Part 1: Russian and Russian adjacent subterfuge gone wild: Let’s talk about the Russian state connected saboteurs who were at J6.
Let’s start with Charles Bausman. He’s a fascinating one. An American from PA who started Russian Insider. He was also the American connecting Pennsylvania mobilization with Russian media during the Unite the Right Rally. Before January 6, he ran a Lancaster election-protest Facebook group, promoted attendance in Washington, and circulated logistical information. After 1/6 he fled to Moscow.
But that’s not the interesting part, I’m not a leftist. I care about influence operations. Leaked correspondence examined by RBC in 2015 show him publishing material supplied through Alexey Komov (Russian oligarch connected to some super interesting people on the right) requesting financial support, and being discussed as a potential collaborator for Konstantin Malofeyev. Malofeyev denied financing Russia Insider.
Malofeev and Dugin infiltrated the World Congress of Families so they could bring Eurasian Slop to Europe and America.
Bausman’s Russian connections reach back to childhood in 1968 and an adult business career beginning in the late 1980s. The documented political turn comes in 2014, when he launched Russia Insider and sought support through Komov from Malofeyev.
Right after Russia invaded Crimea. His father, Jack Bausman, served as the Associated Press’s Moscow bureau chief. Charles says he lived there between ages four and eight.
Bausman describes being raised Episcopalian, rejecting Christianity and subsequently converting to Orthodoxy while living in Moscow. He recounts a 2003 journey with a Russian Orthodox friend to northern monasteries.
Bausman launched the English-language publication during the year Russia annexed Crimea and war began in eastern Ukraine. Its stated purpose was to challenge what its founders described as biased coverage of Russia. Huh, imagine the irony.
The January 6 committee documents Bausman speaking at New York conferences organized by Elena Branson.
Bausman published “It’s Time to Drop the Jew Taboo.” Its contents include the heading:
“Hostility to Putin’s Russia is largely a Jewish phenomenon.”
He announced that Russia Insider would publish material examining Jewish influence and promoted Richard Spencer’s discussion of the article.
Bausman called Komov “my good friend” and invited readers to the Verona World Congress of Families conference alongside Komov, Brian Brown and Steve Turley.
He provided capital footage Capitol footage to Rossiya-1 on January 7, and a Tsargrad studio appearance in Moscow on January 20.
In its July 23, 2015 investigation, Russian business newspaper RBC examined leaked correspondence involving Bausman, Alexey Komov, and Georgy Gavrish, an associate of Alexander Dugin.
RBC described a Bausman email whose subject translates as “We have published your information for Serbia.” It reported that he had published coverage of a Belgrade protest against a gay-pride parade and asked about financial support from someone identified as “K,” whom RBC interpreted from context as Konstantin Malofeyev.
Komov recruited former Fox producer Jeff Hannik to work for Malofeev and Dugin.
The Russian Orthodox Church’s own report, dated November 20, 2017, identifies all three as speakers at a conference held at Russia’s Civic Chamber, jointly organized by church and chamber bodies.
It identifies:
Hanick as editor-in-chief of
Katehon.com.
Bausman as editor-in-chief of Russia Insider.
Komov as the World Congress of Families’ representative in Russia.
Open Microphone,” a program featuring Bausman and Maxim Grigoriev. It reproduced Grigoriev’s March 3 announcement describing a new project with Bausman and identified episodes where Bausman served as co-host.
CNN’s August 25, 2023 reporting on newly declassified U.S. intelligence identified Grigoriev within an account of Russian civilians used to spread narratives on behalf of the FSB.