The most influential ultra -right in Russia

The news is increasingly writing about the "Russian community." Participants in the movement conduct raids against migrants and compose denunciations - and are also friends with security forces and Patriarch Kirill. What is known about them

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Fire in Vsevolzhsk

On May 4, the Fontanka publication spoke about a fire in an apartment building in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region. He occurred in an apartment on the seventh floor, where there were a 46-year-old son of the hostess and his friends-a 24-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, a citizen of Armenia. The 37-year-old man died, and rescuers found a woman under the windows of an apartment with severe injuries.

Before the fire, a group of people with the symbols of the Russian community moved into the apartment. They introduced themselves to the police, broke the front door and attacked the Pertice Basket and a stuncher on the son of the housewife of the apartment, which was hiding in the toilet. Then they tried to break the door to the room where the second man and woman were barricaded. At some point, smoke came from the room; The body of the deceased was later discovered there.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of causing death by negligence. According to the Moika 78 publication, investigators are inclined to the version that the deceased himself arranged arson in order to expel the alleged members of the “Russian community” from the apartment, but the flame was greatly flared up. The man died, and the woman jumped out of the window, trying to escape from the fire.

Fontanka also published a video from the camera in the house in which a fire occurred. She took off the men in black, on the hand of one of them the Chevron of the "Russian community" is noticeable. The St. Petersburg branch of the Moika 78 movement stated that the video “Very similar to some kind of provocation”, since the members of the movement allegedly “put on the Chevrons only on official events”.

If members of the “Russian community” really broke into the apartment where the fire occurred, then this is perhaps the most serious incident with their participation for the entire existence of the organization.

“If these killers from the“ Russian community ”are indeed from the“ Russian community ”, then the office must be dispersed, and not only the scum on the video, but also their Nazi elite on the skeleton. It is necessary to find and identify those people who authorize such raids, such methods, such forms of presentation (“We are from the police”), arson and murder, ” reported by journalist Ksenia Sobchak in her telegram channel.

Raids and denunciations

The “Russian community” (RO) is a ultra -right organization that calls itself the environment “for uniting Russian people on the principle of mutual assistance”. She appeared in 2020. Its founders of the Russian BBC Service and the New Gazeta Europe are called the former vice-speaker of the Omsk City Council Andrei Tkachuk, the former coordinator of the movement against abortions "For life!" Evgenia Chesnokov and the leading television channel "Spas" Andrei Afanasyev.

Over the incomplete five years, the “Russian community” has turned into one of the most influential and media ultra -right organizations of Russia. She has more than a million subscribers on Yetube, more than 700 thousand-on VKontakte, almost 650 thousand-mainly channel in telegram (last year it has grown four times, calculated the information and analytical center "OVAD"). In addition, the “Russian community” has about 150 regional and city cells.

The organization buys equipment for the Russian military in Ukraine, arranges for men training in hand-to-hand combat and handling weapons, and for women to weave camouflage networks, organizes collective trips to church and festivities for holidays, and also massively writes denunciations and participates in raids against migrants and representatives of LGBTK+ (which is why it most often enters the news). Here is an incomplete list of examples:

