The United States recognized the nationalist organization "Russian Imperial Movement" by terrorists

The US State Department introduced the Russian Imperial Movement based in St. Petersburg in the register of terrorist organizations, where only the associations of radically Islamist was in the form. Any transactions are prohibited with them, their property in America will be frozen, and sanctions will impose on three leaders of movement.

“The United States first imposes sanctions against supporters of the superiority of the White race. This confirms how seriously the administration of the current president refers to this problem. We are taking measures that have not previously introduced under any president, ”announced at a briefing at a briefing on counter -terrorism Naitan Sales.

The New York Times, which was the first to report on the plans of the Trump administration, noted that the emphasis on their “serious attitude” to the supporters of the superiority of the whites was made by chance: Trump was accused of his electorate, white nationalists were; He himself said that during the clashes in Charlotsville in 2017 there were "on both sides there were very pleasant people."

In Russia, RID was not banned by court decision, but their site and several numbers of their publication were entered in the register of extremist materials. The movement itself, founded in the beginning of the 2000s in St. Petersburg, calls itself a "Russian Orthodox national-patriotic and monarchical organization." American officials do not believe that they had supporters in the United States, but they were involved in other attacks and visited Washington a few years ago.

As the Center for the “Owl, the Russian Imperial Movement,was recalling Russian nationalists, they were involved in the conflict in Ukraine: together with the Rodina party, they created the“ For New Russia ”movement, were recruiting and military preparation of volunteers in St. Petersburg, and the Imperial Legion battalion on the side of the separatists participated in their auspices in Slavyansk and the Slavyansk. Nikishino. In early 2015, they left the Donbass.

Reid also contacted neo -Nazi groups in Scandinavia, notes the New York Times. In particular, in 2017, in Sweden, during the trial, over three supporters of the National Socialist “Northern Resistance Movement” who were accused of preparing the explosions in Gothenborg, it became known that in the summer of 2016 military training in the training camp of Rid near St. Petersburg.

One of the leaders of Reed, the comrade -in -arms of the ultranationalist Alexander Potkin Stanislav Vorobyov called the decision of the American authorities political and noted that they are not related to the "northern movement of resistance." Denis Gariev, the leader of the “Imperial Legion”, also came under the sanctions, previously said “new” that convicts because of the explosions only once played in St. Petersburg in Stiikbol.