According to Michael Weiss, the editor, RFE/RL took over The Interpreter at the end of 2015. I guess Colonel Cassad never got the memo – RB
Why the Russian media provide a platform to the British agents?
Colonel Cassad, Dec 4 2018
John Lough, Moscow, 2016
Base documents on British covert operations in Europe posted “Anonymous” continues to make new revelations. Among the already published documents (as the authors promise not to weaken the intensity of exposures on different countries) showed a trail leading to Dobrokhotov. Why do the Russian media provide a platform to the British agents? The Insider portal, under the leadership of Roman Dobrokhotov, was again distinguished. The publication has long been known for its cooperation with foreign foundations and NGOs engaged in promotion of anti-Russian agenda. But a couple of days ago the card was finally revealed. On its electronic pages made the first head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, John Lough. His material is not surprising for anyone who regularly observes the anti-Russian rhetoric of the Western experts: obsessive positioning of the Crimea as the territory of Ukraine, the explicit recognition that the goal of the West to force Russia to change its sovereign political course, as well as recommendations to fight for the preservation of Russian gas supplies through Ukraine. What is more important, John Lough is not just an expert with the anti-Russian rhetoric. He’s one of those characters that enter the backbone network of the recently disclosed British intelligence MI6 under the code name Integrity Initiative. In the Anonymous documents on the subject, widely dispersed over the Internet, it is clear that Lough has an important position in the structure of the British “cluster” in the network.
Thus, The Insider has finally ceased to conceal that it works to advance the interests of British intelligence. Serious questions to Dobrokhotov and his editorial appeared even after the revelations of Petrov and Bashirova, which hid the intention to harm Russia’s security agencies. The current circumstances force a new look on the affiliation of The Insider with the network project Bellingcat. Of interest is the fact that the anti-disinfo investigations Bellingcat by a strange coincidence, were created again by a British blogger, Eliot Higgins. In 2014, he accused Moscow in the crash of a Malaysian Boeing airliner, and Roman Dobrokhotov the Insider editor picked up every line of this rhetoric. Of course, Britain has at all times recruited agents for anti-Russian activities, but it seems that never before has the work of this agency been so blatant and outright. The question asked in the title of the article is actually rhetorical, as even without these revelations it was known that a number of Russian media outlets were working in the interests of other states. Leaks no more than confirm the obvious. It is therefore quite normal that agents of influence associated with the British secret services provide a platform for propaganda. Comrade Stalin could easily send the entire staff of the Insider to the Gulag on the 58th*, but our country is free and democratic. This program, which involved the same Lough, covertly (or now overtly) aims to fight against Russia and undermine its position in countries near and far abroad.
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*The siloviki have long dreamed of having a clause in the Criminal Code that would allow them to arrest and imprison critics of the regime for their ideas and statements. This is exactly what was done during Josef Stalin’s rule. He created the 58th Clause of the Criminal Code on “counter-revolutionary activity,” which guaranteed that anyone found guilty of “agitation and propaganda” against the Soviet authorities would be sent straight to the gulag. Leonid Brezhnev continued this tradition during his 18 years in power. He created the 70th and 190th clauses of the Criminal Code, concerning “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” and “slanderous fabrications that discredited the Soviet system.” Today, PM Medvedev has created a commission on historical falsification, paying particular attention to the problem of “revising the results of WW2.” Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov went even further, calling for criminal prosecution for anyone “repudiating the results of WW2.” Mironov has targeted those who question the bravery of the Red Army and Soviet people during WW2. If his proposal becomes law, a Russian or foreigner who doubts the “genius” of Stalin as commander-in-chief during WW2 or questions whether the people in the Warsaw Pact nations really “obtained their freedom” could be sent to prison for three to five years. (Source)
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