Actually, swastikas aren't a big fashion accessory for Russian far-rightists. Russia National Unity has a symbol that is reminescent of a swastika and is probably intended to resemble one, but it's not.
These groups are mostly pan-Slavic supremacists. Even Russia National Unity and the National Bolshevik Party condemn German fascism. Though somebody must be painting the swastikas you see occasionally scrawled on walls in Moscow. And there is a Russian National Socialist Party.
Wait a sec -- in Turkey, is there actually a bona fide political party that openly identifies with fascism?
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ----------------------------
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:09:31 +0200 From: "Hakki Alacakaptan" <nucleus at superonline.com> Subject: RE: Chechnya and Russian ultra-rightist
Reminds me of Turkish recruits sending the ears of the ARGK militants they killed to their girlfriends. Then they all come home as heroes and go vote fascist, along with all their pals.
What I don't get is fascists are supposed to be ultranationalists; how can a Russian be ultranationalist and wear a swastika?
Hakki