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Russian charged with using US groups to spread propaganda
AP ^ | By ERIC TUCKER and MIKE SCHNEIDER

Posted on 07/29/2022 2:05:27 PM PDT by NoLibZone

AP) — A Russian operative under the supervision of one of the Kremlin’s main intelligence services has been charged with recruiting political groups in the United States to advance pro-Russia propaganda, including during the invasion of Ukraine, the Justice Department said Friday.

The indictment of Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov reflects what U.S. officials say are ongoing Russian government efforts to meddle in the American political process, to shape public opinion and to sow discord and dissent on hot-button social issues.

In this case, the authorities say, Ionov from 2014 through last March recruited political groups in Florida, Georgia and California and directed them to spread pro-Russia talking points

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To: piasa

Not sure what groups in Atlanta Ionov was involved with. Is Stacey Abrams associated with the Uhuru movement or Ionov?


81 posted on 07/30/2022 2:07:40 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Not sure what groups in Atlanta Ionov was involved with. Is Stacey Abrams associated with the Uhuru movement or Ionov?

The Uhuru movement is associated with the rioters that burned Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Holder got a lot of bang out of that.


82 posted on 07/30/2022 2:11:44 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flick Lives

He wasn’t a registered foreign agent while he was recruiting Americans to be trained abroad.


83 posted on 07/30/2022 2:23:35 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flick Lives

Not to mention Russian meddling in California to promote secession.


84 posted on 07/30/2022 2:25:43 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: caww

And Gorbachev came over here to promote the Greens that have been sabotaging the US economy ever since with their Climate bull crap.


85 posted on 07/30/2022 2:33:44 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: familyop

Not to mention:

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Durham indicted the Russian-born, U.S.-based Danchenko on five counts of lying to the FBI in connection with his role as a major source for Christopher Steele’s fraudulent “Russia dossier” on Donald Trump....


86 posted on 07/30/2022 2:36:38 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks, and check this out.

Russian Charged With Using US Groups to Spread Propaganda
[See “secession” in re. the California organization.]
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russian-influence-campaign/2022/07/29/id/1080983/

Cal-exit? Meet the movement for Californian secession
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cal-exit-meet-the-movement-for-californian-secession/


87 posted on 07/30/2022 4:40:37 AM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: piasa

And this...all commies.

A British YouTuber has been sanctioned by the UK government for spreading pro-Russian conspiracies
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4082017/posts

[Graham Phillips wrote articles for the New Statesman, a radical socialist magazine.]

And the following piece by Simon Jenkins. He’s written for The Guardian for a long time. He wrote for the Huffington Post. He wrote at least once in the past that the UK should cut its defense funding—all of it. He wrote against Brexit.

The rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever - our sanctions have backfired
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4082016/posts


88 posted on 07/30/2022 4:46:59 AM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: piasa

Wasn’t it Birtain that caught the US spying on them?


89 posted on 07/30/2022 7:03:31 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: NoLibZone

ROFL
You posted an AP (Always Propaganda) article about propaganda
this is hilarious and complete BS


90 posted on 07/30/2022 7:57:21 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“Agents of a foreign power must register. Otherwise illegal.”

Agreed.

However, it is not sufficient to show that somebody is representing the ideas and interests of a foreign government, it must be proved they are being paid by that government to pursue its interests.

Enforcement is wildly selective and varied to the extent you gotta have somebody dead to rights. Or it’s thrown out.

After they spend all their money on lawyers and lose their job.


91 posted on 07/30/2022 12:15:51 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: CodeToad

After the Kremlin...after the Iranian, North Korean, Chinese and Cuban equivalents.


92 posted on 04/23/2023 9:53:43 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Flick Lives

Failure to register as a foreign agent, etc.


93 posted on 04/23/2023 9:57:53 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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