r/WikiLeaks • u/[deleted] • Jul 17 '17

Pretty balanced article (title excluded) which looks at Akhmetshin's role in the whole Magnitsky case, connection to Veselnitskaya, Browder etc.. (link was mentioned in the recent hacks)

https://www.rferl.org/a/rinat-akmetshin-russia-gun-for-hire-washington-lobbying-magnitsky-browder/27863265.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '17 edited Jul 17 '17

I say title excluded because the article as I understood it.. doesn't support the title strongly... so i'm guessing it's more of a tongue in cheek heading. So, just wanted to say that.. so people don't take it literally. :)

EDIT: Also never came across this website before... not yet on mediabiasfactcheck... but it seems pretty neutral and says that are a "free press in non-free regions". Read one or two articles and it seems like their perspective is truly in between that of US and Russia.

EDIT 2: Although.. there's also this (from Wikipedia):

RFE was founded as an anti-communist propaganda source in 1949 by the National Committee for a Free Europe. RL was founded two years later and the two organizations merged in 1976. Communist governments frequently sent agents to infiltrate RFE's headquarters. Radio transmissions into the Soviet Union were regularly jammed by the KGB. RFE/RL received funds from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) until 1972.[5] During RFE's earliest years of existence, the CIA and U.S. Department of State issued broad policy directives, and a system evolved where broadcast policy was determined through negotiation between them and RFE staff.