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Russia is trying to ‘denigrate’ Biden

Russia as the most active source of interference. Evanina also said that a Ukrainian lawmaker who has been in contact with Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, is part of a Russian disinformation effort. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Russia’s activities are reminiscent of its interference in 2016, when Russia trolls bankrolled by an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin used social media platforms to flame political divisions in the United States and spread false information.

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“Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television,” Evanina said.

Russia is targeting Biden as well as “what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establishment,’ ” Evanina said.

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📌Reminder: Gas industry experts say the gas-market reforms pushed by Biden and others in 2014 and 2015 hit Firtash in the wallet, and badly—to the time of hundreds of millions of dollars. 

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Evanina also called out Iran for “trying to divide” Americans and said Tehran “probably will focus on online influence” to foment those divisions.

Hey @cnn & @msnbc you are aiding & abetting hostile foreign gov’ts amplifying divisions/contrasting opines

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“Between China and Russia, only one (Russia) of those two is trying to actively influence the outcome of the 2020 election, full stop,” said a senior U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

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Derkach engages in the pro Russian effort to interfere in our election by smearing Biden, worked closely with Giuliani.
Giuliani Treason Tour to Subvert the 2020 Election & More

In 2004, the Orange Revolution erupted in Ukraine and Lutsenko was one of the faces of street protests. But few know that he brought Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian lawmaker, to the revolution’s winning camp.

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📌Giuliani’s pal Derkach, is a graduate of the FSB School in Moscow, is now known as a front man in promoting the idea of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

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📌Ukraine’s ‘three amigos’
Among those feeding the conspiracy theory are pro-Russian lawmaker Derkach, Oleksandr Dubinsky, a lawmaker loyal to oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, and a former lawmaker Andriy Artemenko, who once was under inv’n for embezzlement.

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📌Giuliani’s position on Firtash suddenly changed when the oligarch became useful to Giuliani. And now his friends are working for Firtash as lawyers, and Giuliani himself uses “evidence” created by Firtash in his plot to defend Trump and attack Biden.

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📌Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani’s actions give Russia great opportunities to advance its interests

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📌Andrii Artemenko, A Ukrainian associate of Rudy Giuliani has hired a business partner of Erik Prince to lobby Washington on his behalf regarding “corruption.” The move became public the same day that Joe Biden became the DEM Party's presumptive nominee.
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Background: Ukraine stripped Artemenko of his citizenship in 2017 and officially expelled him from the State Rada for proposing to rent Crimea to Russia. (Moscow seized and annexed the strategic peninsula in 2014 and Ukraine wants it back.)

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Also this: 2/19/17 A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates: Cohen, Sater, Flynn & Artemenko

📌Artemenko said he had received encouragement for his plans from top aides to Mr. Putin.

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Feb 2017 UKR Peace plan: Michael D. Cohen, delivered the document to Flynn; Felix H. Sater and a Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii V. Artemenko trying to rise in a political opposition movement shaped in part by Manafort developed the plan.
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📌Artemenko said he had received encouragement for his plans from top aides to Mr. Putin.
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Giuliani ‘Caused Shock’ Among Ukrainians for Working with Andrey Artemenko. an Expelled Politician Who Proposed Leasing Crimea to Russia

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Dubinsky's ally, lawmaker Andrii Derkach, also met with Giuliani on and said he invited Giuliani to help set up an “anti-corruption” group in the Ukrainian parliament to investigate "the effectiveness" of US financial aid to Ukraine.

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📌Ukrainian anti-corruption experts say Derkach & Dubinsky have suspicious political motives. They have pushed publicly for a probe into a theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US presidential election to aid Democrats to shift blame away from Russia.

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📌Giuliani visits Budapest, seeking to discredit impeachment

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In 2015 Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office

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CNN's KFile found a February 2016 bipartisan letter signed by several Republican senators inc @robportman, that urged then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to "press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary."
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Giuliani Efforts to Subvert the 2020 Election & More

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