“Ionov’s involvement with TNM and Yes California, for instance, came shortly after both groups were reportedly approached by the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA), better known as the Russian troll factory, to participate in a series of anti-Hillary Clinton rallies.
starring Mr. Putin. After meeting Ms. Butina on the trip, he hired her as a $5,000-a-month consultant to help pursue the show, though he gave up on it a few months later./ After the N.R.A. declined to pay some of the trip’s costs, Mr. Brownell covered nearly $14,000 in travel expenses for(
for use in the 2016 presidential election.”/ Like Mr. Keene, some others on the trip had an interest in Russia beyond the N.R.A. Jim Liberatore, chief executive of Outdoor Sportsman Group, which operates the Outdoor Channel and has financial ties to the N.R.A., had an idea for a reality show(
who was then the opinion editor of The Washington Times, hoped to secure an interview with〜Putin,〜accto people familiar with the email./The N.R.A.’s outside counsel,Mr. Brewer, said that after an internal review, the group“believes that no foreign money made its way into the organization(
all of the related travel expenses, though it did cover some of them./The trip was organized by David Keene, a former N.R.A. president who was close to Ms. Butina, and who had his own interests in Russia. An email between a member of the delegation and Paul Erickson,〜suggests that Mr. Keene,(
1/28 The N.R.A.’s chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, forbade staff members to join the delegation that went toRussia,accto the organization’s outside counsel, William A. Brewer III〜TheN.R.A.’s president at the time, Allan Cors, abandoned a plan to join the delegation,&the group refused to pay(
Paul Whelan/ John Sipher のコメ。明らかにスパイじゃないよなhttps://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1081189721726947329
And there's a long history of—through the Cold War of people accepting something and then being arrested, so they could be used like in these hostage situations.
9/17 So in 2007 Butina & Shamir's common friend Dmitri Linter was involved in anti-Estonian riots in Tallinn. And now he works as Advisor to the Director of the Russian Military Historical Society and is busy helping to erase evidence of Stalin's purges.
- is good at building bridges outside Russia with activists on the far left and far right (e.g. Assange), among traditionalists, orthodox religious activists, social conservatives, aspiring authoritarians and nostalgic Stalinists.
9/17 In Russia, Shamir is part of the same broad social network of Eurasianists, militarists, monarchists, Izborskiy Club members, KGB & GRU assets and veterans, who - regardless of how they may feel about Putin - answer the Kremlin's call to action./Shamir - like his friend Alexandr Dugin(
Knyrik, Konstantin GRU asset,follower of Dugin. Led a unit of little green men into Crimea in2014.Operates alt-news organization News Front/ Shurygin, Vladislav Closely associated with the Zavtra &a permanent member of the Izborsky Club.〜Heavily involved in anti-Maidan protest activities in2014/
9/11 Biryukov, Fyedor A leader of the Rodina Party /Olevich, Victor Lead Expert at the Center for Policy Relevance a/k/a the Actual Policy Center/ Rodionov, Dmitry AKA Ogneev Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at the Institute for Innovative Development/