Up to 50 skinhead and other extremist youth groups exist in Russia, according to Russia’s Interior Ministry. The Interfax news agency said last Friday that Russian police have stepped up undercover work among skinhead groups to “track and localize leaders and activists of criminal youth movements, including skinheads,” the Interior Ministry’s press service said.
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