Russian Imperial Movement

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The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) is a Russian white supremacist political and militant organization. Founded in Saint Petersburg in 2002, it seeks the revival of the Russian Empire, which collapsed in 1917. The organization formed a paramilitary wing called the Imperial Legion in 2008 and has deployed troops to several conflict zones around the world, such as Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and the Central African Republic; RIM is particularly notorious for actively recruiting and training far-right Russians and like-minded Westerners to fight for Russian separatist forces in Ukraine from 2014 onward. Additionally, it has provided paramilitary training to other far-right or neo-Nazi organizations in Europe and North America. Owing to RIM's ideology and activities in Europe and beyond, it has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Within Russia, some RIM publications are blacklisted, but the organization itself operates freely and is believed...

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