Leaked emails belong to Sargis Mirzakhanian, a former advisor in the State Duma of Russia.
Ukrainians hacked him and proved how he was secretly curating Russian influence over Ukraine during and after the events of 2014.
Now we see, how he used that expertise approaching EU.
Internal documents claim his "lobbying" organization was “cooperation with leading EU parliamentary parties and individual politicians.
They claimed to have implemented “24 international projects” by the end of 2016.
Some of these they have listed (machine translated) here.
They helped organize yearly Yalta International Economic Forums in the occupied territory of Crimea to whitewash the illegal annexation on an international scale.
A suspected polish spy Mateusz Piskorski aided our organization and handled the 2016 European political delegation.
It is already public that European politicians had their travel and accommodations covered by Russia.
It’s even more revealing to find a document listing additional payments (гонорар) amounting to 21.5k EUR in total for the European political delegation at the event.
Three days after the forum, Piskorski sent Mirzakhanian an early resolution draft from a region of Veneto in Italy.
The resolution recognises Crimea as part of Russia and demands that the Italian government would end the sanction regime against Russia.
The council adopts it.
Through the Italian far right party, Northern League, a similar resolution reaches to other numerous regions of Italy.
In june, Paolo Tosato, an Italian senator also from the Northern League presented a motion in the state parliament, almost identical to the Veneto resolution.
Earlier, Mirzakhanyan had sent his colleague a budget document. Calls it “price tag of the vote”
It lists tens of thousands of euros as payments for a resolution that Tosato would indeed later present in the Italian senate.
A similar document had been drafted for Austria.
In July 2016, Johannes Hübner from Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) also presents a resolution indicated in the plans.
In 2017 Hübner will participate in the Yalta forum in Crimea, organized by our “secret organization”
At the same time, Mirzakhanian and co approach Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) in Cyprus and it’s (then) leader Andros Kypraniou.
Almost three months later another “action plan” had been drafted, Cyprus parliament adopts the resolution through majority vote.
Much has been said about Germany’s AfD’s Russian connections so I won't go into much detail.
For example, current member of German Bundestag, Markus Frohnmaier literally asks for “material” support from our organization for his 2017 parliamentary election campaign.
In October 2016, Kyprianou and Valdegamberi, each meet with organizers of the Yalta forum to speak about “business opportunities” in Crimea and Russia.
During his visit, Valdegamberi is gifted an apartment in a Crimean real estate development!
Yalta forums continue in 2017, 2018 and 2019 while more EU politicians attend.
Ukrainian embassies remind them time and time again that these visits to occupied territories via Russia are seen as illegal by Ukrainian law.
Now we probably know, why they didn't listen...
Sanctions demand unity from the EU and we saw a rise of Russian-friendly far-right (and left) parties coming into power at that exact period.
I find that this influence operation manages to provide context, how Ukraine was failed and why EU politics didn't deter Russia enough.
17. #vatniksoupEE. Tutvustan teile Aleksandr Tšaplõginit, kes on tuntud pikaaegse venekeelse linnameedia peatoimetaja ning keskerakondlasest riigikogu liikmena.
Vaatleme klassikalist inimtüüpi, keda ajab kõige rohkem närvi küsimus “Kellele kuulub Krimm?”
1/16 🧵
Tšaplõgini skandaalide ajalugu ulatub läbi dekaadide.
Aastal 2006 kujutas Tšaplõgin keskerakonna venekeelses trükises toonaseid poliitikuid natsidena, süüdistas neid "vale" ajalookäsitluse levitamises.
Võite aimata, milline on Tšaplõgini "õige" arusaam ajaloost.
2/16
Seejärel kommenteeris Aarne Rannamäe, et Tšaplõgin vallandati AKst omal ajal “Eesti riigi vastu töötamise eest”. Rannamäe oli üllatunud, kui Tšaplõgin valiti juhtima ETVs kakskeelsest saadet „Unetus/Bessonnitsa“.
Sealt lahkus Tšaplõgin, sest kandideeris valimistel.
16. #vatniksoupEE episoodis tutvustan keskerakondlast ja europarlamendi saadikut Jana Toomi.
Toom on Eesti üks vastuoluliseim poliitik, kelle kandideerimine europarlamenti lõhkus Keskerakonna ja kinnistas erakonna taas "vene valijate" parteiks.
Oli see kõik seda väärt?
1/22
Toomi ema Margarita Tšernogorova töötas komparteis ning oli kurikuulsaima ENSV riigijuhi Karl Vaino usaldusisik. Näiteks oli Tšernogorova ülesanne maha suruda laulev revolutsioon.
Hiljem tegutses Savisaare ehitatud Tallinna linnasüsteemis.
2/22
Toom elas abikaasaga Venemaal ja naasis Eestisse 1994; liitus Molodjož Estonii toimetusega. Nõukaajal oli see Leninliku kommunistliku noorsooühingu häälekandja.
Seejärel teised venekeelsed ajalehed, nt Vesti, milles oli osalus ka Oleg Ivanovil!
Truu keskerakondlane Butšenkov on läbinud arvukad linnasüsteemi ametikohad. Praegu Tallina spordikooli juhataja.
Annetanud parteile 6400 eurot.
2/18
Aleksandra Pavlova.
Raua Sauna juhataja Pavlova on aktiivne keskerakondlane ja korduvalt kandideerinud valimistel ning poseerinud poliitikute seltskonnas partei pidudel ja üritustel.
Annetanud parteile 1100 eurot, suure osa vahetult pärast ametisse saamist.
#VatnikSoupEE 14. episoodis tutvustan teile portaali Eesti Eest!, mis on tuntud endise ekrelase @mikecalamus “vaba sõna” veebilehena.
Vaatleme fenomeni, kuidas Putini suuvoodrist Eesti “rahvuslased” teevad koostööd Venemaa mõjuagentidega, lehvitades Eesti lippu.
1/15
USAs resideeruv puhastusteenuste ärimees Mike Calamus on mees, kes impordib Eestisse kõige ehedamat MAGA kultuuri ja Trumpi isikukultust.
Paraku tuleb temaga kaasa ka see osa MAGA jutupunktidest, mis vaenab Ukrainat ja kiidab Putini režiimi.
2/15
EKRE perifeerias on pulbitsemas suur tüli. Hr. Calamus on parteist välja söödud. Erakonna liikmed süüdistavad teda griftimises, sest Calamus kogub raha e-valimiste vastu sõdimiseks, kuigi EKRE seda juba niigi teeb.