• US names Elena Khusyaynova as "chief accountant" of Russian interference efforts
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https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw99px/the-us-just-named-the-chief-accountant-behind-russias-election-meddling-operation U.S. officials accused a Russian citizen on Friday of being the chief bookkeeper for a sweeping, multimillion-dollar plot to interfere with U.S. elections in both 2016 and 2018, under the broader goal of sowing total chaos throughout American political life. Elena Khusyaynova, 44, is the “chief accountant” for a secret operation dubbed “Project Lakhta,” U.S. officials said, unsealing a criminal complaint against her. “Project Lakhta” is still active and targeting this November’s midterm Congressional elections, the Department of Justice said. “This case serves as a stark reminder to all Americans: Our foreign adversaries continue their efforts to interfere in our democracy,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. Khusyaynova, who lives in St. Petersburg, allegedly stands at the center of a vast network of secretive financial flows aimed at supporting the various components of the operation, which its members refer to as “information warfare,” U.S. officials said. The plot is allegedly funded by notorious Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, dubbed “Putin’s chef” due to his closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his background in the restaurant business. Prigozhin, two of his companies, and 12 others were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in February for allegedly running a large, organized, online operation to interfere with the American political system. The Russian effort allegedly involved the creation of thousands of phony social media personas, who went on to try to inflame hot-button political issues, according to the department. Russian trolls have sought to exploit a lengthy list of the most controversial subjects in the U.S., including virtually anything Americans might want to argue about on Twitter. Khusyaynova “managed the budgeting and payment of expenses associated with social media operations, web content, advertising campaigns, infrastructure, salaries, travel, office rent, furniture, and supplies, and the registration of legal entities used to further Project Lakhta activities,” FBI special agent David Holt said in an affidavit released Friday. Between January 2016 and June 2018, Project Lakhta’s proposed operating budget was over $35 million, the Department of Justice said. Between January and June 2018 alone, the project’s proposed operating budget exceeded $10 million.
But those cost money to fix. The people with the money agreed fucking with the US was more fun. It probably is, too.
Russia wouldn't be laughing as much if the roles were reversed.
They were reversed, in fact we (arguably) did it to them first with the knucklehead that was Boris Yeltsin.
TBH the US has done a bunch of coups in a bunch of places so
I wasn't excusing anyone anywhere. I was just expanding on the guy. The US and Russia are both shitholes with shitty pasts imo.
i commit tax fraud cuz one time i got given overcooked mcnuggets. that makes the tax fraud different, y'see.
Did I literally say anything about it making anyone's actions ok? Where are you people getting this from. The guy said "the US did it first" and the ONLY thing I said was "the US has done it many times in many places" Did I say anywhere that "And therefore it's not that bad" or "which makes it insignificant yolo" I mean am I in a hallucination right now or am I being blamed for something I did not actually say because some people learned about whataboutism and now see it everywhere without actually reading critically?
I know he is banned but I'd just like to point out the wicked irony in complaining about whataboutism in this case, since it's origin is actually from a propaganda tactic used by Russia to explain away it's excesses during the Cold War
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