RICHARD SPENCER

Called Russia, “sole white power in the world”

Spencer worked with Aleksandr Dugin even allowing Dugin to contribute to “Alternative Right”, Spencer’s website.

Spencer “I think we should be pro-Russia because Russia is the great white power that exists in the world”[i]
Spencer was married to Nina Kouprianova, a Russian. Kouprianova helped translate Dugin. Kouprianova was also known as a Kremlin troll who wrote under the name Nina Byzantina.[ii]

[i] Joan Walsh, The Nation, “Islamophobs, White Supremacists, and Gays for Trump-The Alt-Right arrives at the RNC”, July 20, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/article/islamophobes-white-supremacists-and-gays-for-trump-the-alt-right-arrives-at-the-rnc/

[ii] Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider, “A Model for civilization: Putin’s Russia has emerged as ‘a beacon for nationalists’ and the American alt-right”, December 10, 2016, http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-connections-to-the-alt-right-2016-11