Thread by @A_Melikishvili

🚨Thread 1/16 @novaya_gazeta did a terrific job compiling list of Putin's useful idiots from West brought to annexed Crimea to validate constitutional referendum to extend Putin's rule in 2020. There were 70 of them. French contingent was largest by far. novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/…

2/16 So who were they? Here's the complete list as per above info graphic: (1) David Kainrath (SPÖ party activist, Austria), (2) Christian Danzmayr (psychotherapist from Vienna), (3) Giedrius Grabauskas (co-chairman of Socialist Front of Lithuania), (4) Aram Hakobyan (Armenia).

3/16 (5) Rafael Hunanyan (chairman of youth center in Armenia), (6) Luiza Sargsyan (Armenian MP), (7) Ahmad Hewad Rahyab (chairman of youth parliament of Afghanistan), (8) Bashir Hatif (director of broadcasting of Afghan TV channel Zhwandoon, (9) Yasar Ahmadzai (Afghanistan).

4/16 (10) Aleksei Dzermant (Belarus), (11) Sergei Lushch (Belarus), (12) Aleksandr Shpakovsky (political commentator, Belarus), (13) Vadim Gigin (dean of faculty of philosophy, Belarusian State University), (14) Martin Raychev Raykov (ex-Bulgaria's central election commission).

5/16 (15) Dorheny Garcia Cayetano (Mexican MP), (16) Vlad-Alexandru Crisan (head of some NGO from Romania), (17) Marius Andrei Marinescu (adviser of Romania-Russia Chamber of Economic Cooperation), (18) Damjan Jovic (Serbia), (19) Aurélia Beigneux (MEP, France).

6/16 (20) Virginie Joron (MEP, France), (21) Jean-Claude Bouchet (French MP), (22) Jean-Lin Lacapelle (MEP, France), (23) Philippe Olivier (MEP, France, married to Marine Le Pen's sister), (24) Hélène Laporte (MEP, France), (25) Jurate Kelpsaite (Lithuania).

7/16 (26) Ruslan Pankratov (NGO Russian World of Latvia), (27) Henrique Domingues (Brazil), (28) Lubomira Gancheva (co-chair, party Alternative of Bulgarian Revival), (29) Vanja Savićević (journalist, Bosnia & Herzegovina), (30) Nikola Savić (Serbian Presidential Administration).

8/16 (31) Draginja Vlk (member of Belgrade city parliament, Serbia), (32) Julie Lechanteux (MEP, France), (33) Yves Pozzo di Borgo (Senate of France), (34) Catherine Griset (MEP, France), (35) Hervé Juvin (MEP, France), (36) Vávra Suk (chief editor of Swedish weekly Nya Tider).

9/16 (37) Yevgeny Korol (Latvia), (38) Tokhtar Bolyssov (executive director of Congress of Youth of Kazakhstan), (39) Federico Arena (Monza city council member, Italy), (40) Paolo Grimoldi (MP, Italy), (41) Volker Tschapke (chairman of Prussian Society Berlin-Brandenburg).

10/16 (42) Gunnar Lindemann (AfD, Berlin city parliament deputy), (43) Janilsbert Velasco (Venezuela), (44) Erik Almqvist (ex-Swedish MP), (45) Jader Rieffe Julianelli Afonso (Brazil), (46) Carlos Alberto Cruz Filho (Brazil), (47) Zoran Đorđević (ex-defense minister, Serbia).

11/16 (48) Nikola Nesic (Kragujevac city parliament deputy, Serbia), (49) Zulfia Ashurova (???), (50) Erkkl Johan Backman ("official representative" of separatist Donetsk People's Republic in Finland), (51) Roxana Christea (assistant to MEP, France).

12/16 (52) Sophie Guil (assistant to MEP, France), (53) Thierry Mariani (MEP, France), (54) Tamara Volokhova (dual Russian and French national, works for right-wing Identity and Democracy faction in European Parliament), (55) Bruno Sommer Catalán (journalist, Chile).

13/16 (56) Omar Simon (ex-president of Ecuador's National Election Council), (57) Igor Damjanovic (journalist, Montenegro), (58) Julia Pikalova (Estonia), (59) Andrea Giannotti (works at MGIMO in Moscow), (60) Mokhammad Tamim Ekhlas (Afghanistan).

14/16 (61) Smaila Raoufou Mousse (employee of Embassy of Benin in Moscow), (62) Valentina Kecman (United Serbia party), (63) Bashir Abbas Samakha (Arab businessman permanently residing in Russia), (64) Stefan Keuter (AfD, MP, Germany), (65) Srđan Perišić (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

15/16 (66) Jeanine Arnoldy-Sich (works for Zhiva charity foundation in Moscow), (67) Angessa Duga Challa (Ethiopia), (68) Danijel Simić (journalist, Serbia), (69) Alexis Parmentier (works for Moscow-based staffing firm Acteon LLC), (70) Pedro Mourinho (Spanish businessman).

16/16 The largest contingent (16 people) came from France. As can be expected, all are members of Marine Le Pen's right-wing party National Rally, including Marine Le Pen's personal assistant Catherine Griset and the party's "purse" Jean-Lin Lacapelle.