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US Designates Russian White Supremacist Group as Terror Organization

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By Nike Ching April 06, 2020

The United States has designated the white supremacist group Russian Imperial Movement (RIM,) as a global terrorist organization, an unprecedented move that reflects increasing concerns about violent white supremacists with transnational connections.

In Monday's State Department announcement, three of RIM's leaders – Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariev and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov – have also been designated global terrorists.

The move comes after the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The March 15, 2019, attack was linked to a global rise in white supremacism and alt-right extremism since 2015.

"These historic designations are just one part of the administration's broader efforts to counter white supremacist terrorism abroad," Nathan Sales, the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism and ambassador-at-large, said Monday.