The Supreme Court of an autonomous region within Russia temporarily suspended the activities of the local branch of the country’s strongest neo-Nazi group, according to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. The court in Karelia based this rare decision regarding Russian National Unity mainly on technicalities, and only secondarily on the group’s work to sow racial and economic rifts.
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