Russian network that 'paid European politicians' busted, authorities claim

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

A Russian-backed "propaganda" network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries.

Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians.
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Czech media, citing the countries intelligence agency BIS, reported that politicians from Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary were paid by Voice of Europe in order to influence upcoming elections for the European Parliament.
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"It came for example to light that Russia has approached MEPs, but also paid [them], to promote Russian propaganda here," Mr De Croo told Belgian MPs.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68685604

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('MEP'=Member of the European Parliament. There are elections for the EU Parliament this June.)

[republianmushroom]

1. Huh, Europe has republicans too.

[ffr]

4. 😄

[DFW]

2. The BBC, of all people, should know this is old news

They know perfectly well how Brexit came about. Did they think Putin said, "OK, it worked brilliantly, but that's enough of that"??

[Marcuse]

3. I'm sure it couldn't happen here.

[erronis]

6. But I'm sure McCarthy knew many more - probably himself

And now the whole frigging lot of that party is in putine's pants. Where is that tin-pan despot getting all of his cash (US$) to pay off the (r)epuglicon party?

[Ford_Prefect]

5. So when are Homeland Security and the FBI gonna wake up??????

[Mr. Evil]

7. Does the name Christopher Wray ring a bell?

[NBachers]

8. They've got the republicans to do their heavy lifting on this side of the pond.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. Oh Right, The Entire GOP leadership along with Herr Light Fingers.

[cstanleytech]

10. Over here we call such a thing Fox News.