A brochure put out by the pro-Kremlin youth group "Nashi" exposes the movement's rabidly paranoid worldview. The author of the brochure employs an extremely broad use of the word "fascist" to describe extremist nationalists, far-left opponents of the Kremlin's policies, and pro-Western liberals, characterizing all of them as part of an enormous conspiracy against Russia. What the brochure does not mention is that the same sponsors of "Nashi" in the Kremlin have in recent years entered into a de facto alliance with extremist nationalist groups, and that the nationalist demonstration pictured in the brochure was granted official sanction by the Moscow city authorities, who violently disrupted last month's peaceful opposition rally by Gary Kasparov's "Other Russia."

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