Intl conference on neo-fascism in Europe to be held in St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG,. March 30 (Interfax) - An international conference, "Neo-Fascism in Europe: 70 Years After," is opening in St. Petersburg on Sunday, the local committee for the press and mass media informed Interfax.
"The conference is being held against the backdrop of an outbreak of radical and neo-fascist activities in European countries, accompanied by violence and crime. This trend has made itself felt in countries which participated in World War II and were hit the worst by fascism," it said in a press release.
The event will bring together representatives of public organizations from more than 20 countries, as well as statesmen, youth leaders and experts from Russia, and from countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and European Union. Before the opening ceremony, the participants will visit the city's Piskaryovskoye Cemetery and lay wreaths to the Motherland memorial.
The conference aims to work out ways of preventing the revival of Nazism and fascism in all their manifestations, the organizers said.
The idea of holding the conference was initiated by the Center of National Glory Foundation and by the European Jewish Congress with assistance from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Global Economy and International Relations, the Foundation of St. Andrew the First Called, and the Youth Time organization.
