Refusing to Express support for the Russian resolution on combating glorification of Nazism, USA refer to the freedom of speech, but this excuse does not stand up opponents, said the Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on problems of human rights, democracy And rule of law Konstantin Dolgov. "The US is one of 4 countries, except Ukraine, Canada And Palau, who voted against the insertion of Russia's draft decision of the UN General Assembly on combating the glorification of Nazism," he said.- We will continue the promotion of this proposal ". According to Dolgov, Washington, voting against the project, specifies as the source of the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech." This excuse does not stand up opponents ", - noted the diplomat, quoted by the news Agency. "in the U.S. there are about a thousand extremist groups, specifically - 939. And that the USA is a country that aspires to become the Outpost of democracy in the world. Among these groups - the "National socialist movement" (LMI). Nothing like? Hereinafter " Aryan nation ", " White Aryan resistance ", " the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ", - emphasized he." Their activities are not prohibited by legislative act, And they continue their activities, continue to brainwash and Among them young people, creating potential hazards in the U.S. And abroad ", - noted Debts. As highlighted in the report of the Foreign Ministry "neo-Nazism" with the threat to human rights, democracy And the rule of law ", LMI currently is the largest neo-Nazi organization in the U.S., has more than 60 offices in 35 States." Extremist groups use the fact that According to the current legislation And law enforcement practice, the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech And Assembly are distributed in the U.S. on neo-fascist And neo-Nazi organization. Allowed the expression of racist, anti-Semitic And other radical views, " reads the document. Data American Jewish NGO " anti-defamation League ", according to which about 9% of U.S. citizens (21 million people) hold anti-Semitic views." in the United States no laws prohibiting Holocaust denial ", - stated in the report." After the terrorist attacks of September eleven 2001 in the USA frequent manifestations of Islamophobia. Adherents of Islam are no more than 1% of the US population, but committed against them by 13, 7% of all crimes on religious grounds ", - the document says. Mentioned also leaked to the American press Box completion of the "cold war" information " about the practice of involving the U.S. secret services of former Nazis in the form of informants on the situation in the Soviet Union, red Army, its organization, equipment And tactics of warfare ". At the end of December 2014, the Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations on social And humanitarian issues was presented by the Russian resolution, urging more effective in combating glorification of Nazism and other forms of racial discrimination, xenophobia And intolerance. Explaining the decision of the U.S. delegation, which had voted against the decision, Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov said that Washington did it for political reasons.