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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.
Vice: Trump’s Continued Election Fight Fuelling Violent, Online Neo-Nazis
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CEP's Joshua Fisher-Birch quoted: "'Following Election Day, channels that make up the neo-Nazi accelerationist and extreme white supremacist sphere of Telegram have continued to declare that they cannot use the political system to meet their demands and have advocated for their followers to either increase tension or to stay out of the immediate situation because they view medium-term civil conflict as inevitable,' he said. According to him, much of the chatter is neither pro- or anti-Trump; instead online neo-Nazis think the 'system itself is the enemy.'"
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November 10, 2020
Daily Dose
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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