Followers of Nazism are mainly organised within the skinhead scene which, together with the so-called hooligans, numbers about 70,000 in Russia. Music plays an important role in Russia. Bands like Kolovrat (Swastika) Posizija or T.N.F. (Terror National Front) whip up hatred with their songs and are role models for the scene whose styles hardly differ from those of nazi skinheads in the rest of Europe. Most of the racist attacks in Russia are carried out by nazi skinheads who are especially active in the big cities. It is significant that the make-up of the activist nazi skinhead scene has changed recently. From a subculture dominated by very young people in gang-type, undisciplined groupings with little continuity, they have begun to turn, one after another, into stable and organised units. To become older, to be in job training or to have found a regular job no longer automatically means that nazi skins leave the scene. Instead, many of them remain in their groupings and enrich them with their violent experiences. Worryingly, firearms and explosives are increasingly being used in attacks and no longer "just" knives, baseball bats or iron bars. Such weaponry not only requires money but also training, a fact that points to a growth in the level of organisation within the scene. As a result, the scale of violence has escalated. While there had been organised attacks on non-Russian market traders before, for instance, 13 people were killed and 53 were injured in a nazi bomb attack at a Moscow market in August 2006.
