United States designates Russian nationalist group as terrorist organisation

Officials say the St Petersburg-based Russian Imperial Movement is the first white nationalist group to be listed as foreign terror group

ByRoland Oliphant, SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT6 April 2020 • 5:48pm

United States designates Russian nationalist group as terrorist ...

Members of the Russian Imperial Movement pose at a training base in St Petersburg in 2015

The United States has designated a Russian nationalist group as a terrorist organisation, in its first such move against a foreign white nationalist organization.

The Russian Imperial Movement, which campaigns for the restoration of an ethnic Russian empire ruled by an orthodox Christian absolute monarchy, was added to the State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organisations on Monday.

Three leaders, Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariev and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov, were designated as individual terrorists.

The designation means the US treasury department can block or seize any US property or assets owned by the group, ban its members from visiting the US, and bar American citizens from doing business with them.

(C)The Telegraph 2020

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