• In July 2023, riot police staged a raid in the prayer house for Muslims in the near Moscow Kotelniki; The “Russian community” called itself the initiator of the raid.
• In January 2024, the Russian Community published a video of the Siloviki raid in Yekaterinburg in a telegram, during which workers (among them were visitors from Kyrgyzstan) forced to walk with a goose.
• In February, activists of the “Russian community” reported to the owner of a cafe in Lyubertsy, who asked to leave the military establishment, “who began to behave very much.” The woman was detained and fined 45 thousand rubles under the article on the "discredit" of the army.
• In March, the Russian community showed a video of the raid in the Pose Gay Bar in Orenburg, after which the first criminal case in Russia was instituted to the prohibition of the LGBT movement. The accused became two employees of the bar.
• In July in Korenovsk, the Krasnodar Territory was held by the march of nationalists. The reason was the messages of the members of the “Russian community” that “40 Kurds” allegedly beaten six local residents.
• In August, a concert of the former Agatha Christie participant Gleb Samoilov was moved in Yekaterinburg due to the denunciation of the “Russian community”. She also achieved the abolition of the concerts of Lolita, the rapper of the village, the Otto Dix group, singer Maybi Baby and other artists.
• Also in August in Yekaterinburg, members of the Russian Community made a raid against migrants who traded fruits and vegetables - and allowed passers to take products. The police watched this and did not interfere.
• Again in August, but already in Samara, the “Russian community” complained about the owners of the Sushkin Syn restaurant because of the name of the establishment and the portrait of the Virgin inside. They started a case of insulting the feelings of believers.
• In September, a native of Uzbekistan, who won the election of municipal deputies in the suburbs, surrendered the mandate after the “Russian community” and the Tsargrad television channel accused him of fraud with humanitarian aid for the Russian military in Ukraine.
• In April 2025, members of the “Russian community” held the action “Uponing Patriotism” in the Yekaterinburg bar “Ogonek” due to the fact that they did not let in the “Participant of Svo ”.

Friendship with Bastrykin and Patriarch

The “Russian community” fully supports the current Russian authorities and cooperates with law enforcement agencies on a scale like no nationalist group before it, said Vera Alperovich’s Russian Service of the BBC Russian Service in the summer of 2024.

Cooperation consists not only in raids against migrants and representatives of the LGBTK community (during which, according to eyewitnesses, the “communitymen” use force), but also in appeals to the head of the UK, Alexander Bastrykin, who gained popularity among the ultra-entertaining due to his anti-migrant rhetoric .

“This [appeals to Bastrykin] at the moment of their [members of the“ Russian community ”] the first and main reaction to any events. And, as experience shows, a quick reaction occurs to these appeals, ”said Vera Alperovich. “Caution, news” calculated that the “Russian community” entered the top five main scammers of Russia, and in terms of the effectiveness of denunciations, she was ahead of all other participants in the list, except Ekaterina Mizulina.

The “Russian community” shares the values ​​of the Russian Orthodox Church and actively interacts with it. In 2023, members of the "community" refused to protect a resident of Nizhnevartovsk from the boyfriend who beat and pursued her because, having become pregnant from him, she had an abortion. And in 2025, at the Congress of “Communities”, Vicarian Patriarch Kirill Archbishop Zelenograd Savva spoke . He handed over the blessing from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Malofeev and "Moscow Tranchi"

One of the sources of the BBC, a nationalist from Nizhny Novgorod, called the “Russian community” an organization that “drowns for Putin, his and Orthodox fundamentalism.” In his opinion, for this “communitymen” receive money. “The basis of financing is Moscow tranches,” he said.

Vera Alperovich from Owl also believes that at least some members of the “Russian community” work for money - the organization was too widely unfolded in just a few years. She spends millions of rubles on charity, actively leads social networks, holds congresses and festivals, issues a merchant and even has her own application. It has a SOS button to call the "folk squad". True, for registration in the application it is proposed to upload a photo of the passport. Members of the RO explain such a thorough verification by the desire to make sure that "we have a Russian person." But other nationalists see this evidence that the “Russian community” is “a conspiracy of special services to control the ultra -right environment”.

So or not, is unknown. Where does the “Russian community” receives money, is also not entirely clear. The organization claims that he lives on donations from the participants, but journalists suggest that it has at least one wealthy donor. Konstantin Malofeev, who had financed ultra -right projects and collaborated with two of the three co -founders of the “community, was suspected of relations with the“ community men ”and the Orthodox oligarch. However, the “new newspaper Europe” noted that the “Russian squad”, which was formed as a result of the split of the “Russian community” in 2024, is much more obvious to Malofeev. This makes the version that Malofeev is a “wallet” of the “Russian community”, the publication believes.