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🇨🇾 NEW: Vladimir Putin scored a PR coup in 2016 when Cyprus’s parliament called for removing EU sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea.
Now, we reveal a Kremlin-linked group helped plan the resolution in an EU-wide campaign.
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Now, we reveal a Kremlin-linked group helped plan the resolution in an EU-wide campaign.
#KremlinConnection
occrp.org/en/investigati…
🇷🇺 Run by Russian parliamentary staffer Sargis Mirzakhanian, the International Agency for Current Policy arranged payments across Europe in order to push pro-Russian motions.
What happened in Cyprus is a striking example of its success.
What happened in Cyprus is a striking example of its success.
In April 2016, Mirzakhanian emailed a draft resolution against the EU sanctions - and a plan to get it passed in Cyprus.
By June, he received another draft back, signed by the opposition AKEL party with only minor changes.
In July, the motion passed. (Docs available in story).
By June, he received another draft back, signed by the opposition AKEL party with only minor changes.
In July, the motion passed. (Docs available in story).
BREAKING: Leaked emails reveal that a Kremlin-linked lobbying group offered payments to several European politicians to promote pro-Russia policies.
Legitimizing the annexation of Crimea being chief among them.
Here’s what we found👇
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Legitimizing the annexation of Crimea being chief among them.
Here’s what we found👇
#KremlinConnection
occrp.org/en/investigati…
The emails belong to Russian parliamentary staffer Sargis Mirzakhanian, who played a key role in the International Agency for Current Policy, which arranged payments to politicians in the EU parliament as well as in individual European countries.
In one email, Mirzakhanian referred to the money dedicated to influencing politicians from 🇮🇹 Italy and 🇦🇹Austria as the “price of the vote”after both politicians had tabled resolutions in their respective legislatures against Russian sanctions over Crimea.
