Feb. 02, 1999, Russia Today

Summary

On Sunday, Aleksander Barkashov's fascist Russian National Unity (RNE) party marched in Moscow's suburbs, testing the ability of federal and city authorities to oppose such demonstrations, the daily reported.

After Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov banned the movement from holding a meeting in Moscow in the fall, Barkashov vowed revenge. This came on Sunday, in the form of 200 young men marching through the streets of the capital wearing uniforms with swastikas. Law enforcement bodies proved powerless before this provocation. Luzhkov was the only politician who offered a sharp reaction to the march.

The daily wrote that no statements or orders of highest state officials can force the police to combat manifestations of Nazism. And the Moscow city police is not an exception. the author noticed that Barkashov's companions have many supporters among the police, who share their anti-Semite moods.