Journalist + researcher + head @BCatMonitoring + slowly but steadily disengaging from this website. Signal: michaelcolborne.01
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Aug 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"Iggy is at the top"
@Matt_A_Shea & @JamieTahsin, in their new @bbcthree doc on Andrew Tate, explore the central, creepy role of Miles Sonkin, a former alleged cult member.
We identified and discussed him in our @bellingcat article on @ReachTWR.
The ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’ (RDK), the combat unit on the 🇺🇦 side who claims to have made an incursion into Bryansk 🇷🇺 (i.e., likely not a 'false flag'), are led by a figure well known to myself and those who follow the transnational far right: Denis Kapustin (aka Nikitin)
The RDK was founded in Aug 2022, made up largely of ostensible anti-Putin Russian far-right extremists in Ukraine. Kapustin, leader, is a Moscow-born neo-Nazi who spent time living in Cologne 🇩🇪 and speaks German and English fluently in addition to his native Russian
Aug 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In central Belgrade 🇷🇸, members of the far-right 'People's Patrol' (Narodna patrola) have painted a mural of Darya Dugin, the late daughter of Aleksandr Dugin — they call her "a great friend of the Serbian people"
"Ispod Brankovog mosta u Beogradu osvanuo je mural ubijenoj Darji Duginoj, ćerki ruskog ideologa Aleksandra Dugina, koji se smatra jednim od najbližih savetnika Vladimira Putina"