Slavic Union (Russia)

Not to be confused with Slavic Union (Poland).

Political party in Russia

Slavic Union

Славянский союз

The group's insignia, a stylized Tursaansydän made to represent two S's.

Abbreviation| SU (English)
СС (Russian)
SS (Romanized)
Founder| Dmitry Demushkin
Founded| September 1999 (1999-09)
Banned| June 29, 2010 (2010-06-29)
Split from| Russian National Unity
Succeeded by| Russians
Ideology| Neo-Nazism[1][2][3]
Anti-immigration
Pan-Slavism[4]
Russian nationalism[2]
Ultranationalism[5]
Anti-communism
Antisemitism[6]
Political position| Far-right[3]
Religion| Slavic paganism[4][7]
Colours|   Red   White
Slogan| "Russia for Russians"
Party flag

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National Socialist Movement "Slavic Union" (Russian: Национал-социалистическое движение «Славянский союз», romanized: Natsional-sotsialisticheskoye dvizheniye «Slavyanskiy soyuz»)[2] was a Russian neo-Nazi organization founded in 1999 by Dmitry Demushkin.[8] In 2010, it was banned by the Moscow City Court.[1][8] The group's website, in Russian, links to extensive material on Holocaust denial and to works by Adolf Hitler. Its organizational logo was a stylized swastika and the group's initials, "SS" in Russian, are the same as those used by the German Schutzstaffel during World War II.[8] The party was also notorious for promoting a far-right, "Aryan" tradition of Slavic paganism.[7] The organisation was described as ultranationalist and anti-Semitic.[5][6]

## History

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Slavic Union was founded in September 1999 by Dmitry Demushkin.[8] In Autumn 2000, there was a conflict in the leadership of Russian National Unity, as a result of which on 21 September 2000, at a closed plenum of commanders of sixteen regional branches, it was announced that Alexander Barkashov, the founder and leader of the movement, had been expelled from the ranks of Russian National Unity.[9][10] In October of the same year, O. Kassin's moderate patriotic movement Russian Revival was established on the basis of the Moscow and Stavropol branches of Russian National Unity.[11] Dmitry Demushkin also split from Russian National Unity, founding his own movement Slavic Union.[12]

Europe-Asia Studies called the Slavic Union the best known Russian neo-Nazi organisation, although it stressed that it had very few members.[13] Along with Russian All-National Union, it was the only far-right organisation in Russia to have had permanent bases used for training camps. Main activities of the party involved paramilitary training and low-scale racist attacks. Officially, the party claimed to not have endorsed violent activities, although individual members of the organisation were tried for violent acts up to the party's ban in 2010. In 2006, Demushkin was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a mosque attack in the town of Yakhroma. In September 2008, another leader of the Slavic Union was arrested for murder of a Tajik and a Dagestani.[13]

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation listed the Slavic Union as one of the "most active extremist associations" in Russia in 2009, along with organisations such as: "National Socialist Society", "Movement Against Illegal Immigration", "Northern Brotherhood."[14] The Slavic Union was sympathetic to German National Socialism, although it did not advertise this.[15][16]

Slavic Union was banned by the Moscow City Court on 27 April 2010 following charges by prosecutors that the group promotes national socialism with "ideas similar to the ideology of Nazi Germany".[3][8][17] 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.[18] Since then, the group has remained active underground.

In September 2010 information surfaced that the organization allegedly has opened offices in Norway. This was reported when Viacheslav Datsik showed up at Norwegian immigration authorities requesting political asylum. Datsik had shortly before escaped from a mental institution near Saint Petersburg and was believed to have reached Norway on board an arms-trafficking vessel. Together with two other persons he was arrested by Norwegian police on suspicion of having possible links to organized crime.[19] In 2012, it was reported that an underground successor to the Slavic Union called the Slavic Force (Slavyanskaya Sila) was formed.[20]

## Ideology

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Slavic Union was described as neo-Nazi, pan-Slavic, white supremacist, nativist, anti-immigration, anti-communist, anti-Semitic and homophobic.[1][2][5] When the organisation was created in 1999, Russia had a very high immigration rate, which was reflected in the xenophobic rhetoric of the Slavic Union. The organisation blamed refugees and foreign migrant workers, as well as minorities such as the Jews and the LGBT community, for the supposed decline of Russia as well as the "Slavic world" itself.[4]

