Moscow’s mayor vowed to crack down on political extremism after Russia’s largest ultranationalist group marched in the capital. Yuri Luzhkov, a possible contender for the Russian presidency, also lashed out at his own police force for failing to prevent the march by Russian National Unity, whose members favor black shirts and Nazi-style armbands. Meanwhile, Luzhkov ordered last week that neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic newspapers not be sold in a central Moscow square near the Kremlin.
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