Alexander Igorevich Asov (Russian: ????????? ???????? ????, IPA: [?l??'ksandr ?'gor??v??t? 'as?f], born 29 June 1964), alias Bus Kresen (??? ???????, IPA: [bus kr?es?en?]), is an author of books in Russian pseudohistory (called "????-???????" ("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 Book of Veles, 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.