Patrick Poppel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Patrick Poppel (* 1985 in Vienna ) is an international pro-Russian propagandist .

Austrian media see Poppel as a Russian agent of influence who maintains contact with right-wing politicians in Austria.

Until 2019 he was the general secretary of the Suvorov Institute in Vienna. After Poppel appeared as an election observer on the soil of the Russian Federation, Federal Councilor Ewa Dziedzic ( The Greens ) asked the Austrian Parliament in 2018 . In 2018 Poppel invited the controversial Russian philosopher Alexunder Dugin to Vienna, which caused a stir in the Austrian media. Poppel is described as an "enemy of the state" on a Ukrainian website because of his support for the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk .

Poppel is currently Secretary General of the Austrian-Abkhaz Society . Poppel is in the rank of "Colonel" commander of the honor guard of the Lazarus Union , of which the controversial German association Uniter is a member.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sputnik, FPÖ, Identitarians: Russian-right rendezvous in Vienna - derStandard.at. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (Austrian German).
  2. ↑ Honorary Members | Suvorov Institute. Retrieved on May 25, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Parliamentary materials. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Lechner: "Russia did what Dugin said before". Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  5. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Netrebko and Holender on Ukrainian "public enemy list". Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  6. ^ Austrian-Abkhazian Society. Retrieved on May 25, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Officers of the honor guard , homepage of the Lazarus Union, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  8. ^ Hannibal's association . taz , December 21, 2018, accessed May 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Poppel, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION international pro-Russian propagandist
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna