Regional officials in Russia are asking a court to disband a local branch of a neo-Nazi group. The officials in western Siberia took the action against Russian National Unity after receiving a directive from the chief Russian prosecutor calling for a crackdown on extremist groups, according to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union.
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