The following is a list of organizations found by Russian courts to be extremist over the period between 2002 and 2007. This is not an official list; it is based on the findings of our Center's monitoring.
This list was compiled at the end of March 2008. Updated version is available in Russian only.
1. Organizations found by the Russian Supreme Court to be terrorist since 14 February 2003
All these organizations are also considered extremist.
1. High Military Council Majlisul Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of the Caucasus [Vysshii voennyi Madzhlisul' Shura Obedinennykh sil modzhakhedov Kavkaza]
2. Ichkeriia and Dagestan People's Congress [Kongress narodov Ichkerii i Dagestana]
3. The Base (al-Qaida) [Baza (Al'-Kaida)]
4. Asbat al-Ansar
5. Holy War (al-Jihad, or Egyptian Islamic Jihad) [Sviashchennaia voina (Al'-Dzhikhad ili Egipetskii islamskii dzhikhad)]
6. Islamic Group (al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya) [Islamskaia gruppa (Al'-Gamaa al'-Islamiia)]
7. Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) [Brat'ia-musul'mane (Al'-Ikhvan al'-Muslimun)]
8. Party of Islamic Liberation (Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami) [Partiia islamskogo osvobozhdeniia (Khizb ut-Takhrir al'-Islami)]
9. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba [Lashkar-I-Taiba]
10. Islamic Group (Jamaat-e-Islami) [Islamskaia gruppa (Dzhamaat-i-Islami)]
11. Taliban Movement [Dvizhenie Taliban]
12. Islamic Party of Turkistan (formerly Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) [Islamskaia partiia Turkestana (byvshee Islamskoe dvizhenie Uzbekistana)]
13. Society of Social Reforms (Jamiat al-Islah al-Ijtimai) [Obshchestvo sotsial'nykh reform (Dzhamiiat al'-Islakh al'-Idzhtimai)]
14. Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (Jamiat Ihya at-Turaz al-Islami) [Obshchestvo vozrozhdeniia islamskogo naslediia (Dzhamiiat Ikh'ia at-Turaz al'-Islami)]
15. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (The House of Two Holy Places) [Dom dvukh sviatyn' (Al'-Kharamein)]
16. Islamic Jihad - Jamaat Mojahedin [Islamskii dzhikhad - Dzhamaat modzhakhedov]
17. Jund ash-Sham [Dzhund ash-Sham].
2. Other organizations found by Russian courts to be extremist in accordance with the Law on Combating Extremist Activity
1. Russian National Unity (Russkoe natsional'noe edinstvo, RNE) regional chapter in Omsk.
Found extremist by Omsk Oblast Court on 10 October 2002.
2. The Asgard Slavic Community of the Belovod'e Asgard Ves' Spiritual Department, Old-Russian Ingling Church of Orthodox Old Believer-Inglings [Asgardskaia Slavianskaia Obshchina Dukhovnogo Upravleniia Asgardskoi Vesi Belovod'ia Drevnerusskoi Ingliisticheskoi tserkvi Pravoslavnykh Staroverov-Inglingov].
Found extremist by Omsk Oblast Court on 30 April 2004.
3. The Kapische Vedy Perun Slavic Community of the Belovod'e Asgard Ves' Spiritual Department, Old-Russian Ingling Church of Orthodox Old Believer-Inglings [Slavianskaia Obshchina Kapishcha Vedy Peruna Dukhovnogo Upravleniia Asgardskoi Vesi Belovod'ia Drevnerusskoi Ingliisticheskoi tserkvi Pravoslavnykh Staroverov-Inglingov].
Found extremist by Omsk Oblast Court on 30 April 2004.
4. The Men's Spiritual Seminary - Institution of Professional Religious Education, Old-Russian Ingling Church of Orthodox Old Believer-Inglings [Muzhskaia Dukhovnaia Seminariia Dukhovnoe Uchrezhdenie professional'nogo religioznogo obrazovaniia Drevnerusskoi Ingliisticheskoi Tserkvi Pravoslavnykh Staroverov-Inglingov].
Found extremist by Omsk Oblast Court on 30 April 2004.
5. RNE regional chapter in Tatarstan.
Found extremist by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan on 21 May 2003 (effective as of 5 June 2003).
6. The Kuban Council of the Spiritual Ancestral Russian Empire Rus` (Krasnodar Krai chapter of the Spiritual Ancestral Russian Empire Rus` organization) [Rada zemli Kubanskoi Dukhovno-Rodovoi Derzhavy Rus' (Krasnodarskoe kraevoe otdelenie organizatsii :Dukhovno-rodovaia derzhava Rus';)]
Found extremist by Pervomaiskii District Court of Krasnodar on 27 April 2006 (effective as of 16 May 2006).
7. The Krasnodar Orthodox Slavic Community VEC RA (Vedic Culture of Russian Aryans) of Scythian Ves` Rasseniia [Krasnodarskaia Pravoslavnaia Slavianskaia Obshchina :VEC RA; (Vedicheskoi Kul'tury Rossiiskikh Ariev) Skifskoi Vesi Rassenii].
Found extremist by Krasnodar Krai Court on 5 October 2006.
8. The National Bolshevik Party [Natsional-bol'shevistskaia partiia].
Found extremist by Moscow City Court on 19 April 2007 (effective as of 7 August 2007).
3. Organizations liquidated before the Law on Combating Extremist Activity, but included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of extremist and terrorist organizations
1. RNE regional chapter in Primor'e.
Banned by Primorskii Krai Court on 21 October 1999, in accordance with article 16 of the Federal Law on Civil Society Associations (prohibition of establishment and activity of non-governmental associations, whose goals or activities involve a forcible change of the foundations of the constitutional system and the violation of the integrity of the Russian Federation; undermining state security; establishment of armed units; incitement to ethnic, racial or religious hatred).
2. Slavic World NGO in Kuzbass [Slavianskii mir].
Liquidated by Kemerovo Oblast Court on 27 November 2001 pursuant to article 43 of the Federal Law on Civil Society Associations (failure by a non-governmental association to correct violations of the law within the established time frame). However, we do not know what violations were committed by the organization and whether they involved actual xenophobic activities or mere non-compliance with formalities.
