In 2021, the Russian Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, who supports far-right movements, approached Trump with an unusual offer.
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The oligarch Malofeev convened a conference at which he announced that he had sent Trump a letter with a personal proposal to create a new media platform.
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After Trump's Twitter and FB accounts were blocked in 2021, Malofeev found himself in a similar situation as his channel "Tsargrad" was blocked on YouTube and Google.
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Malofeev's letter (23.042021) is addressed to "President Donald J. Trump". In the message, he addresses him as the current head of state and not as a former head of state.
The document was published in Russian and English on the Tsargrad platform.
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Malofeev suggested that Trump should cooperate in creating media platforms and pointed out that Russia has programmers and investment capital. In the letter, he also mentioned that the US election was stolen.
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October 28, 2022 Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk for 44 billion US dollars.
The new Twitter boss Elon Musk unblocked Trump's profile on November 20, 2022.
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What you need to know about the orthodox Russian oligarch:
Malofeev is an entrepreneur and represents an ultra-right-wing conservative position.
He began his career in investment banks and founded his investment fund Marshall Capital Partners in 2005, with which he earned billions.
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At the end of 2010, Malofeev founded the "Safe Internet League", a Russian organization that campaigns against internet censorship.
In 2024, the organization was placed on an EU sanctions list of 27 countries for supporting the Russian government, censorship and propaganda.
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In 2015, Malofeev founded his own TV channel "Tsargrad". He was supported by former Fox News director Jack Hanick.
"Tsargrad" spreads conspiracy theories and promotes far-right views and parties.
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Dugin, a propagandist and occult fascist, was appointed Director General of Tsargrad.
Dugin and Malofeev actively support far-right parties in the West with the help of an established platform and financial resources.
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In 2014, Malofeev became a financier of the "Russian Spring" and the Russian separatists. His former colleague A. Borodai became the first head of the self-proclaimed "DNR", and his security chief Igor Girkin (Strelkov) became defense minister of the "republic".
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At the head of all this clique, Malofeev was one of the first Russians to fall under EU and US sanctions.
Since 2022, Malofeev has continued to finance the war in Ukraine and described it as a "war against the West".
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In 2014, Malofeev founded the Russian neo-right-wing fundamental Christian think tank "Katehon" based in Moscow.
The task of this think tank is to coordinate the spread of propaganda, Eurasian imperialism and Dugin's neo-fascist ideas internationally.
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The "Katehon" website is primarily aimed at a Western audience, appears in several languages, promotes far-right parties and actively supports the war. The site was set up to spread conspiracy theories under the guise of a think tank.
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The Orthodox oligarch recently married Maria Lvova-Belova. She is known for the fact that an international criminal court issued an arrest warrant against her for abducting children from Ukraine. The same arrest warrant was also issued against Putin.
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Malofeev, who maintains close relations with Putin, is currently being financed by large Russian state-owned companies via Cypriot offshore companies.
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Malofeev Quotes:
"The decline of Europe has already begun"
"The collapse of the world will happen the American way"
"The monarchy in the modern world is a guarantor of stability"
"Putin was to be made emperor and Russia an empire"
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The American blogger Mario Naufal, Andrew Napolitano (former New Jersey Supreme Court judge) and Larry C. Johnson (former CIA analyst) visited Moscow in early March and met with Malofeev and Dugin.
In an interview with Naufal, Malofeev explained that Russia and the United States will determine what the post-war world order will look like.
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