In the uproar following the violence in Charlottesville earlier this month, one of America's leading neo-Nazi websites, The Daily Stormer, was all but chased off the internet, thwarted even by Russian authorities within hours of its attempt to register a new .ru domain.But Moscow's swift move came with a striking irony: American and European right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have in recent years flocked to Russia's biggest social network site, VK.
VK, Russia's most-trafficked website, has emerged as a social media hub for high-profile American far-right groups like the National Socialist Movement—which the Southern Poverty Law Center has called "notable for its violent anti-Jewish rhetoric"—despite the fact that pro-Nazi propaganda is illegal in Russia.
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