ABSTRACT
This chapter explores relations between various Russian actors and the far right in all their complexity by scrutinising their most important aspects. It discusses the active cooperation, as well as the motivations behind this cooperation, between Russian and Western far-right politicians after the fall of the Soviet Union. The chapter considers two areas of dynamic cooperation between various Russian actors and Western far-right politicians and organisations aimed at supporting and consolidating alternative institutions that aspire to challenge and undermine liberal-democratic practices and traditions: electoral monitoring and the media. It looks at openly pro-Russian activities that European far-right movements and organisations have carried out in their national contexts. The chapter identifies several types of structures and individuals who furthered cooperation between the European far right and the Russian actors linked to the Kremlin. It also explores the performance of European far-right politicians on high-profile discussion platforms in Moscow and at sessions of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels.
