Members of a far-right nationalist group clashed this week with Russian police preventing them from rallying outside the Kremlin to commemorate the birthday of Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned the event a few hours in advance after learning that the rally by the Pamyat movement would feature neo-Nazi symbols. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the group was known as one of the most active and rabidly anti-Semitic organizations in Russia, with branches all across the country.
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