Russia Monitor Monthly November 2020

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SOURCE: DUMA.GOV.RU

27 November 2020

IN THE INTEREST OF THE KREMLIN? RUSSIAN OLIGARCH CREATES FAR-RIGHT MOVEMENT Konstantin Malofeev has been around in Russian politics since at least 2014 when he gained notoriety for the vital role he had played in financing separatists in Crimea and Donbas. Now he is setting his sight on forming a social movement, possibly to help monitor far-right moods that have been on the rise in Russia. This is all the more probably as Malofeev is befriended with Russia’s siloviki.

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