Putin's fascist international: The UK connection
In this post, how the Nazi Mark Collett of Britain's Patriotic Alternative and far right ex-academic dis-influencer Matt Goodwin of Reform UK are part of a well funded network of hard right activists sustained by oligarch and close Putin associate Konstantin Malofeev and by MOL, a Hungarian based oil company that launders sanction-busting Russian energy to Europe.
White supremacist leaders from France, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States gathered on February 7, 2026, to discuss their efforts to build whites-only communities around the world. The conference was hosted by Eric Orwoll, the founder and leader of “Return to the Land” (RTTL), a self-described “intentional community” that owns property in Arkansas. RTTL only allows people of European descent, who they vet to assure their white nationalist views, to build homes on the community’s land... The conference, a personal project of Orwoll’s, featured 16 speakers, a roster that was a veritable “who’s who” of white nationalist community builders.
Here's the UK participants:
Also speaking was the founder of U.K. far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA), Mark Collett. Collett has been a far-right activist since early adulthood, starting as a young, fresh-faced spokesperson for the fascist British National Party (BNP). He founded PA in 2019, and reaches an international audience through his livestreams, social media, written work, and speaking events.
In January 2026, Collett gave a speech during a conference organized by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, a banker and owner of the Kremlin-aligned Tsargrad media group. Collett was one of several ultranationalist speakers, including Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian political philosopher whose theories have inspired far-right groups across Europe. Collett told the Guardian that his comments during the presentation focused on the reduction of white Britons into a minority and “that eastern European countries must not allow the same thing on their soil.”
Mark Collett during his talk at the Intentional Community Conference on February 7, 2026. (Source: YouTube).
Despite PA never successfully registering as a political party, Collett has encouraged fellow believers to involve themselves in mainstream politics. In 2024, he wrote an article for the neo-Nazi publication Heritage and Destiny dubbed “Right to Reply – Nationalist Community Politics.” In his piece, Collett reportedly advocated not only for white ethnostate community projects, but for supporters without public or law enforcement records connecting them to extremist movements to join the Reform U.K. Party. Reform is led by Nigel Farage, one of the architects of the U.K.’s movement to leave the European Union (Brexit). Reform is frequently accused of spreading racism and Islamophobia within the U.K.
At the conference, Collett spoke about his time as a staffer and eventual candidate for the BNP, decrying watching regions of the country where he distributed party literature in transition from being majority white into “multicultural communities.”
“Replacement is real. It’s not a conspiracy theory,” he told the listeners. “It’s a conspiracy against our people. A conspiracy enacted by powerful people in the establishment who hate us. And this replacement happens quicker than you think.”
One of the more prominent speakers was Simon Birkett (also known as Woodlander), a long-time far-right activist with connections to Patriotic Alternative, and past associations with fascist U.K. political parties like the BNP and National Front. Initially building a following on YouTube, Birkett is the leader of “The Woodlander Initiative” (TWI), a land-buying scheme similar to RTTL with two properties in rural Wales.
Meanwhile, from Alice McCool and published at the Good Law Project, "Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil".
Matt Goodwin, the GB News presenter standing for Reform UK in this month’s Gorton and Denton byelection, says he wants his “country back”. But Good Law Project can reveal that he received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary.
Goodwin has been speaking at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) events since 2024 and seems to have served as a “visiting fellow” since at least last summer, when he returned to Budapest in August to speak on a panel moderated by the British anti-trans commentator Joanna Williams...
MCC is a college and propaganda outfit for Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán based in Budapest. It is funded in part by a 10% stake in MOL Group – an energy giant that refines oil, most of which comes from Russia... MCC has spent more than £500,000 giving a megaphone to extreme rightwing voices in the UK. The college is plugged into an influence operation built around the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation – a network that includes Nigel Farage’s senior adviser and anti-abortion theologian James Orr, the Spectator editor and former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, the anti-trans figurehead Kathleen Stock and the Palantir co-founder and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel.For context on the Malofeev network, this is from Searchlight back in October:
Last month, St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Palace — the city’s Legislative Assembly building — quietly hosted a meeting which led to the formation of a new international alliance of the extreme right across Europe. Within its historic chambers, an international congress brought together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements under the banner of the newly declared "International League of Anti-Globalist Paladins"...
The event, organised by the Kremlin-linked businessman Konstantin Malofeev, was more than a symbolic gathering – it represented an alarming convergence of religion, identity and extremism.
Malofeev, a sanctioned oligarch, is the main sponsor of the Russian Brotherhood of Academists, one of whose representatives was recently interviewed on Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett’s online chat show.
The Brotherhood is closely linked to Malofeev’s ultra-right television station Tsargrad, which is also subject to international sanctions.
For context on MOL group, this is from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Unit from July:
A little-known oil trading firm, Normeston Trading, has quietly funneled more than 20 million tonnes of Russian crude—worth over $10 billion—into Central Europe since 2011, according to ImportGenius trade data analyzed by iStories... From the Russian side,... 49.9% of Normeston was held [in 2021] by Marte Trading and Investment, a U.K. company owned by Valery Subbotin, a former vice president of Lukoil and ex-chairman of its trading arm Litasco. Subbotin left Russia in 2016 and is now a Cypriot citizen living in Monaco. On the Hungarian side, shareholders include Imre Fazakas, a Soviet-educated oil consultant and former Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari Nyrt. (MOL) executive, and The Madera Investment Fund, tied to György Nagy, a businessman with close ties to Orbán's political circles.
Comments