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Italy: A Little Help from Putin

Huge story breaking in Italy. Putin agreed to a request from Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini to covertly finance his Euro election campaign. The plan was to conceal the payment behind an apparently normal business deal. Sound familiar?
https://t.co/9nVuDKXzyq via @espressonline

— David Clark (@David_K_Clark) February 22, 2019

Now it's available in German too. Publisher is an Austrian social-democratic magazine. https://t.co/3uIMXSy7gj

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019

In English. https://t.co/JJ2jE0Ogvb

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019

Evidence Of Russian Hybrid Threat Sent To NATO, UK and EU Parliaments and FBI.

Full statement.

Via @Byline_Media https://t.co/Wa0NThXyzI

— James Patrick 🐐 (@J_amesp) May 19, 2017

Jamming the Discourse

Выбор помощника

This is not explicitely about Europe, but Russian hacks already had been affecting Europe, e.g. interfering with the 2016 Brexit referendum. The European elections are coming. The hacks won’t stop.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-putin-and-the-big-hack

Trump, Putin, and the Big Hack

By David Remnick
January 6, 2017

[…] A declassified report concluded that Putin ordered a campaign of covert operations, from defamatory “fake news” articles about Clinton to the hack itself. […]

[…] Like many nationalist politicians in Europe, Trump has made plain his admiration for Putin, complimenting the Russian leader’s “great control over his country,” while at the same time failing to address the reality that Putin’s regime has instituted wholesale censorship of television, increased repressive measures on ordinary citizens, and unleashed his forces in Ukraine and Syria. (Putin, of course, discounts criticism of his policies as Western hypocrisy and points to everything from the invasion of Iraq, which he opposed, to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he sees as an aggressive act.) […]