Black Hundreds reproduce by budding

On November 22, 2006, it was announced that at the congress of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods (SPBKhV) held on that day in Moscow, two co-chairmen of the Union of the Russian People (SRN) were elected. They were expelled from the LDPR, deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich, and Leonid Simonovich (Niksic), leader of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers (SPKh). As always, one of the veterans of the Russian nationalist movement, the leader of the Union of Christian Revival (SHV), Vladimir Osipov, played an active role at the SPBKhV congress.

From the reports of this event, it becomes clear that the co-chairs did not head the RNC, which was created in 2005 by the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov and is now actually headed by Leonid Ivashov, but some "alternative" RNC, proclaimed back in 2002, but activated only now, in due to the fact that "Ivashov has departed from the principles of the RNC, which leads to the collapse of the organization . "

Almost simultaneously with this, a new scandal erupted in the "Klykovo-Ivashov" RNC, in the St. Petersburg branch of which there is already a tough confrontation between the "moderates" headed by Anatoly Stepanov (chief editor of the Russkaya Liniya website) and the "radicals" headed by Konstantin Dushenov (editor of the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper). On November 11, 2006, during a meeting of the Main Council of the RNC, radical anti-Semites Mikhail Nazarov (the author of the Five Hundred Letter ) and Konstantin Dushenov entered into an open confrontation with the Moscow leader of the RNC Alexei Senin (editor-in-chief of the Russky Vestnik newspaper), Konstantin Dushenov even got into a fight with A. Senin's bodyguard. According to some reports, right-wing radical Alexander Turik from Irkutsk is going to join the "radicals". True, the St. Petersburg "radical wing", unlike the Moscow one, supports General Ivashov.

The confusion is aggravated by the fact that Vladimir Osipov acted as the founder of the "Klykovo" RNC, and Nikolai Kuryanovich joined it literally on the eve of his "alternative" election - November 15, 2006.

All these difficulties will have to be resolved at the congress of the RNC, scheduled for November 27.

Based on materials from right-wing radical sites