Tommy Robinson, the Far-Right Agitator, Lifted by Trump, Turns to Russia – The New York Times

U.K. Far Right, Lifted by Trump, Now Turns to Russia (Published 2021)

The anti-Islam agitator Tommy Robinson struck gold in America. Keeping it might require help from Moscow, where other British far-right activists are also finding friends.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/europe/uk-far-right-tommy-robinson-russia.html

A former soccer hooligan and founder of the English Defence League, one of Britain’s most notorious nationalist groups, Mr. Robinson has largely been a pariah in his home country but Trump loyalists embraced him much the way they embraced many of the American extremist groups whose members would join the Capitol riot, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.