Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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"Kacper Rekawek, a Slovakia-based researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, said Slotkin’s list is the type of list someone searching for far-right extremist groups on Google might draw up. 'The effort of Rep. Slotkin is commendable...
CounterPoint Blog
Last year, I was involved in Counter Extremism Project’s research effort on the transnational connectivity of violent right wing extremism and terrorism. One of the recommendations the work produced was the need for terrorism designations of violent...
Press Release
Last week, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to combat the rise of domestic extremist activity by designating more than a dozen white supremacist groups abroad as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)...
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler and CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann write: "Since 2014, a new leaderless, transnational, apocalyptic-minded, violence-oriented right-wing extremist and terrorist movement (GRXT) has emerged, which is...
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"'Visually, [these] groups use neo-Nazi imagery, including swastikas, black sun (sonnenrad) symbols, and skull masks which neo-Nazi accelerationist groups have adopted,' Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher and content review specialist at the Counter...
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CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "East Africa is being picked apart by extremist groups, organised crime syndicates and urban gangs, all of whom are routinely assisted by some corrupt members of the region’s political, civil and business...
Press Release
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located a pro-ISIS propaganda video on...
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CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky quoted: "'Terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, Isis and Hamas have long called for – and claimed responsibility for – vehicular terrorist attacks,' Lipowsky explained. 'In Europe and the Middle East, we’ve seen...
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"East Africa region a key security partner in the global war on terrorism and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new report dubbed Unholy Alliance...
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"Kacper Rekawek, a researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project and the author of a 2020 report on right-wing foreign fighters in Ukraine, told me that European intelligence agencies began taking notice years ago of extremists going to the...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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