In late March 2023, The Moscow Times published a report detailing those ultraconservative, pro-Russian militias fighting in Ukraine. One of these elements, the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), has been training volunteers willing to fight in Ukraine. On the day of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, RIM Founder Denis Gariyev declared, “We of course support the liquidation of the …
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), a Russian far-right unit fighting on the side of Ukraine, hit the headlines earlier this month after carrying out an incursion across the Russian border. The attack on Russia’s Bryansk region, in which two people were allegedly killed, was designed to encourage Russian citizens to commit anti-state violence and expose the weakness of the country’s borders, according to RVC leader Denis Kapustin. But the stunt also highlighted the conflict that for years has divided Russia’s far-right movement over the war in Ukraine: While many Russian ultranationalists support the invasion, a minority have taken up arms against the Kremlin. How did Russian nationalists end up on both sides of the conflict?
The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a US designated foreign terrorist entity, is conducting a recruitment drive, and has opened training for volunteers.
The video, published in December 2020, showed two nattily dressed Russian men waistcoats, pocket squares, silk ties – sipping American whiskey in