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A few days ago, new information has emerged that further corroborates this argument. On 5-6 September 2015, representatives of the
RID visited Sweden and took part in a
meeting of the Swedish fascist organisation
Nordic Resistance (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen), which was invited to join the
WNCM earlier. During his talk, the
RID's leader
Stanislav Vorobyov, warned about "a full-scale war against the traditional values of Western civilisation" and explained that the uniform in which he showed up at the meeting was a symbol of their fight against "the Jewish oligarchs in Ukraine" on the side of pro-Russian extremists in Eastern Ukraine. Furthermore, he claimed that "the Zionist strategy in the Middle East would be used int he future to divide and rule the nations of Europe".
Most importantly, however, the Swedish
report on the meeting states that, during its visit to Sweden, the Russian delegation has donated money to the Swedish fascists as a contribution to the building of a political party on the basis of the "
Nordic Resistance". The information about the donation has been
confirmed by the
RID itself. The amount of the donation remains has not been disclosed.
The
RID is not an ordinary far right organisation, but a fascist paramilitary movement that poses a potential terrorist threat to democratic societies. To understand the nature of this movement, as well as getting more insight into the
WNCM that was co-founded by the
RID, it seems appropriate to consider the current activities of the movement.
The
RID was established in 2002 in St. Petersburg by
Stanislav Vorobyov. Its major political goals are the revival of the Russian Empire (and regaining the "lost" territories) and the restoration of the Russian monarchy.
Since 2014, the
RID was actively involved in the Russian war on Ukraine. Curiously,
Vorobyov arrived in Ukraine right after the start of the occupation of Crimea by the Russian "
little green men". The building of the Crimean parliament was seized by the Russian special ops forces on 27 February 2014, and
Vorobyov arrived in Crimea the next day.
Vorobyov described their visit to Crimea as follows:
I accompanied an airplane to Crimea that carried Russian military instructors who were to organise the local resistance movement. I remember one night the SBU guys [Ukrainian security officers] burned documents in their yard - then I understood that we were going to annex [Crimea].
On 14 March 2014, yet another groups of the
RID members headed by
Nikolay Trushchalov went to Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine. In Donetsk, they met with the representatives of a number of pro-Russian right-wing extremist organisations, in particular with the members of the "
Donetsk Republic" that had
long-standing relations with the Eurasianist movement headed by
Russian fascist Alexander Dugin.