TheRussian National Socialist Party (Russian:Русская Национальная Социалистическая Партия,romanized: Russkaya Natsional'naya Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya) was aneo-Nazi andclerical fascist group based inRussia.
The party grew out of the followers ofKonstantin Kasimovsky, a leading member ofPamyat in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of theSoviet Union. He split from the Pamyat-led National Patriotic Front in 1992 and formed his own party, theRussian National Union, the following year. This party re-emerged as the RNSP around 1999 after Kasimovsky closed down the Russian National Union and began to move away from the emphasis placed on theRussian Orthodox Church by that group.[1] Despite this lessening of emphasis on religion the party's website listsOrthodox Christianity as one of its four main ideological principles, the others being astrong state, aggressive Russiannationalism and non-Marxistsocialism.[2] The party symbol is theLabarum ofConstantine the Great and since 1999 have published a newspaperPravoye Soprotivleniye ('Right Resistance'), itself a successor to the earlier journalShturmovik.[2]
Kasimovsky has since claimed to be the leader of a group calledRussian Action although its nature, and that of its relationship to the RNSP, remains unclear.[3]
