VLADIVOSTOK, Russia It is a muggy Wednesday afternoon in the nation's largest Pacific seaport, and as people meander home, a handful of men and boys position themselves around the central square, an asphalt plaza decorated with a monument to the communist revolutionaries who conquered the Far East.
The group's members wear black -- boots, jeans, shirts and berets -- everything except the armbands, which are red and white and decorated with a bladed swastika: a "Slavic swastika," they will tell you.
They begin distributing a newspaper called Our Fatherland, which leads with a story on Russian President Vladimir Putin's newly appointed regional representatives, who oversee the region's governors. Six of the seven are Jews, the paper states in a story headlined "The Shadow of Putin's Yid 'Menorah' Lies Upon Russia."