Icons and Guns: Inside Russia’s Largest Far-Right Group

Icons and Guns: Inside Russia’s Largest Far-Right Group

In a suburban park in St. Petersburg on a sunny late-spring day, singers in traditional Russian costume perform for families as pop music blares in the background. Men in black are patrolling the scene, watching from the edges. Some are armed with pistols. Others wear bulletproof vests and patches bearing the Russian imperial flag or Orthodox icons. Most sport logos on their caps and T-shirts of the medieval Prince Alexander Nevsky. The logo is …