https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement
The Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen) is a Neo-Nazi group based in the Nordic countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, it has ties to both the Pro-Russian and Pro-Ukrainian sides of the Ukraine conflict.
The group has connections to Olena Semenyaka and the Azov Brigade, while 2 of its former members of the NRM later trained with the Russian Imperial Movement at their Partisan Centre before being arrested on terror charges on Sweden, leading to the RIM being declared a terrorist organisation1, the NRM itself was later declared a terrorist organisation in 2024.
The NMR also has links to the Ukrainian Azov Regiment: The far-right podcast “FashCast” published an interview between a member of the Finnish NMR and Olena Semenyaka, the so-called “First Lady” and spokeswoman of the far-right paramilitary volunteer battalion in Ukraine. In the interview, Semenyaka mentions a “foreign legion” in Ukraine that international volunteers could join, as well as military training camps at the Azov camp in eastern Ukraine. A delegation of the Finnish NMR visited the Azov Regiment in Kyiv in 2019.
That’s not to say, however, that the NMR as a whole is partisan in the Ukraine conflict: Two members of the Swedish NMR, who were responsible for the series of bombings in Gothenburg in 2016 and 2017 mentioned at the beginning of this article, participated in a training camp organised by the far-right paramilitary and pro-Russian Russian Imperial Movement in 2016 in eastern Ukraine, which fought against Ukrainian forces – including the Azov Regiment.
Jan Petrovsky, a Norwegian member of the NRM, was also the deputy commander of Rusich Group.
The Movement is also affiliated with other international far-right groups, such as Dritte Weg (Germany), CasaPound (Italy) and the Alliance - Alternative for Norway (Norway)
Internationally, the Nordic Resistance Movement is extremely well connected: According to the broadcaster Yle, between 2011 and 2017, around 20 members of the movement were users of the international neo-Nazi forum Iron March. Here, the NMR came into contact with neo-Nazi parties such as Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) in Greece and Casa Pound in Italy, but also with far-right terrorist groups such as the now-banned National Action in the United Kingdom.
In Germany, the neo-Nazi party Der III. Weg (The Third Way) is an important partner for the NMR. Members of the NMR have visited their far-right friends in Germany several times: At a demo of Der III. Weg in the Berlin district of Hohenschönhausen on October 3, 2020, Fredrik Vejdeland, a leading figure of the Swedish chapter, gave a speech in German. In Würzburg in 2017, NMR leader Simon Lindberg spoke at one of the party’s demonstrations.
The Alliance has formed a largely online neo-Nazi network, largely of teenagers who post memes and internet trolling with racist and antisemitic messages on platforms such as Discord.8 The party’s leader is known for a number of grossly anti-Semitic statements and has friendly contacts with the Nordic Resistance Movement.29