This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to writer and researcher Tom Lord from

Militant Wire. He's gonna be speaking to us about the Anarko Communist Combat Organization, also known as Boak,

they are a anti- Putin Russian partisan movement inside Russia launching

attacks on infrastructure and military recruitment offices to try and mess with Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Very interesting group taking a lot of risks Tom's gonna tell us all about them.

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slash Popular Front. It's been, I guess you can you can describe it as a partisan group inside Russia so the

anarcho communist combat organization or BOAK if you want to go for the Russian acronym.

It's a Russian group.

They're inside Russia.

They've been attacking railroad lines.

They've been throwing Molotovs

at military recruitment offices, very much anti- Putin, anti-Ukraine war, anti-invasion.

Who are they? What's going on here?

Yeah, so I mean like you mentioned, there's actually been kind of an interesting constellation of partisan activity within Russia and it's spanned the political spectrum.

One of the more prominent and organized groups

that have emerged from all of this

are the anarcho-combat, or anarcho-communist combat Organization, Boak.

They have a strong presence on telegram.

They emerged around the spring of this year when partisan activity kind of began to bubble up to the surface in Russia.

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