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@AricToler
Sep 4 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.

There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...


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Indictment: justice.gov/d9/2024-09/u.s…
And the Canadian entity that owns Tenet Media

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The indictment specifies that two of the people who work for this Tennessee company (Tenet) were "deceived" -- meaning they didn't know that the Russian government was running an influence op.

Dave Rubin has 2.4 million subscribers and Tim Pool has 1.37 million. Image
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Benny Johnson also has almost 2.4m, but they apparently rounded down from 1.37m --> 1.3m with Tim Pool so I figured Rubin's 2.44m --> 2.4m was the same. Image
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Some more legwork in this thread on identifying the other unnamed (and very lightly masked) "commentators" in the indictment

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Jun 6, 2023
A bit of a wild story yesterday out of Belgorod.

The RDK claimed to have killed a pretty senior Russian officer during their operation in Belgorod (Novaya Tavolzhanka), and shared his ID card. His name is Andrei Stesyev.

t.me/russvolcorps/5… Image
Soon after, the Svoboda Rossii Legion (Freedom to Russia) shared additional pages of his ID documents, along with a couple of drone shots showing a body lying in the grass, claiming it was Stesyev.

(Join together the t dot me for the link)

https://t [.] me/legionoffreedom/863
Turns out, they probably really did kill him. The RDK fighters got into a firefight with Stesyev (and presumably others) in Novaya Tavolzhanka. I geolocated the footage showing the body to the southern part of the town, 1.5km from the border.

Geolocation below. ImageImageImageImage
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Jun 6, 2023
The tweets are pretty specific, saying that the explosion happened at 2:35am. However, nothing from local channels yet.
t.me/romanov_92/388…
This was two hours ago, so the fact that it's news isolated to just some RU milbloggers makes it a bit tough to believe
Or maybe not
t.me/milinfolive/10…
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Jun 5, 2023
Was trying to figure out why the Polish Volunteer Corps pixelated out part of this BTR in a video recently published. Then I realized: oooh yeah of course.

(See next tweet for pixelation reveal)
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Context: Skachkov is an RDK member who went on the May Belgorod incursion. The video the PDK posted apparently shows the same BTR as the one Skachkov posed in front of.
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Jun 5, 2023
🚨 Geraldo Rivera's boot has been found in the Baltic Sea 🚨
But really, the Grayzone doing an underwater expedition in the Baltic Sea and touting the discovery of an old boot as breathtaking truthtelling journalism feels like a fever dream.
Kit Klarenberg on the prowl across England's docks for a one-booted man
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May 25, 2023
An apparent RDK fighter (or proxy/friend?) is selling two 'souvenirs' he got in Belgorod oblast this week. He's also selling some other choice items.
Auctions go back quite a few years, and include a Russian "trophy" knife he claims to have taken in Peski (Donetsk oblast) in 2015 ImageImageImageImage
The same KKK patch being sold by this user was worn by Aleksandr Skachkov in Belgorod, an RDK fighter. He was previously arrested by the SBU for selling translated copies of the Christchurch shooter's manifesto.
This is Aleksandr Skachkov in at the Grayvoron checkpoint in Belgorod, for example. Pretty distinct tattoo on his right arm, not sure why he's Panda-izing his face when it's so obvious. ImageImage
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May 23, 2023
Checking out some new 50cm imagery on Planet of Belgorod now. This was likely caused one way or the other from the mini-invasion, located at 50.457124, 35.609863 (google.com/maps/place/50%…) Image
Nothing I can notice at the city administration building of Grayvoron, which was allegedly hit by a shell dropped by a Ukrainian drone.
google.com/maps/@50.48522… ImageImage
NASA FIRMS shows heat detection near the border checkpoint at Grayvoron, near where the Russian MoD shelled alleged Ukrainian positions.
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;l… Image
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