Atomwaffen Division Russia

Though AWD central in the United States claimed to disband in March 2020, a Russia-based affiliate of the organization emerged in late May of that year. On May 31, 2020, the Atomwaffen Division announced a new branch in Russia and released Russian translations of its ideological texts. The official name of this affiliate is unclear; for ease of reference, this profile has adopted the term “AWD Russia.” AWD Russia launched a Telegram channel and began broadcasting propaganda in Russian, including manifestos from extreme-right terrorists Dylann Roof and Anders Breivik, James Mason’s SIEGE, and The Turner Diaries, a foundational anti-Semitic text in the American neo-Nazi movement. Advertised on AWD Germany’s Telegram channel, AWD Russia also maintains a page on the Russian social networking platform VK and solicits applications from prospective members.