At its core, the organisation is pan-Slavic and promotes the concept of unifying all Slavic nations. Zeev Sternhell classified the organisation's rooted as anti-Enlightenment, perceiving "democracy and pleas for equality…[as] an attack on the natural order". In promoting pan-Slavism, the organisation made appeals to "blood purity" and "the greatness and the power of the Slavic race", while also promoting military strength that a union of all Slavic countries would supposedly possess. Slavic Union made references to historical states that encompassed much of the Slavic world such as Kievan Rus and the Soviet Union; the organisation even repurposed Soviet propaganda posters, replacing the communist hammer and sickle with paganist tribal signs.[4]

In order to complement its pan-Slavic rhetoric, the organisation also promoted Slavic paganism and often references Slavic legends and methodology as to create the image of a powerful, pre-Christian "Slavic race". The symbols of German National Socialists were connected and combined with Slavic ones, resulting in reversed swastikas and Slavic runes, including rune-styled Slavic words.[4]

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b c "Factbox: Groups that Russia has declared extremist". Reuters. 6 May 2021.
2. ^ a b c d "Что такое "Славянский союз"". Kommersant. 25 July 2006.
3. ^ a b c "В России запрещен ультраправый "Славянский союз"". BBC Russian. 27 April 2010.
4. ^ a b c d e Nataliia Vdovychenko (27 November 2018). "Slavic Union is on the rise in Eastern Europe". diggitmagazine.com. Tilburg University.
5. ^ a b c Mansur Mirovalev (23 September 2015). "Behind Russia's ultra-nationalist crackdown". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera.
6. ^ a b Richard Arnold (13 April 2015). "Russian Neo-Nazis 'Celebrate' Hitler's Birthday, Part One: Background". Jamestown. Jamestown Foundation.
7. ^ a b Aitamurto, Kaarina (2015). More Russian Than Orthodox Christianity: Russian Paganism as Nationalist Politics. In L. M. Herrington, A. McKay, & J. Haynes (Eds.), Nations under God: The Geopolitics of Faith in the Twenty-First Century (PDF). Bristol: E-IR Edited Collections. pp. 126–132\. ISBN 978-1-910814-06-2.
8. ^ a b c d e "Slavic Union Banned". The Moscow Times. 28 April 2010. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
9. ^ "Lenta.ru online news outlet". Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
10. ^ "Newsru.com online news outlet". 22 September 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
11. ^ "Moscow Helsinki Group". Archived from the original on 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-03-27.
12. ^ "Dmitri Demushkin: Biography, education, family". Lenta.ru. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
13. ^ a b Laryš, Martin; Mareš, Miroslav (January 2011). "Right-Wing Extremist Violence in the Russian Federation". Europe-Asia Studies. 63 (1). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 129–154\. doi:10.1080/09668136.2011.534308. JSTOR 27975516. S2CID 153613351.
14. ^ Dobrynina S. Yuri Chaika: Russia needs to create a clear system of countering extremism. Rossiyskaya gazeta, 2009
15. ^ ""Special Correspondent": The Principle of Hate". Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
16. ^ Zeya, Nikita (2010-08-25). ""Datsik is coming for you"". Gazeta.ru. Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
17. ^ "Организацию "Славянский союз" уже сегодня могут закрыть". Ekho Moskvy. 21 April 2010.
18. ^ K.K. and D.P., "Court bans Slavic Union - organization," Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Interfax.com, April 27, 2010. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
19. ^ Jake Hughes (11 May 2016). "Viacheslav Datsik Has Become a "Public Defender" Since His Release From Prison". vice.com.
20. ^ Verkhovsky, Alexander (2012). "The Ultra-Right in Russia in 2012" (PDF). International Policy Analysis. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: 5. ISBN 978-3-86498-292-7.

## Further reading

[edit]

* Semyon Charny, "Racism, xenophobia, ethnic discrimination and anti-Semitism in Russia (January-June 2005)," Summarized review. Moscow Bureau for Human Rights.

