Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archive photoMOSCOW, Apr 13Japan, having removed the Azov battalion, against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation, from the list of terrorist structures, has shown itself to be an accomplice of neo-Nazism and damages its own security, an official representative of the Foreign Ministry said Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. «The Japanese side withdrew from the national review of the situation in the field of international terrorism for 21 years the mention of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion» Azov «… Official Tokyo has openly shown itself to be an accomplice of neo-Nazism,» she said during a briefing. According to Zakharova, Japan , «whitewashing neo-Nazis… detrimental to their own security».
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