Washington put a white supremacist group on its blacklist for international terrorism on Monday for the first time to show its determination in the face of this particularly acute " threat " in the United States, despite the ambiguity often blamed on Donald Trump.
The measure targets a group called the Russian Imperial Movement and three of its leaders, Stanislav Vorobiev, Denis Gariev and Nikolai Trushchalov. " This is the first time that the United States has put white supremacist terrorists on this black list, which shows how seriously this government takes this threat, " said the State Department's Counterterrorism Coordinator. American, Nathan Sales.
If an old website of this small group has been banned in Russia for extremism, the movement itself is not considered " terrorist " by Moscow. Washington accuses him, however, of " providing paramilitary training to neo-Nazis and white supremacists " in two centers in Saint Petersburg, and of having thus trained Swedes who then carried out attacks in their country in late 2016-early 2017 .
This monarchist movement claims to be able to train in knife fighting and martial arts, and considers "a criminal weakness for a modern man in Russia not to be a warrior ". " We want to make sure he can't do the same here in the United States, " Nathan Sales warned during a conference call with reporters. He also mentioned the involvement of this organization sometimes called the “ Imperial Legion ” alongside the pro-Russians in the war in Ukraine.