## External links

[edit]

* Slavic Union's official website at the Wayback Machine (archived December 17, 2014) (in Russian)

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Personalities|

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* Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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Before 1991|

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* Konstantin Rodzaevsky
* Mikhail Skobelev
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* Vasily Shulgin

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* Russian Opposition Coordination Council
* Russian People's Democratic Union
* Russian Social Democratic Union of Youth
* Russian Socialist Movement
* Slavic Union
* Socialist Resistance
* Socialist League Vpered
* Society of Blue Buckets
* StopXam
* The Other Russia
* TIGR
* Union of the Russian People
* Walking Together
* Young Russia

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Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia

Protests|

* 2004–2005 Benefits monetization protests
* Dissenters' March
* 2011–2013 protests
* Bolotnaya Square case
* 2014 anti-war protests
* 2017–2018 protests
* Termless protest
* 2018 pension protests
* 2018–2019 Ingushetia protests
* 2019 Moscow protests
* 2020–2021 Khabarovsk Krai protests
* 2021 protests
* 2021 election protests
* 2022 anti-war protests
* North Caucasian protests
* Far East protests
* 2024 Bashkortostan protests
* Noon Against Putin

Unrest|

* 2010 Moscow riots
* 2013 Biryulyovo riots
* Belarusian and Russian partisan movement
* 2022–2023 military commissariats attacks
* 2022–2023 rail war

Annual|

* Strategy-31
* Russian marches
* Anti-capitalism

Coalitions|

* Committee 2008
* The Other Russia
* Solidarnost
* Opposition Coordination Council
* Anti-Corruption Foundation
* Navalny Headquarters
* Free Russia Forum
* Anti-War Committee of Russia
* True Russia
* Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
* Russian Action Committee
* Congress of People's Deputies
* A Just World

Organizations|

| Liberal|

* Democratic Union
* DOXA Magazine
* Meduza
* Memorial
* Moscow Helsinki Group
* Yabloko
* Open Russia
* Oborona
* United Civil Front
* Russian People's Democratic Union
* Our Choice
* For Russia without Lawlessness and Corruption
* Democratic Choice
* 5th of December Party
* Pussy Riot
* IC3PEAK
* People's Freedom Party
* Vesna
* Western Choice
* Russia of the Future
* Novaya Gazeta
* Libertarian Party of Russia
* Feminist Anti-War Resistance

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Left-wing|

* Federation of Socialist Youth
* Labour Russia
* Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists
* Vanguard of Red Youth
* Socialist Resistance
* Revolutionary Workers' Party
* Russian Maoist Party
* Russian Social Democratic Union of Youth
* Russian Communist Workers' Party of the CPSU
* Autonomous Action
* Socialist League Vpered
* Pyotr Alexeyev Resistance Movement
* Left Front
* Left Socialist Action
* Russian Labour Front
* Russian Socialist Movement
* Socialist Alternative
* People's Self-Defense
* Left Bloc
* Marxist Tendency
* For a New Socialism
* Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists

Nationalist|

* Slavic Union
* Male State
* Movement Against Illegal Immigration
* National Russian Liberation Movement
* National Socialist Society
* Format18
* Decommunization
* Club of Angry Patriots
* Nation and Freedom Committee
* Northern Brotherhood
* People's Militia of Kvachkov
* National Democratic Alliance
* Russians
* Popular Resistance Association
* Ethnic National Union
* Society.Future
* National Socialism / White Power

Indigenous|

* Adat People's Movement
* Committee of Bashkir Resistance
* Free Buryatia Foundation
* Ingush Independence Committee
* Karelian National Movement
* Oirat-Kalmyk People's Congress
* Free Idel-Ural
* Ittifaq Party

Other|

* National Bolshevik Party
* National Bolshevik Front
* The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov
* Freedom Nation
* People's Will Army
* Society of Blue Buckets
* Union of Slavic Forces of Russia
* Artpodgotovka
* Party of the Dead
* Stop the Wagons
* National Republican Army
* Freedom of Russia Legion
* Russian Volunteer Corps
* Russian Insurgent Army

