Alexander Igorevich Asov ( rus, Александр Игоревич Асов, ; born 29 June 1964), alias Bus Kresen (Бус Кресень, ), is an author of books in

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(called "фолк-хистори" ("folk-history") in Russian publications), as well as novels and poems. He is best known as translator and commenter of allegedly ancient Slavic texts, including ''

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'', widely recognized as forgeries. In 2012, a forum of several '' rodnoveriye'' ( Russian neopaganism) movements published a declaration, which described studies of A. Asov (along with some others) as detrimental to Russian neopaganism.

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