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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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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler discussed the threat posed by an increasingly transnational far-right extremism, including those driven by white supremacist ideologies such as the "Great Replacement" theory, and the need for cross-border...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, representatives of far-right groups like Alternative für Deutschland in Germany and Lega Nord in Italy have won support in national elections in recent years by pushing anti-immigrant rhetoric. Other...
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CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann writes: "At the regional or municipal level, there are some positive examples across the EU – particularly in Germany – of how activities of violence-oriented right-wing extremists can be disrupted, eg, through...
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a senior analyst at the New York-headquartered Counter Extremism Project who had previously called for the podcast to be taken down, welcomed the move. 'It’s a positive step that PodOmatic has decided to stop hosting Rundo and...
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"'Robert Rundo and Denis ‘Nikitin’ Kapustin both promote a white nationalist movement rooted in an extreme right-wing hyper-masculinity that focuses on using physical fitness, street combat, and MMA to proselytise,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a senior...
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with J.J. Green of WTOP's The Hunt about how ISIS continues to post material on Facebook, and gets away with it.
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CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann referenced: "In the past, says extremism expert Alexander Ritzmann, right-wing extremists were focused on the fight for their own country. Today, though, the focus has shifted – to the defense of the "white race...
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CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann writes: "Die Rechtsextremen in den einzelnen Ländern verbindet ihre transnationale rechtsextreme Ideologie der Ungleichwertigkeit von Menschen. Sie alle eint, dass sie die offene Gesellschaft bekämpfen wollen."
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CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Europe’s various populists, identitarians, and reactionaries are not simply shades of the same American threat. To lump all of these disparate groups and movements together, especially as extensions of the...
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"In January, IS militants carried out at least 46 attacks in central Syria, killing at least 55 pro-Syrian government fighters and 26 civilians, according to the Counter Extremism Project."
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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