New Revolutionary Alternative
The New Revolutionary Alternative was a Russian far-left terrorist organisation, allegedly active during the late 1990s.
History
During the late 1990s, several bombing attacks were carried out against the Federal Security Service by far-left activists of the Russian Communist Workers Party, who had become disillusioned with the post-Soviet government of Russia. In 1998, RCWP member Alexander Biryukov carried out a bombing attack against the FSB. In April 1999, four women affiliated with the RCWP carried out a bombing of the Lubyanka Building, the headquarters of the FSB in Moscow. The latter bombing was allegedly carried out in protest against the carpet bombing of Grozny during the Second Chechen War. Following these attacks, the FSB announced the existence of a new far-left terrorist organisation, the "New Revolutionary Alternative", which the FSB held responsible for the bombings. In 2001, it was reported that NRA had also set off bombs in Moscow military offices.In 2003, Nadezhda Raks, Olga Nevskaya, Larisa Romanova, and Tatiana Nekhorosheva-Sokolova were found guilty of the bombings. Romanova's sentence was later commuted. Alexander Biryukov was declared incompetent to stand trial and was sent to a psychiatric hospital.