AllatRa

In the 2000s, a series of books of spiritual and esoteric nature by a self-published author under the pseudonym Anastasia Novykh (Russian: Анастасия Новых) appeared in Ukraine, written in the Russian language. In 2011, in Kyiv, members of a public organization,[4] who promoted a movement of readers of these books, founded the Lagoda International Public Organization. In 2013, AllatRa, the main book of Novykh, was self-published by the AllatRa publishing house.

The AllatRa International Public Movement was formally registered in July 2014 by the Lagoda organization, the AllatRa publishing house and active participants in the movement.[4]

Nikolas Roerich, a Russian Imperial-era theosophist inspired by Tibetan mythology, introduced a mythical character named Rigden Djappo to the Russosphere and attributed to it the title of King of Shambhala. He considered him the savior who would appear at the end time. The Rigden Djappo character was invoked by Anastasia Novykh in the 2000s to co-narrate the book "ALLATRA ", the main source of spiritual knowledge of the ALLATRA organization. Igor Mikhailovich Danilov, a chiropractor whose office was close to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, is considered by the ALLATRA organization to be the spiritual leader of the movement and the embodiment of Rigden Djappo.

ALLATRA emphasizes a Pan-Slavic ideal that the unification of the world on a single spiritual basis would begin with the unification of the Slavic peoples, and that the leadership of Moscow would play an important role in the future battle of good and evil. Because of this, in the media there were opposite speculations about the involvement of the movement with Russian and Ukrainian secret services.[5]

Since ALLATRA's re-registration in Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian sources, critical of the movement, reported extensive online and billboard advertisement campaigns in Ukrainian cities. These included forging agreements with Ukrainian mayors and city officials and were successful in gaining growing groups of followers. A 2016 article on Релігія в Україні (Ukrainian: Religion in Ukraine), a Ukrainian-language website that specializes in religions in Ukraine, described ALLATRA as a "pro-Russian sect of Putin's supporters",[6][7][8][9] a view shared by Jan Cemper, editor-in-chief of the Manipulátoři.cz.

ALLATRA books, fliers, advertisements and conferences have been reported across the United States, Germany, Czechia, Turkey,[10] and different parts of the world.[11] Citations to ALLATRA works were found in academic publications of universities in Russia,[12][13][14][15][16][17] Ukraine,[18][19][20][21] Georgia,[22] Poland and Iraq.

In 2017, the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate had "condemned the activities" of ALLATRA, alleging that its activities were facilitated by the Kiyv Pechersk Lavra run by the rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.[23] Marina Tsvigun, a rival Ukrainian religious leader, as well as other rival Slavic Native Faith movements, also criticized ALLATRA's teachings.

In 2019, the Russian Federal Security Service reported that it had thwarted what it described as Anti-Semite terrorism plans in Taganrog, Russia by a group allegedly associated with ALLATRA and named Union of the World Liberation Movement for People's Brotherhood and Union of the peoples of the sun and the peoples of the crescent. The group was described as an extremist Ukrainian nationalist group.[24][25] The Chelyabinsk Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church condemned these alleged activities.

In 2019, Robby Wells of the United States' Democratic Party announced in a 2019 ALLATRA conference that he was running for president of the United States inspired by ALLATRA principles. He eventually did not meet the minimum criteria to be a major candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

• The Urantia Book