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    RUSSIA HAS 140-PLUS YOUTH EXTREMIST GROUPS - MINISTER

    RIA Novosti, Russia
    June 28 2006

    YEREVAN, June 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has more than 140 youth
    extremist groups with overall membership reaching 6,000, the country's
    interior minister said Wednesday.

    "Youth groups have become more aggressive and better organized, and
    some of them are under the influence of criminal organizations," said
    Rashid Nurgaliyev. He spoke to reporters in the Armenian capital,
    Yerevan, where he is attending a joint board session of Russia's
    interior ministry and Armenia's police force.

    Nurgaliev expressed concern over extremist organizations' promotion
    of violence among the younger generation.

    "It is worrying that some of the extremist organizations use violent
    forms and methods of protest, promoting them among young people,"
    he said.

    The minister said law-enforcement agencies had launched anti-extremism
    raids in 38 of Russia's 89 regions so far this year, tracking
    down groups believed to be behind serious crimes, including in
    St. Petersburg and in the southwestern region of Voronezh, both of
    which have acquired reputations as sites of Russia's most violent
    race-hate crimes.

    Voronezh has seen at least seven apparently racially motivated killings
    of non-white foreigners over the past six years, including the murder
    of a Peruvian student last October.

    St. Petersburg has been suffering from negative publicity over alleged
    neo-Nazi attacks and killings, including the killing of a student
    from Senegal in April and the stabbing of a nine-year-old girl of
    mixed Russian-African origin in early 2006.
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