A group of Russian neo-fascists claim to have found the solution to Russia's economic woes: Next time your child reaches for a Snickers or a Twix, give him a slap on the wrist!


With slogans like these on posters plastered across the city and in some Russian provincial towns, the National-Bolshevik Party is calling on Russia's youth to boycott imported goods and produce.


"Support Russian producers! Buy only Russian goods! Rubles - Yes! Dollars - No!" the signs read.


The boycott, reminiscent of the "Buy American" campaign that has been waged across the United States for decades, comes at a time when nationalism is on the rise and many Russian goods and produce are losing the competition with imports.


But its organizers say their action is largely symbolic, aimed at drawing attention to their revolutionary cause.


"The boycott is the first step," said Yegor Letov, lead singer in a rowdy band called Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) and one of the campaign organizers. "Our task is a lot bigger. We plan to create a revolution."


"Yankees out of Russia! Foreign crooks out of Russia!" read the posters, produced by Letov and Eduard Limonov, who made fame as a bisexual emigre writer in New York.


The poster's emblem is a black hammer and sickle on a white circle in a red field, reminiscent of the Nazi flag.


"That's right," muttered one elderly man who read the poster. "Russia for the Russians."


But another pensioner, pointing at the brand new hard currency supermarket across the street, asked: "Who will take part in the boycott? How? There are no Russian goods."


Alexander Dugin, a neo-fascist journalist who helped organize the boycott campaign, said Russia's market should return to Soviet-era economic self-sufficiency.


Dugin said he did not expect the campaign to have any major effect on Russian shopping habits, in the absence of sufficient supplies of Russian alternatives.


Although Dugin insisted he smoked only Russian cigarettes, a pack of imports lay on his table, next to a can of Brazilian coffee. Limonov spends much of his time in Paris.