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Finally, I turn to the Russian Imperial Movement. The Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM, as I will now call it, is a white supremacist nationalist organisation that seeks to create a new Russian imperial state. The methods that RIM is using to try to achieve those aims threaten UK, Euro-Atlantic and wider international security and prosperity. RIM conducts combat activity via its paramilitary unit, the Russian Imperial Legion, which has fought alongside Russian forces and other pro-Russian right-wing extremist groups in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. In doing so, the Government assess that it has committed or participated in acts of terrorism. RIL, as I will now call it, is likely using serious violence and property damage to intimidate Ukrainian opponents into ceding territory to a Russian state, furthering the Russian Imperial Movement’s aims.