A disturbing insight into how the Chechen conflict has shaped Russian public opinion and resulted in an explosion of neo-Nazism in Russia. Many of Russia's new political parties are openly racist, with one politician even condoning the murder of non-ethnic Russians. "The government has been playing with the xenophobic attitudes of the population for such a long time that the situation has simply got out of control," says human rights worker Tatiana Lokshina. The leader of the People's National Party (NNP) Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky simply wants immediate disintegration.
—ABC Australia