AUGUSTUS C. ROMAIN, JR. (“ROMAIN“) was a United States citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia. ROMAIN served as the Secretary General of the APSP until approximately November of 2018. In or around November of 2018, ROMAIN left the African People’s Socialist Party and founded BLACKHAMMER, which was a political group based in Atlanta, Georgia. As recently as June of 2022, ROMAIN and BLACKHAMMER-acting at the direction or control of, and with funding from, IONOV and AGMR-engaged in direct action within the United States to further the interests of Russia in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.