4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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From Russia to Sweden and the United States, there’s a growing network of White nationalist groups that stretches around the world. The reporting team at Verified: The Next Threat investigates how these militant groups are helping each other create propaganda, recruit new members and share paramilitary skills.
We start with a group called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM. Its members are taking up arms in Russia’s war against Ukraine, which they say is a battle in a much larger “holy war” for White power. Newsy senior investigative reporter Mark Greenblatt interviews a leader of the group who says RIM’s goal is to unite White nationalists around the world. The group even runs training camps where White supremacists from around the world can learn paramilitary tactics.
Russia’s White nationalists are making connections with extremists in the United States. Greenblatt talks with a neo-Nazi named Matt Heimbach, who was a major promoter of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon after Charlottesville, Heimbach invited members of RIM to the U.S. and connected them to his network of American White power extremists.
We end with a visit by Greenblatt to the State Department in Washington, where he interviews two top counterterrorism officials. They say they’re aware of the growing international network of White supremacists, but explain that White power groups are now forming political parties, which makes it more difficult for the agency to use its most powerful counterterrorism tools.
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1:07.2 | The war in Ukraine is now in its six month. |
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1:14.6 | Russia's military continues its advance in Eastern Ukraine this weekend. |
1:18.6 | Russia's getting help on the battlefield from fighters who belong to a little known group |
1:23.0 | called the Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM. |
1:28.0 | RIM posted this video online a few weeks ago, |
1:31.3 | which they claim shows a special weapon being fired at Ukrainian positions. |
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