Charles Bausman

Charles Bausman (born 1964) is a Russian activist, and American expatriate previously living in Russia. He is a publisher of Russia Insider, an antisemitic website that portrays itself as an alternative to Western narratives of news.

Bausman has connections with neo-Nazi group The Right Stuff and attended the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Bausman moved to Russia as a self-proclaimed political refugee following January 6 attack. He makes regular appearances on Russian State media. These properties were later abandoned when Bausman returned to Russia after the January 6th Capitol riot. Bausman through Alexy Komov had asked Konstantin Malofeev to fund the website. Komov wrote to Malofeev

Charlie, however, has created a good website – .http://russia-insider.com/en – a high-quality, pro-Russian and popular one. He wants to cooperate..." RT then publicly denounced Charles Bausman and Russia Insider on January 20, 2018. a religious cult, the 2020 United States presidential election, and Stop the Steal. Emails indicate that Bausman tried to plan a similar conference in Russia. Emails reveal that funding for Bausman's neo-Nazi conference attendance and planning came from Komov through the St. Basil the Great Charitable Foundation.

In August 2020 a rally was held on Bausman's property announcing National Justice Party which Mike Enoch Peinovich would lead.

Lancaster Patriot

Charles Bausman also created the Lancaster Patriot website which was mirrored to a website hosted in Russia. The main author of the website was Norman “Trey” Garrison, a white nationalist podcaster on Peinovich's The Right Stuff network. Garrison listed his address as one of Bausman's properties when the Texas Native was arrested in Lancaster.

Lancaster Patriot ceased publication after Garrison was identified as the main author. However a paper version was reported as circulating in May 2021 Jack graduated from Harvard in 1950, became a reporter for the Associated Press for forty years during the Cold War and was the bureau chief in Moscow for four years beginning July 1968 covering Richard Nixon's trip to Moscow from 22 to 30 May 1972 during détente. His older sister Mary-Fred Bausman-Watkins died in May 2022. He has a brother. His wife Kristina Bausman is from Mednogorsk. Bausman was previously married to Olga Bausman.