Security forces in Samara carried out searches at the homes of followers of the AllatRa movement.

In Samara, a major city on the Volga River, followers of the AllatRa movement were subjected to searches as part of an investigation into the financing of extremism (Part 2, Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code), reports the channel “Operativnye Svodki.”

According to investigators, from 18 August 2023 to 25 May 2024, the suspects sent the organisation 22 money transfers totalling 225,000 roubles (approx. US$2,600).

• The AllatRa movement was founded in Ukraine in 2011. It combines elements of religious cults, conspiracy theories, philosophy and esoteric beliefs. In 2021, the analytical publication VoxUkraine linked the movement to Russian propaganda and described it as a “conspiracy religion aimed at spreading the ‘Russian World’ to anyone who can read Russian.”
• The Prosecutor General’s Office declared AllatRa an “undesirable” organisation in August 2023. The agency claimed that “participants receive instructions from Ukrainian coordinators to establish contacts with representatives of opposition forces and to carry out coordinated actions to discredit the policies of federal and regional authorities.” At the end of June, the Supreme Court ruled to designate the movement as “extremist” on the territory of the Russian Federation.