Supported by: National Endowment for Democracy

Project span: September 2016 – April 2017 

Cooperating institutions: Political Capital Institute (Hungary), project leading organization; Institute of Public Affairs (Poland), think-tank European Values (Czech Republic), Austrian Documentation Center (Austria).

Project team: Grigorij Mesežnikov (leader of the Slovak part of the project, researcher), Radovan Bránik (researcher). 

Objective: The aim of the international research project is to monitor, map and analyze the activities of the right-wing extremist and radical nationalist groupings characterized by a tendency to commit violence as well as paramilitary groupings and quasi-paramilitary organizations in the context of external influences and ties (including links to societal actors of various types in Russia).

Outputs: Case studies: 

• Austria: Russian connections of the Austrian Far-Right
• Czech Republic: The Russian connections of far-right and paramilitary organizations in the Czech Republic
• Hungary: “The Truth Today Is What Putin Says It Is” 
• Poland: Russian soft power in Poland - The Kremlin and pro-Russian organizations
• Slovakia: Hatred, violence and comprehensive military training - The violent radicalisation and Kremlin connections of Slovak paramilitary, extremist and neo-Nazi groups