A response to Drew's criticism
Since publishing an expose detailing a broad pattern of collaboration with the violent far-right, antifascists on Twitter have taken to debating background details instead of the actual scoops of the blog post. This detail is with regards to the connection between Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Konstantin Malofeev which has been framed as a connection to Aleksandr Dugin. I am puzzled as to why Drew focused on this specifically, or how anything stated regarding this constitutes a discrediting "error." Given the value I place on Drew's work, I would like the opportunity to clear up Drew's confusion on the matter and encourage them to focus on the core findings from the expose.
1) Cosmin Dzsurdzsa's interests in Aleksandr Dugin and "esoteric traditionalism" as indicated on Dzsurdzsa's VKonkate page are not meaningful on their own. However, it is meaningful when properly contextualised, as the content of Cosmin Dzsurdzsa's employer at the time, Russia Insider, was informed by the "ideas" and propaganda of Aleksandr Dugin. Dzsurdzsa's social media establishes Dzsurdzsa's own interest in Dugin and reinforces my point of Russia Insider's editorial position being rather explicitly fascist. The idea that Charles Bausman, who had been on Malofeev's payroll during Dzsurdzsa's tenure at Russia Insider, spontaneously began taking up Nazism is absurd and dangerously naive. The point behind identifying Dzsurdzsa's (brief) activities on VK was to demonstrate that Dzsurdzsa knew exactly what he was involved in, not to claim a personal connection to Dugin. Moreover, downplaying Dzsurdzsa's role in disseminating Russian disinformation was the entire basis of Taghva's attempt to gaslight Emma McIntosh, and portraying it as "crankery" is precisely how the Post Millennial responded to McIntosh. Regardless, the individual exerting influence along that astroturfed network is not Dugin, but Konstantin Malofeev. Dugin was little more than a proxy for Konstantin Malofeev during this time.
That said, if I have gotten ANY detail wrong about Dzsurdzsa, I am more than happy to issue a correction. Telling everyone "I don't think it's a direct connection" is neither helpful nor reflective of anything stated in the expose. 
Dugin's ideological programme informed the content of Russia Insider since its inception. Drew is incorrect to dismiss this as a "tenuous connection," especially when a personal relationship between the two was never alleged. It is not plausible for Dzsurdzsa (or anyone else on his behalf) to claim that he was not aware of the agenda of Bausman or Russia Insider.
2) Dzsurdzsa was not the only editor poached from Free Bird Media. Alexandra Hollenbeck was involved in spreading pro-Russian disinformation during her time at Post Millennial. Among these included claims that the Russian presidential election had been attacked by over a dozen foreign states, that the United States supplied chemical weapons to Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime, and that Russian disinformation networks were not propagating hashtags in support of Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham during her attacks on the Parkland School shooting survivor David Hogg. Hollenbeck would just so happen to be around to interview pro-Putin demonstrators for an Anglophone audience. I could keep going, but I do not feel like digging more dirt on someone whose career in media has ended is a good use of my time.
At no point have I ever portrayed Dugin as "calling the shots." This is a baffling interpretation of my work. That said, Dugin's work has influence on the North American far-right. Just because they contradict him on matters such as the People's Republic of China, it does not negate the influence Dugin had found among the alt-right. Fascists frequently take inspiration with other fascists, even when their ideas contradict each other. This is because the policies and positions of fascist states differ in accordance to cultural considerations. That is why Canada's Jewish Defence League has been found hanging out with the neo-Nazi Soldiers of Odin. Moreover, there is an increasing number of alt-right personalities that have encouraged their followers to seek support from the People's Republic of China, most notably Nick Fuentes.
3) Dzsurdzsa and his wife were later involved in campaigns to bring Generation Identity and its campus affiliate Students for Western Civilisation (SWC) to university campus venues. Contrary to Drew's (aka @NoLifeNeet) belief that Generation Identity is not related to the neoEurasianist movement of Aleksandr Dugin, Generation Identity has had a long history of collaboration with Dugin's lackeys (Yuri Kofner especially). The Identitarian programme is promoted on Geopolitika.Ru, a website run by Dugin's neoEurasianist movement. Following Generation Identity Canada member Lauren Southern's interview of Aleksandr Dugin, SWC leader George Hutcheson followed his ex-girlfriend's example and interviewed Michael Millerman, who is Dugin's English translator and a colleague of Richard Spencer's ex-wife. Both GI and its parent organisation Bloc Identitaire take inspiration from the likes of Guillaume Faye, Aleksandr Dugin, Jean-Francois Thiriart, and Alain de Benoist. Generation Identity was also a major part of the World National Conservative Movement, and the leaders of various Generation Identity chapters had contact with Nicholas Truschalov of the Russian Imperial Movement. To put it bluntly, Drew's claim that the Identitarian movement and Generation Identity bear no relationship with the neoEurasianist movement is profoundly ignorant.
Martin Sellner called the "Fourth Political Theory" (Dugin's ideological programme) a "great inspiration" and frequently makes sure to show off Dugin's works in his Youtube videos. It has long been common consensus that Generation Identity has enjoyed support from Russian interests. Dugin's influence on Identitarianism and relationship with Thiriart can also be found in the book Eurasianism and the European Far-Right by Dr. Marlene Laruelle, or Tango Noir: Russia and the Western Far Right by Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov interactions with the German far-right can be found here in a report by Dr. Micha Brumlik.
Pictured: Eurasian Way and Generation Identity members during a joint conference between the organisations. Eurasian Way has long been associated with the neoEurasianist movement.
Over the past couple years, I had been involved in undermining Generation Identity Canada (now ID Canada, and later with my help, briefly rebranding as Cuckolds Anonymous Ottawa) and its quasi-offshoot Students for Western Civilisation. In the hours following the Christchurch shooting, I made an assessment that the shooter was inspired by Generation Identity to a Canadian antifascist journalist. In the months prior, I had fed the ARC Collective information on Rebel Media's ties to Generation Identity. Given my experience (and thus time spent) in watching and dealing with the movement, I do not appreciate dismissal of my findings as "bad anti-Russia crankery" or "sensationalism," even if similar words have also been used by Drew to describe the work of academics such as Markus Kolga in exposing Russian influence operations (that said, I am honoured to be categorised with Dr. Kolga). I have a great deal of respect for Drew's documentation of the fringe Sovereign Citizen movement in Canada, but their pattern of (often baselessly, as in this case) dismissing criticism of the Russian Federation's influence operations is a blind spot that undermines their credibility on this matter.
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