Vladimir Basmanov (real name Potkin) is the nationalist organiser. He is a leader of the Nationalist Movement and, along with his more famous brother Alexander Belov (Potkin), is the founder of the largest Russian nationalist organisation, the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), which existed in Russia from 2002 to 2011. After the DPNI was banned, Vladimir Basmanov switched to the opposition and went abroad, from where he further organised nationalists. In 2011, together with his brother, he founded the Ethno-Political Union “The Russians”, which was banned in 2015. In 2014, he founded and headed the “Nation and Freedom” committee. While in exile, he applied to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to [initiate](https://www.svoboda.org/a/27635574.html) the prosecution of Vladimir Putin. On September 9, 2020, at a meeting of the Council of the Nationalist Movement, he was elected as Leader.

**Bio**

Born on 10 May 1980. Joined the most famous Soviet monarchist organisation, the NPF Pamyat. In July 2002, he founded the Movement against Illegal Immigration and wrote the programme and the first ideological documents of the organisation. From July 2003 to September 2006 he was coordinator of the Moscow regional branch of the DPNI. Since September 2002 coordinator of the Central Council of the DPNI. In the presidential election of 2004 he was registered as an authorized representative of economist Sergei Glaziev.

In 2005 he put forward the idea of holding a general march of the nationalists – the Russian March. He was one of the organisers of the first march held on November 4, 2005.