People|

| Liberal|

* Liya Akhedzhakova
* Boris Akunin
* Yevgenia Albats
* Georgy Alburov
* Nikolay Alexeyev
* Lyudmila Alexeyeva
* Maria Alyokhina
* Vladimir Ashurkov
* Darya Besedina
* Konstantin Borovoi
* Anastasia Bryukhanova
* Dmitry Bykov
* Lilia Chanysheva
* Evgeny Chichvarkin
* Yevgeniya Chirikova
* Ildar Dadin
* Roman Dobrokhotov
* Yury Dud
* Yekaterina Duntsova
* Tikhon Dzyadko
* Tamara Eidelman
* Mark Feygin
* Yulia Galyamina
* Masha Gessen
* Dmitry Glukhovsky
* Alexei Gorinov
* Dmitry Gudkov
* Gennady Gudkov
* Grigory Melkonyants
* Sergei Guriev
* Leonid Gozman
* Vladimir Kara-Murza
* Garry Kasparov
* Mikhail Kasyanov
* Maxim Katz
* Irina Khakamada
* Mikhail Khodorkovsky
* Alexander Kobrinsky
* Oleg Kuvaev
* Bogdan Litvin
* Marina Litvinovich
* Tair Mamedov
* Andrey Makarevich
* Vladimir Milov
* Sergey Mitrokhin
* Dmitry Muratov
* Boris Nadezhdin
* Lyudmila Narusova
* Alexei Navalny
* 2013 mayoral campaign
* 2018 presidential campaign
* poisoning
* death
* Yulia Navalnaya
* Boris Nemtsov
* assassination
* Alexander Nevzorov
* Valeriya Novodvorskaya
* Marina Ovsyannikova
* Sergey Parkhomenko
* Leonid Parfyonov
* Maria Pevchikh
* Andrey Piontkovsky
* Andrei Pivovarov
* Anna Politkovskaya
* assassination
* Ilya Ponomarev
* Lev Ponomaryov
* Mikhail Prokhorov
* Maxim Reznik
* Yevgeny Roizman
* Vladimir Ryzhkov
* Marina Salye
* Yuri Samodurov
* Yekaterina Samutsevich
* Kirill Serebrennikov
* Ekaterina Schulmann
* Karèn Shainyan
* Ruslan Shaveddinov
* Viktor Shenderovich
* Lev Shlosberg
* Yuri Shevchuk
* Natalya Sindeyeva
* Aleksandra Skochilenko
* Lyubov Sobol
* Nikolai Svanidze
* Dmitry Syenduk
* Nadya Tolokonnikova
* Ilya Varlamov
* Alexei Venediktov
* Pyotr Verzilov
* Boris Vishnevskiy
* Leonid Volkov
* Kira Yarmysh
* Ilya Yashin
* Grigory Yavlinsky
* Ivan Zhdanov
* Mikhail Zygar

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Left-wing|

* Viktor Anpilov
* Anastasia Baburova
* Alexander Batov
* Sergey Biets
* Nikolai Bondarenko
* Yuri Bykov
* Alexey Gaskarov
* Mikhail Gorbachev
* Boris Kagarlitsky
* Nikolay Kavkazsky
* Pavel Kudyukin
* Sergey Levchenko
* Mikhail Lobanov
* Stanislav Markelov
* Darya Mitina
* Nikolay Platoshkin
* Valery Rashkin
* Leonid Razvozzhayev
* Vladislav Ryazantsev
* Oleg Shenin
* Alexander Shubin
* Yevgeny Stupin
* Konstantin Syomin
* Sergei Udaltsov
* Anastasia Udaltsova
* Kirill Ukraintsev

Nationalist|

* Aleksandr Averin
* Vladimir Basmanov
* Alexander Belov-Potkin
* Dmitry Demushkin
* Andrei Dmitriev
* Dmitry Enteo
* Sergei Furgal
* Igor Girkin
* Oleg Kashin
* Denis Kapustin
* Vladimir Kvachkov
* Ilya Konstantinov
* Daniil Konstantinov
* Ilya Lazarenko
* Eduard Limonov
* Vyacheslav Maltsev
* Maxim Martsinkevich
* Maria Motuznaya
* Yury Mukhin
* Yevgeni Ponasenkov
* Vladislav Pozdnyakov
* Egor Prosvirnin
* Valery Solovei
* Mikhail Svetov
* Vladimir Tor
* Roman Yuneman

Films and books|

* Blowing Up Russia (2002)
* Putin's Russia (2004)
* The Revolution That Wasn't (2008)
* 12 Who Don't Agree (2009)
* Putin. Corruption (2011)
* Term (2014)
* Putin. War (2014)
* Chaika (2015)
* He Is Not Dimon to You (2017)
* Putin's Palace (2021)
* Navalny (2022)

Terms|

* Grandpa in his bunker
* Non-system opposition
* Party of crooks and thieves
* Putler
* Putin khuylo!
* Putin Must Go
* Russia will be free
* Smart Voting
* White-blue-white flag
* Zelyonka attack

Related|

* Alexander Gabyshev
* Masha Moskalyova case
* Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
* Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
* Russian emigration following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

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