- Semyon Tokmakov
Semyon Valeryevich Tokmakov ( _ru. Семён Валерьевич Токмаков born
26 July 1975 inRybinsk ,Russia ) [http://www.panorama.ru/info/sprav157.html] is a figure in the Russian nationalist movement. Tokmakov was a leader of the skinhead organizationRussian Goal . He achieved notoriety in 1998 when he and other skinheads attacked William Jefferson, a blackUnited States Marine embassy guard in Moscow. Semyonov was arrested for the attack, spending a year and a half in prison. [ AP, Moscow [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/06/10/2003174547 Skinheads fight their 'holy war' ] "Taipei Times". 10 Jun 2004.]As of 2004, Tokmakov was referenced as the "youth leader" for Russia's
People's National Party . [ [http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/031204Bigotry.shtml Bigotry Monitor] ] "UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union". 12 Mar 2004.]The anti-fascist Russian website "Freedom-online.narod.ru" claims that Tokmakov was born in the city of
Rybinsk in 1978, and worked as a security guard and bank protector there. [Yevgeniy Karamian, Marina Velikanova, Stanislav Skoblo, Oleg Fotchkin, Maksim Pulemetov, Yulia Grishina, Dmitriy Kafanov. [http://freedom- online.narod.ru/Tsaritsino.htm Pogrom on Tsaritsino food market. Nothing Unusual. Just Regular Fascism. ] "Freedom" (Moscow). 2001.]Media quotes from Tokmakov
*"Why have they all come here? They bring nothing but drugs and AIDS. Every day they harass and steal our women." [ AP, Moscow [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/06/10/2003174547 Skinheads fight their 'holy war' ] "Taipei Times". 10 Jun 2004.]
*"When you kill cockroaches, you don't feel sorry for them, do you?" [ AP, Moscow [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/06/10/2003174547 Skinheads fight their 'holy war' ] "Taipei Times". 10 Jun 2004.]
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* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=21 The Wandering Jew-Hater] "Southern Poverty Law Center.
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