National Socialist Movement "Slavic Union" (russian: Национал-социалистическое движение "Славянский союз", Natsional-sotsialisticheskoye dvizheniye "Slavyanskiy soyuz") was a Russian

neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial supremacy (often white supremacy), attack ...

organization founded in 1999 by

Dmitry Demushkin Dmitry Nikolayevich Demushkin (russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Дёмушкин; born 7 May 1979) is a Russian nationalist activist, politician and public figure. He founded the neo-Nazi organization "Slavic Union" in 1999, which wa ...

. In 2010, it was banned by the

Moscow City Court The Moscow City Court (russian: Московский городской суд (Мосгорсуд), Moskovsky gorodskoy sud (Mosgorsud)) is the highest judicial body of the city of Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Моск ...

History

Slavic Union was founded in September 1999 by

. Slavic Union was banned by the Moscow City Court on 27 April 2010 following charges by prosecutors that the group promotes

national socialism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...

with "ideas similar to the ideology of

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

". Responding to the ban on 27 April, Demushkin noted that the Slavic Union had been "banned all across Russia" and indicated that an appeal to higher legal authority of the organization's prohibition would "definitely" be forthcoming. Since then, the group has remained active underground. In September 2010 information surfaced that the organization allegedly has opened offices in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

. This was reported when

Viacheslav Datsik Viacheslav Valerievich Datsik (russian: Вячесла́в Вале́рьевич Да́цик, ; born 13 February 1980), also known as Red Tarzan and Red-Haired Tarzan, is a Russian white supremacist, convicted felon, professional boxer and fo ...

showed up at Norwegian immigration authorities requesting

political asylum The right of asylum (sometimes called right of political asylum; ) is an ancient juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, like a second country or another entit ...

. Datsik had shortly before escaped from a mental institution near

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and was believed to have reached Norway on board an arms-trafficking vessel. Together with two other persons he was arrested by

Norwegian police The Norwegian Police Service ( no, Politi- og lensmannsetaten) is the Norwegian national civilian police agency. The service dates to the 13th century when the first sheriffs were appointed, and the current structure established in 2003. It c ...

on suspicion of having possible links to organized crime.

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