Kremlin Group Employing Ex-Spies Is Viewed Abroad as Propaganda Mill
https://t.co/lZU9dOtmt2 Mark Galeotti, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in Russia’s security affairs
and organized crime, described the Russian institute as fitting "the stereotype some Westerners want to find so well." In a Twitter exchange with Mr. Kovalev, Mr. Galeotti said the institute’s members "also appreciate being regarded as being so important." Mr. Fradkov previously led Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
A follower of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr. Reshetnikov had close ties to senior Orthodox priests in the Balkans and to pro-Russian political groups
that led street protests last year against Montenegro’s NATO membership.
Russian officials, who have repeatedly denied accusations by American intelligence
officials of election interference, called the Reuters report nonsense.
By IVAN NECHEPURENKOAPRIL 20, 2017
MOSCOW — A Kremlin-controlled research organization
that Western critics accuse of subversive propaganda in other countries, including possible election meddling, is known in Russia as a semiretirement refuge for former intelligence officers.
"These guys (average age: 70) couldn’t have possibly game-planned making a sandwich, let alone rigging U.S. elex"
Everyone, please chill.
