Factbox: Groups that Russia has declared extremist

  • 5/6/2021
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A Russian court is considering a prosecutor"s request to outlaw jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny"s Anti-Corruption Foundation and regional campaign headquarters as "extremist". read more Here are some of the other organisations that have already been labelled as such. NATIONAL BOLSHEVIK PARTY A post-Soviet political party espousing far-right and far-left ideas, banned in 2007. TABLIGHI JAMAAT An Islamic missionary movement, labelled extremist in 2009. SLAVIC UNION A neo-Nazi group, outlawed as extremist in 2010. UKRAINE"S RIGHT SECTOR A far-right Ukrainian nationalist organisation, declared extremist in 2014. MISANTHROPIC DIVISION A radical nationalist group, declared extremist in 2015. JEHOVAH"S WITNESSES A Christian denomination known in the West for door-to-door preaching, declared extremist in 2017. FALUN GONG A regional office of the spiritual group in Siberia, banned in 2020. The movement was founded in China in 1992, but was banned on the Chinese mainland in 1999.

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