New Revolutionary Alternative
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates The New Revolutionary Alternative (Template:Langx; NRA) was a Russian far-left terrorist organisation, allegedly active during the late 1990s.
History
During the late 1990s, several bombing attacks were carried out against the Federal Security Service (FSB) by far-left activists of the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP), who had become disillusioned with the post-Soviet government of Russia.Template:Sfn In 1998, RCWP member Alexander Biryukov carried out a bombing attack against the FSB.Template:Sfn In April 1999, four women affiliated with the RCWP carried out a bombing of the Lubyanka Building, the headquarters of the FSB in Moscow.Template:Sfn The latter bombing was allegedly carried out in protest against the carpet bombing of Grozny during the Second Chechen War.Template:Sfn Following these attacks, the FSB announced the existence of a new far-left terrorist organisation, the "New Revolutionary Alternative", which the FSB held responsible for the bombings.Template:Sfn In 2001, it was reported that NRA had also set off bombs in Moscow military offices (Ostankino in 1996 and Cheryomushkinsky in 1997).<ref name="remain in custody">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2003, Nadezhda Raks, Olga Nevskaya, Larisa Romanova, and Tatiana Nekhorosheva-Sokolova were found guilty of the bombings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Romanova's sentence was later commuted.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Alexander Biryukov was declared incompetent to stand trial and was sent to a psychiatric hospital.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Legacy
The New Revolutionary Alternative has since become associated with anarchism and has been listed alongside other anarchist terrorist groups of the late 20th century, such as the German 2 June Movement and the Italian Template:Ill.Template:Sfn The Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAK) has cited the NRA as an inspiration for its attacks against Russian rail infrastructure following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Template:Sfn
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