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Post by ferris1248 on Sept 4, 2024 19:50:22 GMT -5
An indictment unsealed Wednesday alleges a Tennessee content creation company was the tool a team of Russian propagandists used to infiltrate U.S. audiences with Kremlin-backed messaging. Two Russian nationals who worked for Russia Today, a Russian state-controlled media outlet, were indicted on accusations they funneled nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based online content creation company to publish English-language videos on social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube. The company's more than 2,000 videos posted in the last 10 months have been viewed more than 16 million times just on YouTube, according to the indictment. The two suspects are Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. They are charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In response to the allegations, Russia Today responded with ridicule: "Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and RT's interference in the U.S. elections," the media outlet told Reuters. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Russia Today was forced to cease formal operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union, the federal indictment stated. “In response, Russia Today created, in the words of its editor-in-chief, an ‘entire empire of covert projects’ designed to shape public opinion in ‘Western audiences’,” the indictment said. One of those projects was the Tennessee-based online content creation company. The company launched in November 2023. Afanasyeva allegedly posted and directed other staff members of the Tennessee company to post content that aligned with the Russian government's goals. According to the news release, after the March 22 terrorist attack on a Moscow music venue that killed more than 130 people, Afanasyeva asked one of the Tennessee company's founders to blame the attack on Ukraine and the U.S. Around the period beginning in October 2023 through August 2024, Russia Today sent wire transfers to the Tennessee company totaling approximately $9.7 million, which was about 90% of the company's total bank deposits. The wires came from shell companies in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Mauritius and ascribed the payments to the purchase of electronics, according to the news release. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/indictment-russian-propagandists-used-tennessee-content-company-to-push-disinformation/ar-AA1q0yq4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=u531&cvid=9d318b591bcd45548b32302f9430e4dd&ei=14
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Post by luapnor on Sept 4, 2024 20:32:24 GMT -5
Get back to us when mark zuckerberg, execs at google, msnbc, cnn, cbs, 51 federal agents, etc... are arrested for election interference, then ill care what a foriegn country does. The internal enemies are more important..
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Post by Tarponator on Sept 4, 2024 21:46:57 GMT -5
I think he's upset that his handlers were arrested and his funding dried up.
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Post by tonyroma on Sept 4, 2024 22:05:59 GMT -5
Tennessee is not far from North Carolina, and he has a plane🤔
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Sept 4, 2024 22:32:44 GMT -5
Shocked I tell ya. I am shook. I have a hobby of looking for Shell company's operating in teh U.S. usually revolving around air craft of certain types. Now I gotta start looking for Russian Shell company's operating in the U.S. sweet
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Post by biminitwisted on Sept 4, 2024 23:07:35 GMT -5
Tenet Media=BB
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Post by Tarponator on Sept 4, 2024 23:23:16 GMT -5
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Sept 5, 2024 1:47:24 GMT -5
Shocked I tell ya. I am shook. I have a hobby of looking for Shell company's operating in teh U.S. usually revolving around air craft of certain types. Now I gotta start looking for Russian Shell company's operating in the U.S. sweet
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Sept 5, 2024 2:02:31 GMT -5
Years ago around 2009 we were renting out new townhomes. A guy came in and applied for a rental and he was just moving into the area. He had worked In Alabama for an aircraft company and was now working for an aircraft manufacturer in Bedford Park Illinois. After he was in a few months I had to go into the house. He has Picasso paintings hanging on the walls. I found that odd. Too valuable for the area.
Anyway a few more months pass and he moves out in the middle of the night. A few days later I drive past the development and it is swarming with detectives.
From what I gather from the local police department my tenant was a spy. He was working for a foreign government. Oddly the Feds never asked us anything about him. I also noticed that he had plans lying on his kitchen table when I was in the house.
The local police told us that the paintings were his. “Bank”. I don’t know if they ever caught him.
One of the companies I believe he worked for was Sykorski Aircraft?
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Post by ferris1248 on Sept 5, 2024 5:40:56 GMT -5
There are a lot of people who want to overthrow our government. Some of them on this forum.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Sept 5, 2024 7:46:38 GMT -5
Years ago around 2009 we were renting out new townhomes. A guy came in and applied for a rental and he was just moving into the area. He had worked In Alabama for an aircraft company and was now working for an aircraft manufacturer in Bedford Park Illinois. After he was in a few months I had to go into the house. He has Picasso paintings hanging on the walls. I found that odd. Too valuable for the area. Anyway a few more months pass and he moves out in the middle of the night. A few days later I drive past the development and it is swarming with detectives. From what I gather from the local police department my tenant was a spy. He was working for a foreign government. Oddly the Feds never asked us anything about him. I also noticed that he had plans lying on his kitchen table when I was in the house. The local police told us that the paintings were his. “Bank”. I don’t know if they ever caught him. One of the companies I believe he worked for was Sykorski Aircraft? Sikorsky helicopter. Now owned by Lockheed Martin. They are right up the road from me. 😬 They also have a presence in Huntsville probably for Redstone arsenal. That's wild. Russian money Laundering and "Art" go hand in hand. He was probably supplying them with technical infi about aircraft would be my guess. Unless he was up in Huntsville and then there is no telling what he was privy to. Redstone is an interesting place.
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Post by johngalt on Sept 5, 2024 7:50:36 GMT -5
There are a lot of people who want to overthrow our government. Some of them on this forum. Names.
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Post by johngalt on Sept 5, 2024 7:51:21 GMT -5
Am I the only one here that remembers the Cold War?
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Sept 5, 2024 7:51:43 GMT -5
It’s been a long time but I seem to remember Huntsville on his rental application.
Weird how he kind of knew that they were coming for him. Moving out at night only a few days before they showed up.
I hope they caught him. He needed a long Federal vacation
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Sept 5, 2024 7:54:30 GMT -5
It’s been a long time but I seem to remember Huntsville on his rental application. Weird how he kind of knew that they were coming for him. Moving out at night only a few days before they showed up. I hope they caught him. He needed a long Federal vacation Ig he's a foreign asset prison. If he's a U.S. citizen and foreign asset.....firing squad
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