The Jackson Hinkle X account is a right wing embedded AI or Troll Farm animated account that frequently uses many disinformation tactics described here. As the account become exposed, I recently saw a counter attack where he made it appear that NAFO had created a deepfake Pic attacking democracy,
The original source was a Jihadnik
he modfied the original PIC and baited for #NAFO
Some #NAFO actors failed to verify and reposted the image
Cyprus Confidential exposes how the Cyprus arm of global accounting giant PwC helped Alexey Mordashov, one of Russia’s richest industrialists, transfer a $1.4 billion investment to his life partner in a bid to elude European Union sanctions. The investigation uncovers hidden payments by middlemen close to Mordashov to a famous German journalist to write a book about Putin’s power — a deal that highlights the sophistication of the Russian propaganda machine abroad.
It shows how Petr Aven, one of the key strategists behind Russian financial powerhouse the Alfa Group, used a Cyprus firm to shift $5 million outside of European authorities’ reach just as the EU was announcing sanctions on members of Putin’s inner circle, including him. Reporting based on the financial documents also provides a glimpse into oligarchs’ lavish lifestyles — their private concerts featuring Amy Winehouse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and other famous rock stars; their superyachts; and their priceless art collections.
ICIJ’s analysis of the leaked records found nearly 800 companies and trusts registered in places that allow the rich to hide assets that were owned or controlled by Russians who later came under sanctions, including some who were sanctioned as early as 2014. Those include more than 650 Cyprus companies and trusts.
(Collectors of Trump Administration minutiae will recall the Wilbur Ross, the somnolent Secretary of Commerce, was caught by Forbes engaging in some shadowy transactions involving Russian money and a Cypriot bank.)
The immediate relevance of these revelations is found in their connection to the ongoing Russian assaults on Ukraine.
The product of an eight-month investigation, Cyprus Confidential stories explore Russia’s long-standing hegemony over Cyprus’ deeply intertwined worlds of politics and finance. It explains how the mighty European Union has failed to exert authority over Cyprus, a European Union member state, or to rein in a banking system bloated by illicit money. It illustrates how, as Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Big Four accounting giant PwC’s Cypriot unit helped Russian oligarchs shuffle their riches and undermine Western sanctions designed to cut off Putin’s war funding. As Western nations have increasingly used financial sanctions to block the flow of money that other governments use for hostile purposes, Cyprus became a cloak-and-dagger financial battleground.
“When the Russians came to Cyprus, they brought not only Russian corruption, they brought Russian organized crime, they brought Russian agents of the Russian intelligence services,” says Boris Demash, a Russian longtime resident of Cyprus and critic of Kremlin influence...All told, ICIJ found in these leaked documents nearly 800 companies and trusts registered in secrecy jurisdictions that were owned or controlled by Russians who have been sanctioned since 2014. (Secrecy jurisdictions are countries and territories that provide a low-tax regime and corporate ownership anonymity, limit access to company documents and can be more lenient toward financial crime.)
The analysis showed the professional firms also worked for Russian-controlled companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, the Channel Island of Jersey, the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong and elsewhere. While many of the registered entities are shell companies with no employees or operations, some are subsidiaries of industrial giants — such as steelmaker Evraz, which supplies most of the train rails that Russia uses to transport arms and ammunition to its troops in Ukraine.
There are so many wheels within so many wheels, but there is always the money. Money is what never changes.
Russkiy Mir is both a global strategy and the codification of this strategy into a new religion. Russian propaganda has been leading its people to embrace this concept internally for the last 20 years. Vatniks may be thought of as unquestioned adherents to this doctrine.
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The idea of the "Russian world" was adopted by the Russian administration, and Vladimir Putin decreed the establishment of the government-sponsored Russkiy Mir Foundation in 2007. A number of observers consider the promotion of the "Russian world" concept an element of the revanchist idea of the restoration of Russia or its influence back to the borders of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire.[14][15][16]
Russkiy Mir is an ideology promoted by many in the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.[23] Patriarch Kirill of Moscow also shares this ideology; for the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russkiy Mir is also "a spiritual concept, a reminder that through the baptism of Rus', God consecrated these people to the task of building a Holy Rus."[24]
This is an early draft of research notes, and not to be considered a completed concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world wikipedia Reliability ***
