Trolls on tour: how Kremlin money buys Western journalists

Euromaidan Press ^ | 2015/08/20 | Kentrails Research collective

[AdmSmith]

In the summer of 2014, a photographic exhibition on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria appeared in Berlin and Brussels. Its advertising promised to present a “balanced, truthful picture.” The organizers meticulously disguised their identities. At the same time, they offered huge amounts of money to Western journalists without mentioning the conditions. The Kentrails research collective, an antifascist watchgroup, has researched the exhibition’s background and uncovered a propaganda network in which Russian right-wing extremists collaborate with the Kremlin-associated St. Petersburg “troll factory” in an attempt to impact the Western public.

[AdmSmith]

The Material Evidence project has never been independent and it never pursued the goal of promoting free journalism. It was set up and coordinated by right-wing Moscow intellectuals, some of whom had pertinent military experience. At first, the organizers hired inexperienced civil photographers in Russia and enabled them to go on research trips to Syria and Ukraine.

In this phase, the editors of Zhurnalistskaya Pravda openly acted as its organizers. From the beginning, there were substantial financial resources behind the project, provided by a propaganda agency that can be described as being close to the Kremlin. From May 2014 onward, the organizers attempted to win Western journalists for their cause. The promise of generous financial support in the framework of a competition served as bait.

The backers now hid their identities under the pretext of wanting to protect the lives of journalists, something that did not play a role before. They chose rather little-known Western journalists as figureheads, who wouldn’t ask many questions and accepted the obvious sleaze of the whole thing. Currently, the propaganda project is continued in an altered form. It remains unclear, how many Western journalists accepted offers like these, however it is doubtful that it had a really broad effect.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Every journalist a “Walter Duranty”

[Amagi]

The article references to "Russian right-wing extremists".
I reckon that is in the Euro sense of the word (i.e., Nazi) and not the USofA definition of the word (i.e., conservative).
Reminiscent of The Road to Serfdom and the classical meaning of "liberal".

[Moltke]

The Kentrails research collective, an antifascist watchgroup

So it's commie propaganda against Nazi propaganda? Who to believe?

[AdmSmith]

Putin’s Propaganda TV Lies About Its Popularity

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/putin-s-propaganda-tv-lies-about-ratings.html

[SunkenCiv]

The ones who are already marx' camp followers are bought cheap.

[lavaroise]

infiltrating both the right wing and left wing in Europe, why qualify the Putin machine as right wing?

It is irrelevant.

[AdmSmith]

We should not exclude that a left wing, right wing, communist, fascist, antifascist or Nazi document can be correct. The article is verifiable by the 105 references. Any particular ref to discuss?