#Russia
20 entries tagged Russia.
People (8)
- Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh was an Olympia, Washington Atomwaffen Division member who traveled with AWD leader Kaleb Cole to St. Petersburg in 2018 to receive paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement, pled guilty to firearms charges in 2020, and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
- Alisher Mukhitdinov Alisher Mukhitdinov, operating under the alias 'Alexander Slavros,' founded and administered Iron March from 2011 to 2017; his identification rests on a WHOIS record linking his personal site to a Moscow address, corroborated by BBC Russia's physical investigation in January 2020.
- Andrei Soshnikov Andrei Soshnikov is a Russian investigative journalist who exposed the St. Petersburg Internet Research Agency troll factory while at Moy Rayon and later at BBC News Russian, and authored the definitive January 2020 investigation identifying Iron March founder Alisher Mukhitdinov.
- Elon Musk Elon Musk is a South African-born American billionaire who cofounded PayPal, founded SpaceX and Tesla, acquired X (Twitter), is a PayPal Mafia principal and 2026 Dialog retreat registrant, attended the 2015 Epstein dinner, and has been in documented regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022 while running the Starlink satellite network operationally significant to the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Igor Kurganov Igor Kurganov is a Russian-born former professional poker player who gained operational influence over Elon Musk's charitable giving during the COVID-19 pandemic, slept in Musk's Austin home, and was the subject of FBI preliminary inquiries into foreign interference before being removed from Musk's inner circle by wealth manager Jared Birchall in May 2022.
- Jonathan Buma Johnathan Buma is a former FBI special agent who specialized in Russian counterintelligence at the Los Angeles field office, who handled Peter Thiel as a confidential human source from summer 2021, who originated the FBI's first Hunter Biden tax inquiry in January 2019, who worked the Giuliani-Ukraine investigation, who publicly accused the FBI of pro-Trump political bias, and who was arrested at JFK on March 17, 2025 and charged with unlawfully disclosing confidential records.
- Kaleb Cole Kaleb Cole was a Washington state-based Atomwaffen Division leader who received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg in 2018, ran a coordinated intimidation campaign against journalists and activists, and was convicted of civil rights conspiracy and sentenced to 84 months in federal prison.
- Rinaldo Nazzaro Rinaldo Nazzaro, alias 'Norman Spear,' is an American intelligence contractor who founded The Base neo-Nazi paramilitary network in 2018 while directing operations from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he holds dual citizenship and remains uncharged as of 2026 despite active FBI investigation.
Organizations (7)
- Atomwaffen Division Atomwaffen Division was an American neo-Nazi paramilitary network founded by Brandon Russell in 2015, linked to multiple murders and terrorism plots, that received paramilitary training from the Russian Imperial Movement in St. Petersburg, and dissolved through federal prosecutions after 2020.
- Iron March Iron March was a Russian neo-fascist web forum founded by Alisher Mukhitdinov in 2011 that served as the primary incubator for Atomwaffen Division and several other neo-Nazi organizations until its closure in 2017, after which a 2019 database leak exposed 1,207 user accounts and enabled identification of military personnel, law enforcement employees, and organizational moderators across multiple countries.
- Misanthropic Division Misanthropic Division is a transnational neo-Nazi organization founded in Belarus in 2013 by Dmitry Pavlov, declared extremist by Russia in 2015, with documented cells in 19 countries and connections to Ukraine's Azov Battalion and the broader accelerationist network.
- Russian Imperial Movement Russian Imperial Movement is a St. Petersburg-based ultranationalist paramilitary organization, designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department in April 2020, that operated the Partizan training camp and provided weapons and explosives training to Western neo-Nazis including members of Atomwaffen Division.
- Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church's Nuncio in Jerusalem served as the quasi-official KGB representative in Israel, routing all KGB contacts with Israeli intelligence following the 1967 Israeli-Soviet diplomatic break.
- The Base The Base is a neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary network founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro, designated a terrorist organization by Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU, whose members received over 100 combined years of prison sentences before the group rebuilt as an internationally operating cell network by 2025.
- White Phoenix White Phoenix is the Ukrainian operational cell of The Base neo-Nazi network that claimed responsibility for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv in July 2025 and has conducted graffiti operations and offered cash bounties for attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure aligned with Russian military objectives.
Events (3)
- 2025 Kyiv SBU Assassination The July 10, 2025 killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv was claimed by The Base's Ukrainian cell White Phoenix and separately attributed by Ukrainian authorities to FSB-directed Russian operatives, leaving unresolved whether the two attributions describe a single coordinated operation or competing claims.
- NLRB Data Exfiltration The NLRB data exfiltration was a 2025 incident in which Department of Government Efficiency engineers accessed National Labor Relations Board systems and exfiltrated large volumes of sensitive data on union organizing and labor complaints, followed by multiple blocked login attempts from a Russian IP address, disclosed by NLRB cybersecurity whistleblower Daniel Berulis in April 2025.
- U.S. Government Designations of Accelerationist-Russia Nexus U.S. government formal actions identifying the Russian state-adjacent accelerationist nexus span 2020-2025 and include the State Department's first-ever white supremacist SDGT designation (Russian Imperial Movement, April 2020), ODNI's 2021 DVE assessment acknowledging transnational white supremacist connections, and the 2025 FTO debate over The Base.
Places (2)
- Moscow Moscow is the capital of Russia and was the capital of the Soviet Union; as the seat of the KGB (and its successors) and the Communist Party Central Committee throughout the Cold War, it is the ultimate target or origin point for the majority of the intelligence operations documented in this vault.
- Russia Russia is the successor state to the Soviet Union and home to the KGB's successor agencies (FSB, SVR, GRU); it appears in this vault primarily as the origin of the Cold War intelligence apparatus that generated the American intelligence programs, parapsychology research, and covert operations documented throughout.