#RussianImperialMovement
5 entries tagged RussianImperialMovement.
People (2)
- 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.
- 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.
Organizations (1)
- 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.
Events (2)
- 2017 Gothenburg Neo-Nazi Bombings A series of neo-Nazi bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2017, carried out by two Nordic Resistance Movement members who had received explosives training at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan camp in St. Petersburg, providing the factual basis for the U.S. State Department's 2020 white supremacist terrorist designation of RIM.
- 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.