Stanford Quietly Removed Azov Battalion From Extremist Group List
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Earlier this month, the State Department lifted its ban on providing weapons to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion*. A month before, the Stanford Mapping Militants Project (MMP) quietly removed the group’s profile from its list of “violent militant or extremist organizations.”