The Russian National Socialist Party (russian: Русская Национальная Социалистическая Партия, Russkaya Natsional'naya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya) was a neo-Nazi and

clerical fascist Clerical fascism (also clero-fascism or clerico-fascism) is an ideology that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with clericalism. The term has been used to describe organizations and movements that combine religious elements ...

group based in

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Development

The party grew out of the followers of Konstantin Kasimovsky, a leading member of

Pamyat The Pamyat Society (russian: Общество «Память», russian: Obshchestvo «Pamyat», ; English language, English translation: "''Memory''" Society), officially National Patriotic Front "Memory" (NPF "Memory"; russian: Национал� ...

in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the

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. He split from the Pamyat-led National Patriotic Front in 1992 and formed his own party, the Russian National Union, the following year. This party re-emerged as the RNSP around 1999 after Kasimovsky closed down the Russian National Union and began to move away from the emphasis placed on the

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by that group. Despite this lessening of emphasis on religion the party's website lists

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as one of its four main ideological principles, the others being a strong state, aggressive Russian

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and non- Marxist

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. The party symbol is the Labarum of

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and since 1999 have published a newspaper ''Pravoye Soprotivleniye'' ('Right Resistance'), itself a successor to the earlier journal ''Shturmovik''. Kasimovsky has since claimed to be the leader of a group called ''Russian Action'' although its nature, and that of its relationship to the RNSP, remains unclear.Raphael Walden, ''Racism and Human Rights'', Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004, p. 110

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Development

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