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Russia accused of clandestine funding of European parties as US conducts major review
The Telegraph ^ | 16 Jan 2016 | Peter Foster and Matthew Holehouse

Posted on 01/17/2016 4:16:43 PM PST by annalex

American intelligence agencies are to conduct a major investigation into how the Kremlin is infiltrating political parties in Europe, it can be revealed.

James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has been instructed by the US Congress to conduct a major review into Russian clandestine funding of European parties over the last decade

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Officials declined to say which parties could come into the probe but it is thought likely to include far-right groups including Jobbik in Hungary, Golden Dawn in Greece, the Northern League in Italy and France's Front National which received a 9m euro (6.9m pound) loan from a Russian bank in 2014.

Other cases of possible Moscow-backed destabilisation being monitored by diplomats includes extensive links in Austria, including a visit by Austrian MPs to Crimea to endorse its annexation, as well as cases of Russian spies discovered using Austrian papers.

Russian influence has also been detected in a referendum in the Netherlands next April over whether to block the EU's closer relations with Ukraine. Sources said arguments deployed in support of the referendum "closely resembled" known Russian propaganda.

Russian desire to influence politics in Britain is also in the ascendant, sources said, as the Kremlin eyes the forthcoming EU referendum and the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader as potential opportunities to weaken Europe.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: frputinfanclub; kgbputin; putinistas4trump; usefulidiots4trump
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To: BobL

Russia also backs European Communist and hard left parties.


21 posted on 01/17/2016 4:47:53 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: annalex
Sort of like the Good Old Days


22 posted on 01/17/2016 4:48:31 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BobL
So Russia is funding parties that want to end Islamic immigration and try to keep Europe as Europe, and that is a bad thing?

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Czech Defense Minister: "Russia is Orchestrating Muslim Invasion of Europe"

Posted By: TRT NEWS October 31, 2015

Prague, Czech Republic - Russia is orchestrating, coordinating, and funding the ongoing invasion of European countries by Muslim, military-age males, the Czech Defense Minister shared with IDNES.cz on October 10th, 2015.

According to Martin Stropnicky, the Defense Minister for the Czech Republic, he was informed by the Hungarian Defense Minister Istvan Simicsko that Russia was financing the busing of military-age Islamic males across the borders of the Balkan nations.

-snip-

Speculation has been rife for some time now that Russian forces have been plotting a ground invasion to retake the former satellite states of the Soviet Union, and eventually capturing the European capitals.

The overwhelming of these nations' borders, social services, and law enforcement mechanisms would destabilize and weaken the internal security controls when Russian military units would make their move.

"The Russian Federation does not desire a unified and cohesive European Union," Stropnicky said in the interview. "I do not envision the current invasion ceasing anytime soon."

As the Russian Federation has modernized its military forces and transformed its military theory to a hybrid combination of special forces, infantry, and airpower, it has made impressive advances in its latest generation tank and fighter jet, both of which purportedly claim to be superior to American counterparts. ..."

http://www.therussianthreat.com/czech-defense-minister-russia-is-orchestrating-muslim-invasion-of-europe/

23 posted on 01/17/2016 4:49:53 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: BobL
Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful
idiot" supporters in the United States?

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24 posted on 01/17/2016 4:53:27 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: annalex

Europe? Look INside the Beltway, why don’t you?


25 posted on 01/17/2016 5:00:43 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: annalex

Wasn’t it His Arrogance’s Chicago crime family that conducted an illegal opposition party operation in Israel during the last election?


26 posted on 01/17/2016 5:02:01 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (It's not an "administration", it's a crime syndicate of liars, thieves, freaks, fools & perverts.)
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To: annalex
Russia is engaged in the task of influencing European thought and sentiment in a manner that aligns with their interests.

They are also funding proxy agents in the dissemination of information which may or may not be accurate, but designed to appeal to the sentiments of a large portion of European residents.

Once disclosed it's not necessarily an issue as long as people know the bias of the advocates.

27 posted on 01/17/2016 5:22:06 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: annalex

Anyone working to undermine the homo-fascist globalists on the march in Europe deserves support.


28 posted on 01/17/2016 5:22:40 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: dfwgator

>>Like we don’t do the same thing.

The Clinton emails have revealed a program to influence internal politics in Israel.


29 posted on 01/17/2016 5:52:45 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

And we’ve tried to pressure the Poles into accepting Sodomy.


30 posted on 01/17/2016 5:53:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Honorary Serb

Of course. Thank you. I singled out Catholics and Protestants because I often participate in those debates as well, but I want to reassure everyone that this ping list is not used for theological disputes.


31 posted on 01/17/2016 7:31:40 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: ETL

Yes.

The objective is to strengthen the opposition. Since the political center of gravity is on moderate, globalist left these days, they support the far right and nationalists. This has nothing to do with actual conviction, just like the USSR had little ideologically in common with the European Left, yet supported them as a destabilizing factor.


32 posted on 01/17/2016 7:35:26 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: tcrlaf

There is nothing clandestine about Soros, and he is not a US government agent.


33 posted on 01/17/2016 7:37:10 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: BobL

No, there is nothing bad in supporting the European right wing. If I had money, I’d support them too. The story here is that the European right (and somewhat our right too) was duped by Putin and his fake conservatism, and that association is hurting them.


34 posted on 01/17/2016 7:39:10 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Of course. Everyone is doing it. The difference here is the false conservative pretense, not the attempt at influencing elections by itself.


35 posted on 01/17/2016 7:41:46 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Mariner
as long as people know the bias

Yes, and also understand that Putin has no genuine interest in conservatism.

36 posted on 01/17/2016 7:42:46 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: mac_truck

No, that is not true. While I am all for undermining the homosexual lobby and globalism, I don’t want honest people in Europe to be smeared by association with this KGB thug.


37 posted on 01/17/2016 7:44:05 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex
Putin has no genuine interest in conservatism.

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD

38 posted on 01/17/2016 10:37:09 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

The truth is that the USSR had its version of conservatism. It was entirely coercive, big-government conservatism: the gays were jailed (along with the political dissidents), abortions were either permitted or punishable by law depending where the nations’s demographics were. The art was said to “belong to the people”, which, of course, practically defined ideological sentimentalism. The Russian Federation’s conservatism is not conservatism of the English enlightenment kind of laissez-faire and capitalism; it is a police state that has not respect for individual rights or justice.


39 posted on 01/17/2016 11:38:22 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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