The RDK and the O9A IV. And PMC Wagner?

No winners, only losers. Degrelle and Dugin. Michael Aquino and Savitri Devi. Transnational Nazi Satanist networks. Strategic Rocket Bases.

Over the course of the past three articles, I’ve analyzed the connections between the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), a FBI-sponsored nazi-satanist cult dating back from the 1980s, and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a military unit composed of hardcore Russian neo-nazis organized by Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) in 2022.

In the first article, we looked at how one of the top figures in the RDK, Alexey Kanakhin, has openly discussed his years spent in the Russian ‘nexion’ (cell) of the O9A. This led us onto a look at some of his literary output, like his poem ‘Crusade of the Children’, calling for a bloody uprising, or ‘Krystallnacht’ by fanatical children ‘Against the vile adult world’.

This drew us into a more detailed analysis of various cases of school shootings in Russia by youth of neo-nazi persuasions. We found that head of the GUR Kyryllo Budanov was quite keen on covert operations that ‘traumatized’ the Russian public. Besides, he is also in need of fanatics willing to carry out more banal operations, such as assassinations or launching drone attacks. His employees at the RDK come quite in handy in these tasks. Alexey Levkin, one of the leaders of the RDK, has been the lead singer of national socialist black metal group M8l8th (‘Hitler’s Hammer’) and the esoteric hitlerist online community ‘Wotanjugend’ since the 2000s. These networks provide him with a pool of tens of thousands of deranged youth across Russia.

Last week I put out an article on the Misanthropic Division (MD) in the context of the recent would-be Trump assassin. The MD, which openly praises school shooters in both the US and Russia on its social media pages, is also praised alongside the O9A by child predators and general psychopaths in Russia, as we saw in RDK and O9A I. The MD and Wotanjugend also go way back, both being hardcore neo-nazis from Russia that declared Ukraine and the Azov movement their new home.

Whenever you start digging into strange networks of spooked-up militants, everything starts to converge, no matter how seemingly heterogenous or even opposed said networks might be. And this is exactly the topic of today’s article - our RDK/O9A investigation has bumped up against the articles I wrote several months ago about the mysteries of Russia’s now-extinct PMC Wagner and Russia’s supposedly anti-western ‘Orthodox oligarch’ Konstantin Malofeev.

In other words, today we will be looking at the ongoing links between Russia’s O9A ecosystem and certain Russian ethnonationalists who claim to support the Russian government and its war with the Ukrainian state.

The nexion never died

Now, it shouldn’t be that easy to be a Satanist neo-nazi in modern Russia. Hardly a month or even week goes by without Russian law enforcement raiding members of pro-Ukrainian cells with such ideological persuasions. These ideologies are also often discussed on Russian television. However, Russia is a very big country, filled with many people…

In my RDK I article, we learned about the not so charming Semen Chulkov, a satanist neo-nazi convicted in Moscow in 2024 for rape of a 14-year-old. Besides supporting the Misanthropic Division and the O9A, Chulkov’s social media showed he was subscribed to a certain publisher in Russia called Ex Nord Lux.

Сhulkov in custody

Now, publishers play a serious role in the O9A community. It isn’t always easy to openly call for child abuse, mass rape and genocide for its own sake. However, writing ‘novels’ about said topics is relatively legal in a range of countries. This is precisely what Joshua Sutter’s publisher Martinet Press has done for decades, sponsored by the FBI as an ‘informant’ to the tune of $140,000 USD.

As we saw in part I of our O9A/RDK series, Martinet Press also published a book called Kiss of Marina: Temple of the Black Sun about a Russian ‘nexion. Future RDK member Kirill Kanakhin was involved in both the book and the nexion.

Now, back to the currently-existing O9A publisher in Russia. Ex Nord Lux describes itself as follows:

We specialize in publishing foreign nonfiction and philosophical prose. Our goal is to introduce Russian-speaking readers to lesser-known authors, uncovering new dimensions, perspectives, and horizons of alternative worldviews.

A translated version of the site

What ‘lesser-known authors’ might that be? An online bookstore selling Ex Nord Lux products told a Russian journalist who inquired that Semen Chulkov was interested in works by the fascist mystic Julius Evola and SS member Leon Degrelle.

Belgian interlude

Degrelle is quite an interesting figure. His life illustrates the strange symbiosis between the Third Reich, the NATO Fourth Reich, and modern Russian nationalists who claim to oppose NATO.