Russian anti-gender messaging has been identified as a key ingredient of Russian propaganda (Edenborg 2023). While Russian propaganda is known to reflect already existing rifts in societies abroad, recent research also suggests that far-right parties take inspiration from Russian propaganda tactics and narratives (Wilson 2023). However, the overlap of Russian and far-right anti-gender messaging networks remains understudied. This paper therefore seeks to explore the connections of Russian anti-gender messaging with far-right messaging, and its key topics over time. Inspired by authoritarian learning literature (Hall and Ambrosio 2017), it investigates the potential ‘illiberal learning’ of right-wing actors. Representing a key venue of Russian propaganda (Oleinik 2023), public Telegram channels are analysed. To recreate the network of Russian anti-gender propaganda, the five key Russian propaganda Telegram channels, including RT (Kireev et al. 2024), are scraped with the Telegram API, and serve as a seed-set. For snowball-sampling, a keyword dictionary is used to identify anti-gender specific forwards to other Telegram channels and external links. Community detection is then applied to separate the channels into groups of nodes (Urman and Katz 2022). The political position of channels is coded on a left-right axis, based on reference to political parties and news websites, combined with sentiment analysis. Lastly, structural topic modeling is used to compare the similarities and differences in anti-gender messaging of the most central pro-Russian with the most central right-wing channels over time (Zehring and Domahidi 2023). Overall, this study contributes to understanding the reinforcing dynamic of pro-Russian and far-right anti-gender messaging.