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16 Feb, 9 tweets, 3 min read
No surprise that the Russian influence campaign is similar in Australia & the U. S. It's worth watching "Putin’s Patriots: Russian money and influence in Australia" by the ABC

Mitch McConnell's buddy, Oleg Deripaska, is highlighted.
Let's not forget that McConnell enabled sanctions to be lifted from Deripaska's companies, EN+, Rusal, and EuroSibEnergo, even though a bipartisan group of Senators were against it.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch…
Deripaska's Rusal then invested $200M in a proposed KY aluminum mill. McConnell's statement that this had nothing to do with blocking the vote against allowing the Treasury Dept. to lift sanctions is dubious.
courier-journal.com/story/news/202…
Article that ABC published covering the same information that is in the above linked broadcast on YouTube.
abc.net.au/news/2021-02-1…
Information on Russian groups in Europe and North America.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Hard to believe that Florida has a Russian "motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces." /s
miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
"How Moscow and California are funding paramilitary Cossack formations in the United States."
slavicsac.com/2018/05/21/rus…
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