Alexander Potkin

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Alexander Potkin
Александр Поткин
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Potkin in 2012
Personal details
BornAlexander Anatolyevich Potkin
(1976-05-29) 29 May 1976 (age 49)
PartyDPNI (2002–2011)
Russians (2011–2015)

Alexander Anatolyevich Potkin (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Поткин; born 29 April 1976),[1] also known as Alexander Belov, is a Russian nationalist politician.[2][3]

Political career

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Potkin led the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, a nationalist organization, which was later banned in April 2011.[4][5] The following month, he co-founded the nationalist organization "Russians" with Dmitry Demushkin, which was later banned in 2015.[6]

Criminal cases

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In May 2009, he was found guilty by a Moscow Court of inciting ethnic hatred after comparing the Russian White House to a Torah Scroll.[7]

In August 2016, he was sentenced to prison on charges of creating an extremist group and money laundering. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.[2]

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