Alexander Verkhovsky

Alexander Verkhovsky, a leading authority on ultra-nationalism in Russia, runs the prominent Moscow-based SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis. The main areas of SOVA’s work include nationalism and xenophobia, political extremism, religious politics and the abuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia today.

The Nationalists and the Protest Movement

The Russian opposition movement is of necessity a broad coalition, with little to hold it together but a common hatred of the Putin regime. Alexander Verkhovsky looks at how its most controversial element, the nationalists, fit into the picture.

By Alexander Verkhovsky

/ 21 Aug 2012