A new US intelligence report says the Kremlin spent $300 million since 2014 to try and influence several European countries using front companies and think tanks.
Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million in recent years trying to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, including Europe.
According to the US State Department, a new American intelligence assessment of Russia’s global covert efforts to support policies and parties sympathetic to Moscow targeted elections in Albania, Bosnia and Montenegro, among other countries, including Ukraine.
Some of the tactics Russia allegedly used included using front organisations to funnel money to preferred causes or politicians, including think tanks in Europe.
Putin was spending huge sums “in an attempt to manipulate democracies from the inside,” said a US official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.
State Department spokesman Ned Price called Russia’s covert funding an “assault on sovereignty.”
“It is an effort to chip away at the ability of people around the world to choose the governments that they see best fit to represent them, to represent their interests, and to represent their values,” he added.
American diplomats have been tasked with talking to the governments of some of the countries allegedly targeted by the Kremlin for malign influence operations, and although no information has been given about any politicians or parties who specifically benefited from Russian funding, classified information has been given to some specific countries, the State Department said.
The US also has a long history of covertly funding political groups and individual politicians, and been responsible for efforts to topple or undermine foreign governments, including democracies.
Oh great the Russiagate brainworms are spreading to Europe fantastic. I hope you know that painting Putin as the one responsible for the resurgence of fascism in the US and Europe is helping fascists.
Marie in France was the first
Was the first what?
She’s part of a fascist party that has been around for decades.
Stop blaming the unappealing nature of neoliberalism and liberal politicians that adhere to it on “Russian disinformation.”
This is dangerous in terms of giving cover to the actual fascists and rising fascist sentiment in the west, and insulting to those of us who have been suffering under the decades of neoliberalism that is the fault of capitalists, not one guy in another country.
Did Russian disinfo also cause the Canadian parliament to honor a literal Nazi for a second time (first was back in 2008)?
Marie Le Pen’s father was president of the National Front, lol. This person saying she’s the first…
I read their comment confused thinking it was about Marie Antoinette
Mainly because Le Pen’s name is Marine
Pfff like the ocean French is a fake language
lmao WaPo.
Libs will call anyone who is an anti-imperialist a Russian / Chinese bot with no hesitation, yet homie up here has made 96 posts about Ukraine in the past 24 hours. I thought maybe we federated with a new instance but it’s just one person posting hard as hell lmao
imperialistic thought is spoken on Russian Public TV on prime time tv time, and a few times we got already the phrase from Kremlin propagandists saying that the restoration of the russian empire and new ruusia, so i got to correct you , sorry but i think i can make the posts i want or m i not free to post as many as i want whenever i want, if your prerogative is to not like them why did you reed them and why are you responding to them, do you want to limit my posts is that it? that’s very noble of you tp admit it
hell yeah keep posting I’m not trying to slow you down. We have a whole community on hexbear dedicated to laughing shit takes.
please take my posts there, please
Ласкаво просимо в Україну! Цим Ви призвані в армію.
Ласкаво просимо в Україну! Цим Ви призвані в армію
and i would fight with honour for that flag, why and what are you fighting for?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A new US intelligence report says the Kremlin spent $300 million since 2014 to try and influence several European countries using front companies and think tanks.
Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million in recent years trying to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, including Europe.
According to the US State Department, a new American intelligence assessment of Russia’s global covert efforts to support policies and parties sympathetic to Moscow targeted elections in Albania, Bosnia and Montenegro, among other countries, including Ukraine.
Putin was spending huge sums “in an attempt to manipulate democracies from the inside,” said a US official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.
State Department spokesman Ned Price called Russia’s covert funding an “assault on sovereignty.”
The US also has a long history of covertly funding political groups and individual politicians, and been responsible for efforts to topple or undermine foreign governments, including democracies.
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