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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: NoLibZone

Lol! My thoughts exactly!


61 posted on 07/29/2022 4:05:43 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Houserino

Yep wonder why robinson puts up with it.


62 posted on 07/29/2022 4:06:41 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: FreshPrince

IRL issues, it seems.


63 posted on 07/29/2022 4:10:28 PM PDT by Houserino
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To: Houserino

Irl?


64 posted on 07/29/2022 4:12:10 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Houserino

Ok gotcha google was my friend...


65 posted on 07/29/2022 4:13:07 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Are you a Pole? If so you are edging on treason with respect to Poland.


66 posted on 07/29/2022 4:30:32 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

Had a Russian speaking Ukrainian Grandmother from near Dneiperpetrovsk. In WW2 she ended up making it to the US lines and met my grandfather and came back to the States. I’ve been to her village a few times and know what’s going on in Eastern Ukraine. Speaking the truth is a Revolutionary Act now days. If King Sobieski wouldn’t approve, so what. I serve a greater King who is coming back soon to judge the quick and the dead


67 posted on 07/29/2022 4:49:47 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Fedora

Interesting. Russians were backing the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, too.


68 posted on 07/29/2022 6:29:55 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: FreshPrince

Yep wonder why robinson puts up with it.

It’s called freedom of speech. Something increasingly limited in this country. And that includes speech you may not like. Limiting speech is limiting thought; something at one time only leftists were trying to do, such as in our Ministry of Truth, aka the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) of Homeland Security. (It all sounds so very Orwellian).

“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.
We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.”
— Apple’s “1984” ad


69 posted on 07/29/2022 6:41:31 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: escapefromboston

Agents of a foreign power must register. Otherwise illegal.

“FARA mandates that you must register before acting as an agent of a foreign principal. Under Section 612(a) of FARA, parties must file a registration statement within 10 days of having agreed to act as an agent of a foreign principal. A party may not begin to act as an agent of a foreign principal before registering.”


70 posted on 07/29/2022 7:28:30 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: Mariner

Agents of a foreign power must register. Otherwise illegal.

“FARA mandates that you must register before acting as an agent of a foreign principal. Under Section 612(a) of FARA, parties must file a registration statement within 10 days of having agreed to act as an agent of a foreign principal. A party may not begin to act as an agent of a foreign principal before registering.”


71 posted on 07/29/2022 7:29:53 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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BidenBots are very happy to read about the government cracking down on people who disagree with them.
I wonder what “hot button issues” Americans are being fooled into believing because of evil Russian propaganda?? A man in a dress ISN’T really a woman? That the economy ISN’T doing great? That we SHOULDN’T be pissing away billions of dollars for a corrupt backwards hell hole like Ukraine?


72 posted on 07/29/2022 8:02:42 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

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

“FARA mandates that you must register before acting as an agent of a foreign principal. Under Section 612(a) of FARA, parties must file a registration statement within 10 days of having agreed to act as an agent of a foreign principal. A party may not begin to act as an agent of a foreign principal before registering.” “

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your response. I was TOTALLY UNAWARE


73 posted on 07/29/2022 8:40:25 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com ( )
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To: NoLibZone
Sounds like we need a January 6th like committee to investigate any anti-Ukraine propaganda.
74 posted on 07/29/2022 8:44:44 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: NoLibZone

Quite a number of hijacked accounts. No other way to describe those spouting Putin’s propaganda.


75 posted on 07/29/2022 8:49:41 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Flick Lives

No it is not as it is stated in the constitution


76 posted on 07/29/2022 9:27:05 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: NoLibZone

His charge will be that he is taking away the work from the Democrats...


77 posted on 07/30/2022 12:36:50 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Fedora

Interesting...goes back to Eric Holder and Xavier “missing house server” Beccera’s effort to squeeze more electoral votes out of California for the Dems. That involved the group Yes California, one of those secessionist groups backing Calexit, that was headed by an oddball named Louis Marinelli.


78 posted on 07/30/2022 2:02:40 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Marinelli is connected to Ionov as is the Uhuru House.


79 posted on 07/30/2022 2:04:48 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.


80 posted on 07/30/2022 2:06:17 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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