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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.
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Hatebook Facebook’s neo-Nazi shopfronts funding far-right extremism
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CEP report "The Far Right on Facebook" from 2018 quoted in study: "In November 2018, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) catalogued a series of Facebook pages and groups that contravened the platform’s prohibition on hate speech.100 One of those pages was Walknvt, which forms the heart of the network of neo-Nazi accounts we identify in the previous section."
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November 22, 2020
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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