Kremlin Group Employing Ex-Spies Is Viewed Abroad as Propaganda Mill<br />https://t.co/lZU9dOtmt2 Mark Galeotti, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in Russia’s security affairs<br />and organized crime, described the Russian institute as fitting "the stereotype some Westerners want to find so well." In a Twitter exchange with Mr. Kovalev, Mr. Galeotti said the institute’s members "also appreciate being regarded as being so important." Mr. Fradkov previously led Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.<br />A follower of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr. Reshetnikov had close ties to senior Orthodox priests in the Balkans and to pro-Russian political groups<br />that led street protests last year against Montenegro’s NATO membership.<br />Russian officials, who have repeatedly denied accusations by American intelligence<br />officials of election interference, called the Reuters report nonsense.<br />By IVAN NECHEPURENKOAPRIL 20, 2017<br />MOSCOW — A Kremlin-controlled research organization<br />that Western critics accuse of subversive propaganda in other countries, including possible election meddling, is known in Russia as a semiretirement refuge for former intelligence officers.<br />"These guys (average age: 70) couldn’t have possibly game-planned making a sandwich, let alone rigging U.S. elex"<br />Everyone, please chill.
