Belarusian Teenagers Taken To Russian Federation To Train With Neo-Nazi

According to the militarized organization Enot Corp., they have coordinated the last training with the Belarusian authorities of “upper than regional” level.

The report from yet another training, conducted by the Russian militarized organization Enot Corp.(Racoons), has been published in the internet. The video record shows teenagers wearing camouflage, masks and holding Lukashenka’s flag, Radio Liberty reports.

The exercise that the combatants themselves call “the military-patriotic game named after the Archistratigus Michael” took place on November 20 in the village of Byvalino near Moscow, with active support of the local Russian orthodox clergy. This time, two hundred young people from all over Russia came there, as well as a team from Donetsk and up to 30 Belarusian trainees – teenagers of 11-17 years old.

According to the organizers, the task of the exercise is not only to carry out the “patriotic education”, but also to teach the teenagers the tactics of conducting the real combat. “We use lasertag instead of real weapons, and all the other conditions are as close to combat ones as possible,” — the “raccoons” write on their website.

The game usually lasts for a day and a night with no breaks. The kids practice shooting skills, seizure of infrastructure objects, and prisoners snatch. Roman Telenkevich, also known as “Ved-Ava”, performs the function of the chief instructor. He is a combatant who not only fought in Donbass, but also disarmed other detachments of the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic”.

In the video, he addresses to the kids: “Don’t think you are here to idle and have a good time. You are here to get some knowledge and to implement it in practice later on.”

Another instructor Mikhail Kamaliatkin, Telenkevich’s comrade-in-arms at Enot Corp, also fought on the separatists’ side in 2014-2015. Kamaliatkin has confirmed the fact of the Belarusians’ presence at the exercise to the journalists.

“Some 25-30 people arrived, accompanied by several instructors from Belarus. Upon return, none of them complained about any problems with the KGB,” — the combatant has said.

The first information that Belarusian teenagers were taken to the Neo-Nazi to train was published in April 2016. The exercise then was held by joint efforts of Enot Corp. and the secret subversive group “Rusich”, headed by Nazi Alexey Milchakov. The event caused a great public resonance, and Belarusian kids didn’t go to the next training in July. However, in September the Belarusians found themselves in the “raccoons” camp again. However, this time they merged with the other teams and didn’t register officially. According to the organizers, this was done to avoid “outrage in their Homeland”.

This time, the team from Belarus even had a different camouflage. They wore white masks to cover their faces and had a big red-green flag. The faces of some adults in the video have been blurred (the combatants haven’t clarified the need for such cover-up).

Enot Corp. got the legal status quite recently — they are registered by the Russian Ministry of Justice as a public organization. It includes a youth wing “Mladoenoty” (Young Raccoons), which focuses on working with teenagers.

One of the organization’s leaders, combatant Anton Gorokhov, visited Minsk last autumn. He published his photo near the National Library with a capture “the Raccoons’ landing party in Belarus”. The journalists contacted Gorokhov asking what the purpose of his visit to Minsk was.

“We came to negotiate with the local authorities. We have certain commercial interest. We will not reveal the details as your authorities asked us not to,”— he has said. However, he added later that “the aim of the negotiations was to form a common program for preparing the youngsters for the army service”, and the level of the negotiations was “upper than regional”.