In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, groups affiliated with neo-Nazis offer “lessons of courage” and “weekend classes” to orphans, troubled adolescents, and cadets. The Dobrovolets [Volunteer] Center and the North Slavic Community maintain close ties to the Russian neo-Nazi organization Rusich, as well as the Union of Donbass Volunteers, whose members have been involved in fighting in Ukraine since 2014 and have repeatedly called for the massacre of Ukrainian prisoners of war. For years, military training programs targeting children in St. Petersburg and the surrounding region have been organized with a focus on children from boarding schools, troubled adolescents, and cadets from various colleges. These training programs are led by mentors from the autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) Center for Special Patriotic and Sports Training Dobrovolets [Volunteer] and the North Slavic Community (NSC) (…) Dobrovolets is essentially part of the same structure as the North Slavic Community, which positions itself as a “Russian military-patriotic community of modern Cossacks” (how the “Cossacks” ended up in northern Russia, remains unexplained). Dobrovolets’s director, Alexei Savinsky, also known as “Yar,” is a supporter of the far-right Resistance movement, formed by people from DNI (Popular Initiatives Movement), skinheads, and members of the Slavic Union. The movement was founded by Savinsky’s friend, Roman Zentsov, who calls himself “Russian Molot” [Russian Jackhammer] and who has said in interview that Russia should be prepared for a war among races and nations. (…) Other friends of Savinsky and his movement are members of the neo-Nazi group Rusich, headed by open Hitler supporter, animal abuser and sadist Alexei Milchakov, who likes to take pictures with the severed heads of puppies and, after the war began in Ukraine, with the severed ears of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
via the insider: What denazification? How Governor Beglov helps Neo-Nazis teach Russian children to kill