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'''The Saviour''' ({{lang-ru|Спас}}, also translated as '''Salvation''' or '''The Redeemer''') was a militant [[nationalist]] organization which claimed credit for the August [[2006 Moscow market bombing]]. Media reports indicate that the market, located near [[Cherkizovsky]], was targeted due to its high volume of [[Central Asia]]n and [[Caucasus|Caucasian]] clientele.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CE01B4F-F6C4-4769-9CF0-1CE5C47ADDF0.htm|title=Russian court jails market bombers|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=15 May 2008}}</ref>


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Four members of The Saviour were sentenced to life imprisonment, while four others received lesser prison terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/24782|title=Racist bombers sentenced to life for market blast|publisher=Russia Today}}</ref>
'''The Saviour''' ({{langx|ru|Спас}}, also translated as '''Salvation''' or '''The Redeemer''') was a militant [[nationalist]] organization which claimed credit for the August [[2006 Moscow market bombing]]. Media reports indicate that the market, located near [[Cherkizovsky]], was targeted due to its high volume of [[Central Asia]]n and [[Caucasus|Caucasian]] clientele.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CE01B4F-F6C4-4769-9CF0-1CE5C47ADDF0.htm|title=Russian court jails market bombers|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=15 May 2008}}</ref><ref>Marcel Van Herpen ''Putinism: The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia'' 2013 "On August 21, 2006, members of The Savior, a neo-Nazi group led by Nikolai Korolev, a former FSB officer, bombed the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, the largest market of Russia, frequented by many merchants from Central Asia."</ref>

Four members of The Saviour were sentenced to life imprisonment, while four others received lesser prison terms.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

== See also ==
*[[Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists]]
* [[Combat Terrorist Organization]]
* [[National Socialism / White Power|NS/WP Crew]]
* [[National Socialist Society]]
* [[Primorsky Partisans]]


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 23:53, 12 December 2024

The Saviour (Russian: Спас, also translated as Salvation or The Redeemer) was a militant nationalist organization which claimed credit for the August 2006 Moscow market bombing. Media reports indicate that the market, located near Cherkizovsky, was targeted due to its high volume of Central Asian and Caucasian clientele.[1][2]

Four members of The Saviour were sentenced to life imprisonment, while four others received lesser prison terms.[citation needed]

See also

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  1. ^ "Russian court jails market bombers". Al Jazeera. 15 May 2008.
  2. ^ Marcel Van Herpen Putinism: The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia 2013 "On August 21, 2006, members of The Savior, a neo-Nazi group led by Nikolai Korolev, a former FSB officer, bombed the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, the largest market of Russia, frequented by many merchants from Central Asia."