Every now and then they're back. With their sticks, dark clothes resembling their miserable minds and lives, metal pipes in their fists.
Every now and then they strike. In Italy (where a group of leftist people were beaten in a park after a concert) some weeks ago, now and again in Russia.

"Attack on nuclear demonstrators in Russia leaves 1 dead", was the International Herald Tribune title some days ago.

"Witnesses say the attackers shouted nationalist slogans as they rampaged through the forest tent camp near the city of Angarsk, about 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) east of Moscow. But police rejected suggestions that extremist groups had masterminded the attack."

Yes, just hooliganism and robbery. Just boys with nothing else to do.

Different opinion from one of the Activists, Andrei Kravchuk, who was there.
"'They shouted nationalist slogans, I don't know why — this is an environmental camp,' he said."

(link to IHT source for the previous quot. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/21/... )

"Russian environmentalist beaten to death" titled the Sydney Morning Herald on July 21, 2007.
"Russian media reported up to 15 people shouting fascist slogans attacked the environmentalists".
(Here's the link: http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Russian-e... )

And BBC, too, talks of reports of "'skinheads' wearing dark clothes", here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6912006....

Now, it is possible that neo-nazi extremists - at least the organized ones - do not have anything to do with this. They prefer beating for ethnic and gender reasons. And environmentalists never seemed to be their target.
Perhaps it was just staged - dark clothes and all, to let blame fall on them. But it seems clear it was organized. And one human being died.

It's possible. Then who organized this?

The incident makes a pair with the Gay Pride beating in Moscow.

From The Guardian:
"A group of gay rights activists came under attack from neo-Nazi thugs when they tried to present a petition asking Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, to lift a ban on a Gay Pride parade. He has previously dubbed gay rallies "satanic". Witnesses said riot police watched as far-right skinheads chanting "death to homosexuals" beat up several activists."

"The police failed to arrest the skinheads but detained several of the Europeans - including the German MP Volker Beck, a member of the Green party, and the radical Italian MEP Marco Capatto" (my bold), who asked the Policemen "why don't you protect us?"
It was reported last 28 May 2007. Here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0...

I myself watched on the Italian News a priest from the orthodox Church blessing the skinheads on the street during the attack.

Well, all in all I made myself an opinion. The ugly weed of Nazis seems to root well in Russia. And to grow even better.
Someone, there, may find it suitable. We've already seen this happen in Italy during the 60's and the 70's: "strategy of the tension", if it can be rightly translated. A tension with only two who gain from it: the government and the establishment.

Congratulations. And my sorrow for the activist killed in Siberia.
Apparently, aged 20.