The author: Galina Kozhevnikova, Cand. Sc. (i.e. Ph. D.), graduated in history from the Russian State Humanities University of Moscow in 1997. She joined the "Panorama" Center for Information and Research in 1995, and has been Deputy Director of the SOVA Center since 2002. She is the author of Yazyk vrazhdy v predvybornoi agitatsii i vne ee (SOVA 2002) and Radikal'nyi natsionalizm v Rossii i protivodeistvie emu (ibidem-Verlag 2007), co-author of Rossiiskaya vlast' v biografiyakh, 3 vols. (ibidem-Verlag 2007) as well as co-editor of Etnicheskaya i religioznaya intolerantnost' v rossiiskikh SMI (ibidem-Verlag 2005). She has also contributed numerous articles to various journals and other publications.The collaborators: Alexander Verkhovsky is Director of Moscow's SOVA Center for Information and Analysis and the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles.Dr. Eugene Veklerov is a University of California mathematician and author of, among others, two computer science books.The author of the foreword: Dr. Stephen D. Shenfield is the author of, among numerous other publications, Russian Fascism (M.E. Sharpe 2001), and editor of the Research and Analytical Supplement to Johnson's Russia List.