HATE GROUPS IN RUSSIAN INTERNET: AREAS OF INTERNET DISTRIBUTION AND TYPOLOGY
The authors believe that their article is relevant because it explores new forms of non-political radical ideas on the Russian internet. The subject of the research is the main manifestations of non-political activity of a destructive orientation. Its purpose is to classify and determine the degree of social harmfulness of this activity. The authors applied techniques of both empirical and theoretical analysis. First, they developed a set of criteria for identifying non-political radical Internet communities. They then conducted an Internet search for such communities using general and special search programs and a corresponding thesaurus.As a result, they received a large array of empirical information, which they then ordered and conceptualized according to previously developed criteria. They believe that new in their research is the development of criteria and classification of scantily explored forms of non-political radicalism in the Russian Internet. As a result, they developed a categorical criterion apparatus for identifying Internet communities that can be classified as “hate groups”. Then they identified the addresses of their Internet distribution. And finally, they determined the scale of social harmfulness of such communities. They hope that the materials of the article may be of interest to social scientists and governmental managers, as well as specialists in security problems.