DOJ indicts two RT employees for 'covertly funding' U.S. company that advanced Russian interests

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DOJ charged "Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering" in an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York.

Nicholas Ballasy

Sept. 4 2023

The Department of Justice on Wednesday indicted two Russian nationals for spending about $10 million on a "scheme" to advance "Russian government messaging" to U.S. audiences. 

DOJ announced the indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with "conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering" in an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York.

According to the agency, Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are both employees of Russia Today, or RT, a state-controlled media outlet.

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Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are both "at large," DOJ said.

The employees were allegedly "covertly funding" a Tennessee-Based "online content creation company" to create the content to advance Russian interests.

 

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Blaze Media Cuts Ties With Lauren Chen After DOJ Connects Her To Russian Scheme
Daniel Chaitin
Sep 5, 2024

Lauren Chen is no longer with Blaze Media after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused her of misleading other conservative influencers about Russian money her company had been paying them.

Semafor reported on Thursday that Chen had been fired by Blaze Media, where she had contributed videos to Blaze TV, a day after she was referenced in a federal indictment against two Russia Today (RT) employees.

“Lauren Chen was an independent contractor, whose contract has been terminated,” Blaze Media CEO Tyler Cardon said in an email. Semafor also noted Chen did not return a request for comment.

The RT employees, a pair of Russian nationals, were charged with conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the DOJ announced on Wednesday.

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the complex DOJ indictment involving prominent conservative media personalities and an alleged covert Russian propaganda operation, what we know and what we still don't know, what this means for independent media more broadly, and more.

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Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser charged for work with sanctioned Russian TV outlet since 2022

According to the indictment, Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car with a driver as part of the deal for their work.

 Nicholas Ballasy

Sept. 5 2024

The U.S. government charged Dimitri Simes, former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and a Russian-born U.S. citizen, and his wife for allegedly violating "sanctions that were put in place in response to Russia’s illegal aggression in Ukraine," according to the indictment.

Simes, 76, was allegedly doing work for a sanctioned Russian media outlet, Channel One, since June 2022 and laundering the money.

According to the indictment, Simes and his wife Anastasia received more than $1 million dollars and a personal car with a driver as part of the deal for their work.

“These defendants allegedly violated sanctions that were put in place in response to Russia’s illegal aggression in Ukraine,” U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said in a statement on Thursday. “Such violations harm our national security interests — a fact that Dimitri Simes, with the deep experience he gained in national affairs after fleeing the Soviet Union and becoming a U.S. citizen, should have uniquely appreciated.”

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Chris Hayes on the Russian campaign to pay MAGA pundits to spread Putin propaganda—and why all those "gifts" to a Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas aren't that dissimilar.

 

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