The United States imposed sanctions against two supporters of the "

Russian Imperial Movement" In 2020, the Russian Imperial Movement was recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States. Under sanctionshit Ukrainian Stanislav Shevchuk and Russian Alexander Zhuchkovsky US Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated two "key supporters" of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a nationalist organization designated as a terrorist organization in the United States, on its sanctions list, according to the agency's website.

We are talking about the Ukrainian Stanislav Shevchuk, whom the Ministry of Finance calls the "representative of the RID in Europe", the Russian Alexander Zhuchkovsky (on his page on the VKontakte social network he was involved in fundraising and recruiting for the RID), as well as the citizen of Sweden Anton Tulin (previously served time for involvement in the preparations for the terrorist attacks in Sweden in 2017). Their assets in the United States will be blocked, and any transactions related to those who fell under the sanctions will be prohibited.

According to U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Brian E. Nelson, who oversees financial intelligence and combating terrorist financing, the Russian Imperial Movement used the international financial system to create a global network that encourages extremist views and undermines democratic processes. The organization and its supporters are supporting military action in Ukraine through fundraising, he said.

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Shevchuk, according to the US authorities, came to the US in 2017 "in order to establish links between the RID and far-right extremist and nationalist groups." He also participated in rallies in Europe on behalf of the Russian Imperial Movement.

Zhuchkovsky, according to the Ministry of Finance, has collected more than 200 million rubles since 2014. for the purchase of weapons and military equipment for the RIM and “other pro-Russian militants in the Donbass”, and also facilitated the dispatch of RIM members there. After the start of the Russian military operation, he continued to do this, the authorities indicated.

In April 2020, the US State Department listed the Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization, where Washington has so far included only Islamic extremists.

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The RIM positions itself as a Russian Orthodox national-patriotic and monarchist organization, its main tasks are the protection of traditional Russian values, support for political, spiritual and cultural Russian expansion, the fight against Russophobia, illegal immigration, church heresies and schisms, as well as the active promotion of Russian Christian nationalism .

The unified federal list of organizations recognized as terrorist in RUSSIA does not include the Russian Imperial Movement. However, the organization's website and several issues of its printed edition are included by the Ministry of Justice in the federal list of extremist materials.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on Washington’s actions, said that the American side did not provide “any intelligible and detailed information on the rationale for its decision, so it seems that “it was designed primarily for an external propaganda effect and has little in common with the real task of jointly fighting international terrorism.” The State Department, in response, expressed disappointment that Moscow was "shielding" terrorists from the Russian Imperial Movement.