Alexander Anatolyevich Potkin (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Поткин; born 29 April 1976),^[1] also known as Alexander Belov, is a Russian nationalist politician.^[2][3]

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Alexander Potkin
Александр Поткин
Potkin in 2012
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Born	Alexander Anatolyevich Potkin (1976-05-29) 29 May 1976 (age 47) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	DPNI (2002–2011) Russians (2011–2015)

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Potkin led the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, a nationalist organization, which was later banned in April 2011.^[4][5] The following month, he co-founded the nationalist organization "Russians" with Dmitry Demushkin, which was later banned in 2015.^[6]

In May 2009, he was found guilty by a Moscow Court of inciting ethnic hatred after comparing the Russian White House to a Torah Scroll.^[7]

In August 2016, he was sentenced to prison on charges of creating an extremist group and money laundering. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.^[2]