremists and their fascination with Ukraine.

'Chatter among the American online extreme right regarding travel to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion has decreased in the last year,' he said, pointing out that in some cases talk about venturing to the war was 'either never serious' or a blatant 'attempt to raise money through crowdfunding, or was abandoned due to the brutal reality of the conflict or no longer seeing a goal for the American movement'."

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January 11, 2024
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CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller policy paper on prosecution of returnees in France and CEP report on ISIS's persecution of gay people quoted: "The IIIM’s mandate to only support requests for evidence related to core international crimes has prompted more States to explore such crimes alongside their terrorist cases...
ISIL further capitalized on preexisting homophobia to establish and institutionalize its persecution of gay men."

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November 13, 2023
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"Kacper Rekawek, a nonresident research fellow at the Counter Extremism Project who is familiar with documents between the Ukrainian military and foreign fighters, said that the legion contract appears to be real."

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July 19, 2023
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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