Yaroslav Lebedev lives in St. Petersburg and is a researcher of contemporary far-right movements, neo-eurasionism and the monarchist underground in the former Soviet Union.
Right-wing radicals and neo-fascists have become more powerful in Russia over the past few years. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the new, aggressively anti-communist government of Boris Yeltsin overthrew the weak social-democratic government of Mikhail Gorbachev, and two right-wing Russian structures merged. The émigré anti-communists, who had been nurtured...