Last weekend, Patriotic Alternative’s führer Mark Collett again took on the role of Moscow propagandist, hosting Evgeniy (Eugene), a spokesman for the Russian Brotherhood of Academists. PA’s Telegram channel plugs interview with Evgeniy A fortnight previously this Russian student “Brotherhood” broadcast an interview with Elon Musk’s racist father Errol, who is touring Russia spouting Putin’s propaganda for the benefit of the international far right. The Brotherhood of Academists is tiny and irrelevant inside Russia: even on Telegram – heartland of the pro-Moscow far right – it has fewer than 800 subscribers. Elon Musk’s father Errol, with Russian nationalists including a rather poorly-concealed Evgeniy It celebrates Tsarism, with one of the Tsar’s last prime ministers Pyotr Stolypin as one of its historical heroes, and (unlike most of Putin’s fans) disparages Bolshevism. But its true role is as part of Moscow’s outreach to the Western far right. Konstantin Malofeev, a sanctioned oligarch, is the Brotherhood’s main sponsor and the group is closely linked to his ultra-right television station Tsargrad, which is also subject to international sanctions.
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