He feels these things deeply. One can only imagine his feelings from him last December when an Australian company, Infowars Limited, was incorporated.
ASIC filings show the largest shareholder, with 40 per cent, was Ekaterina Olshannikovathe 27-year-old Russian wife of Simeon Boykovwho calls himself the Aussie Cossack.
Infowars Australia has no apparent link to Jones’ US outfit. Perhaps they just liked the name.
Boikov, 32, has made a name for himself for his vehemently pro-Putin stance, his rallying of anti-vaxxers, a fondness for funny hats and dress ups when with fellow Cossacks, and playing the piano accordion.
Boykov produces a Russian-language publication, FrontierNewsand rails against mainstream media such as Nine’s A Current Affair (Nine also owns the Financial Review), which he repeatedly accused of being “complicent” in fake news in a profile of him in March.
Boikov’s journalistic endeavors have been on hiatus since May 16 while he serves a six-month prison sentence for broadcasting the suppressed name of a person facing child abuse claims. Olshannikova chronicles his jail experiences for the vlog.
It’s a lot of work running her husband’s channels on TikTok, Telegram, Facebook and YouTube. Perhaps that’s why Olshannikova resigned from the Infowars board on July 13.
She’s come a long way since Boikov’s Australia Day video when he introduced followers to “Mrs Cossack”. Her only comment from her: “Yeah we need to set up some merch.”
She means selling merchandise. It’s the money shot. Alex Jones would be proud.