The Kyiv Independent recently published an article based on our investigation into the @RWApodcast hosts, who we identified as Kirill Ilyich Kamenetsky and Eldar Faridovich Orlov (Yamaltdinov).
They are responsible for moronic disinformation, vile genocidal rhetoric, war crime denial, white and Christian nationalist ideology and chickenhawk support for Russia’s war. Let's look at why these sophistry merchants peddle their hateful brand of pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
The RWA boys are made up of Kirill, who was raised and lived in Germany til 2025 and uses the pseudonymous surname 'Kaminets', and Eldar, who goes by his maternal grandfather's name ‘Nikolai’, and uses his mother's surname 'Orlov', presumably to hide his paternal Turkic heritage.
Kirill and Eldar divide opinion in Russian nationalist circles, with some referring to Kirill as a “dildo catching Armenian Gypsy dwarf”, and complaining about his accent, and Eldar as someone “with no views at all” who followed a bunch of racists online because he was lonely.
The RuNat split seems to originate with Kirill leaving far-right publication 'Sputnik i Pogrom', sabotaging it as he left to start his own publication, Vendée. This appears to be little more than a vessel for Kirill to complain about being called sexist, racist, homophobic etc.
Kirill's writing in Vendée is some of his worst, with faux intellectualism giving way to impotent hate.
After underachieving at school he was forced to read more, but this didn't give him the ability to think for himself, rather just to regurgitate the ideas of others.
He claims this lead to him becoming inspired by the White movement of the Russian Civil War, but he seems to be mostly interested in the former Whites who actually fought for the Nazis during World War 2.
This hypocrite will still compare all Ukrainians to Bandera though.
Perhaps Kirill thought adopting Nazism would help him fit in with the far right in Germany, where he was seen as not being "Aryan" enough to participate in a German fencing society - already known for it's anti-Semitism - at university in Heidelberg.
It seems Kirill proved his worthiness somehow, and ended up leading the society, before it was shut down due to it's members attacking students with Jewish heritage that is.
There is a strange sort of irony here, as we traced Kirill's family tree back to multiple names that are uncommon in Russia outside of Jewish families, such as Abram and Samuel, suggesting that Kirill himself likely has Jewish heritage.
And yet he seems such a proud Nazi.
Kirill's old TG account reveals he thinks people should not associate with "half-breeds", "half humans" and "Churks" - a broad insult for Asian, including Turkic, peoples.
Perhaps he doesn't know these insults seem to apply to his co-host Eldar Faridovich Orlov (Yamaltdinov)?
This isn't empty edgelording, Kirill's email is secretly tied to a Russian white nationalist site White Forum. This website went down almost immediately after Kirill was contacted by Kyiv Independent.
88 also features in an old password to go along with the 14 words below.
Kirill is so driven by hate, he predicted the Russian Federation was bound to collapse into race riots - and that a revolution was needed to prevent this from happening by returning Russia to Russians, hoping to be lead by a neo-monarchy or CEO.
Kirill has in fact long been a fan of the idea of a revolution in Russia against Putin, but dislikes the idea of actually doing anything about it. Perhaps this laissez-faire attitude has kept him from ending up like his old boss, who fell from a window after criticising Putin.
Eldar meanwhile had been involved under the anonymous username "pigdog" with @akarlin and @warlockracy in their project ROGPR, aiming to bring US style alt-right discourse to a Russian audience.
For some reason Eldar originally chose the Twitter handle "LibertarianPedo".
While ROGPR failed, it led Eldar to start DiogenTV (originally named Spermograd), with Kirill also appearing frequently, and they continued the concept of bringing American style messaging to a Russian audience, with guests including puppy eating Nazi Alexey Milchakov.
In case it wasn't obvious, Eldar holds pretty similar views to Kirill.
He says that calling out racism etc. is culturally "zionist", and clearly thinks he is better at writing than he is.
Oh, and he likes to do Nazi salutes too.
DiogenTV and Vendée merged to become RWA, and switched from a Russian audience to an English speaking one, presumably enticed by the thought of Western platform money.
Finally Eldar could use the English skills he picked up from having mostly online, English speaking friends.
Eldar also dreams of one day owning a house in Crimea, but like Kirill isn't prepared to actually do anything in order to fulfill his wishes.
It is almost like he doesn't know Russia is so desperate for dronefodder that they offer large signing up bonuses, *and* coffin money.
It isn't as if the RWA boys closest military enlistment offices are hard to find either. In fact it is so easy we decided to help them find what they have somehow avoided since 2014, despite being fervent supporters of the war.
They're so supportive in fact that they have been collecting donations of behalf of sanctioned entities, including while Kirill was still living in Germany.
These include Milchakov's unit Rusich, known for torturing and executing PoWs, and the so called DPR People's Militia.
Even in Russian media, Kirill lies about these collections, claiming he was raided by German police because he was reposting collections for "humanitarian aid".
Since when are rangefinders and shooting tripods for snipers "humanitarian aid"?
This may be great for their claims to be real Russian patriots, but it does raise questions about the legality of still being hosted by Western platforms, and their payments to the RWA boys.
Since being contacted by Kyiv Independent only Patreon has kicked their account.
It is surprising that other platforms in the West, such as @Spotify , @ApplePodcasts , @Substack and @X have not yet shut down their remaining accounts, considering they have previously used their platforms to break sanctions, fundraising for equipment to help kill Ukrainians.
We have enough dirt on these guys (and their wives Daria and Maria) pro-Russian, pro-war activities that we could write 3-4 threads, and maybe we will some day. But this thread is already too long.
Perhaps we will do a part two soon, if there is still a need for it.
Our investigation unveiled an odd couple unable to make normal friends or be anything other than constant outsiders, using the collective narcissism of being pro-Z to compensate for their undermined sense of social inclusion and self-worth.
This thread is only part of the story, we recommend everyone read the Kyiv Independent article and follow the great investigative journalist behind it @LindaHourani
kyivindependent.com/exclusive-inve…
@LindaHourani You may also like our other investigations that can be found on our linktree. linktr.ee/TUA_Research
@LindaHourani Finally, as the RWA boys say themselves, getting their accounts banned doesn’t help much on the frontline, so please donate to a worthy pro-Ukrainian cause such as this one.
savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/
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